Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 2 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 3 | Imagine what would happen if Britain sought to remain outside a single currency and European monetary union . |
| 4 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 5 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 6 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 7 | Experts met in Spain in September to discuss the problem but delegates failed to agree on a possible cause . |
| 8 | A breakthrough to end the 11-year civil war in El Salvador seemed unlikely , as representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas and the government failed to agree on a common plan covering reform of the US-backed armed forces , arrangements for a ceasefire , and constitutional changes to enable the FMLN to disarm and participate in democratic politics [ see p. 38231 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ] . |
| 9 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 10 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 11 | The mystic person who singularly failed to appear during a 20-year span of abuse was my doctor . |
| 12 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 13 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 14 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 15 | Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty . |
| 16 | I rose to preach with a jolly remark about there being an official opposition , ‘ but perhaps it will be going for a walk in a little while ’ . |
| 17 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 18 | The whore sniffed and tried to walk with a ladylike gait ; she seemed a little drunk and occasionally stopped to pause for breath . |
| 19 | But colleague Dr Susan Williams declared : ‘ He is a first-class doctor who stopped to help as a Good Samaritan . ’ |
| 20 | In a White Paper ( Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and the Reform of the Rating System , 1983 ) blame for this was placed mainly on excessive spending by a small number of authorities , which the government proposed to curtail by a new control mechanism : rate-capping . |
| 21 | A comedy of errors as Collegians tried to clear from a defensive line out presented McCall with the simplest of scores . |
| 22 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 23 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 24 | Marshall referred to education' as a national investment' and supported technical education in particular as a means of training the specialists in industry . |
| 25 | The family he proposed to house within a single room ( Fig. 27a ) could scarcely have cultivated the ‘ habit of neatness , and attention to cleanliness ’ which , he suggests , should do much to form ‘ the dispositions of the Labouring Class ’ . |
| 26 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 27 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 28 | " Are you — he tried to speak as a real writer would one of my regular readers ? " |
| 29 | tried to cuddle into a foetal position |
| 30 | According to a Rwandan radio report , the Republican Democratic Party ( MDR ) , the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party agreed to participate in a transitional government if certain commitments were incorporated in its brief . |