Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 2 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 3 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 4 | One major factor acted to contain the divisive tendencies inherent in the prevailing group orientation . |
| 5 | A number planned to use the Mental Illness Specific Grant to help to operationalize care programming . |
| 6 | The new Type 22s , ordered to replace the sunken Type 42s and Type 21 frigates , will carry the Vickers gun . |
| 7 | After Labour won the general election of 1964 and 1966 , the Conservatives were on the defensive , until the consequences following on the deflation of July 1966 began to make the Labour Government unpopular . |
| 8 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
| 9 | Yugoslavia sought to reconcile the economic interest involved in supporting a foreign navy with the political injunction of the non-aligned world against granting base rights to foreign powers . |
| 10 | Will he pass on the thanks of those of us who went to see the Prime Minister two weeks ago to ask for his help in the matter ? |
| 11 | I went to see the old man this morning with Angela Foley to break the news to him . |
| 12 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 13 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 14 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 15 | We chose to utilize the isolated DNA binding domain of the VZV 140k protein for these analyses due to the difficulties encountered in a previous attempt to detect sequence-specific DNA binding by the intact 140k polypeptide ( 39 ) . |
| 16 | The Lukac brothers spearheaded a second-period revival to take their team to 8-6 at the end of the second but Hawks managed to take the final period 3-1 and tie the game 9-9 . |
| 17 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 18 | Naturally , however , Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser preferred to use the so-called Hauser-Ernst homogeneous Hilbert problem approach ( see also Ernst 1988 ) . |
| 19 | The Sejm ( i ) rejected his proposed constitutional changes ; ( ii ) voted to send the presidential draft electoral law to the Constitutional Commission for further examination ; ( iii ) rejected the date of May 26 which he had proposed for the parliamentary elections ; and ( iv ) instead approved the holding of parliamentary elections by Oct. 31 , 1991 . |
| 20 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 21 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 22 | The London International Stock Exchange last week voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project . |
| 23 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 24 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 25 | In private , some of Labour 's medicine men and some MPs were furious the leadership had n't gone tooth and claw for the Conservatives ; that in their determination to look and play the part of responsible government , they neglected to hammer the real Government responsible for real problems . |
| 26 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 27 | Secondly , individuals who were controlling directors were no longer permitted to resign just before retirement to boost their salary but instead had to use the three year average method of calculation . |
| 28 | Mr Fullerton said MOE , which designs and manufactures steel desks and filing cabinets , hoped to have the new site ready for occupation by the end of November . |
| 29 | A subsequent vote in the Senate failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a presidential veto . |
| 30 | These wars were inspired by a belief that Louis XIV of France hoped to become the overlord of Europe , and that he wanted to restore the Catholic James II or his descendants to the throne . |