Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
| 2 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 3 | The upshot was that the Liberals promised to support the Labour government in the House by their votes . |
| 4 | Jill , charged to find the oldest building in town , located one of the few pre-earthquake buildings in downtown Jackson Square , part of the financial district . |
| 5 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 6 | Every sense strained to hear the low-voiced conversation in the adjacent chapel . |
| 7 | US actions in Somalia tried to storm the American embassy in London last night . |
| 8 | On March 29th , the French tried to replug the menacing hole in their lines at Bois d'Avocourt . |
| 9 | Posing as tax-payers engaged in writing , film-making or oddball societies , we tried to enlist the honourable members in activities and causes close to their hearts . |
| 10 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 11 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 12 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 13 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 14 | Looking upwards , she saw that no window had yet been built into the end wall at the top of the stairs , and this lack of light helped to emphasize the Stygian gloom in which she stood . |
| 15 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 16 | He promised to release the empty flats in his row of Chelsea houses tomorrow if guaranteed repossession within 48 hours by some sort of contract . |
| 17 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 18 | Robyn felt her mouth dry , tried to ignore the sudden lurch in the pit of her stomach as his fingers scorched her skin . |
| 19 | In municipal elections held in 55 communes and in provincial elections in La Spezia ( Liguria ) on Dec. 14-15 the federalist Northern League rose to become the largest party in northern Italy , and increased its support in central Italy , at the expense of the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties , whose support was halved in the north . |
| 20 | Linh , along with President of the Council of State and outgoing politburo member Vo Chi Cong and veteran leader Pham Van Dong , agreed to serve the central committee in an advisory role . |
| 21 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 22 | They failed to reflect the political spectrum in its entirety and they tended to exclude or denigrate all those who strayed outside the centre of the political stage . |
| 23 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 24 | The elephant not only pipped dolphin and tiger to the post to emerge as overall winner , but also seemed to attract the greatest loyalty in voters . |
| 25 | This conception , however , dissolved in his mind as , towards the end of his life , he came to accept the prevalent belief in the everyday occurrence of miracles . |
| 26 | In 1878 Irish Wesleyan Methodists and Irish Primitive Methodists united to form the Methodist Church in Ireland . |
| 27 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 28 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 29 | In July 1937 , when the war was one year old , the Republicans briefly seemed to gain the upper hand in an offensive they launched on the Madrid front , at a village called Brunete ; but the Nationalists rallied and the Republicans were unable to chalk up even a partial victory . |
| 30 | Its composer , the Argentinian Alejandro Mayol , sought to express the Christian faith in a language which everyone could understand — at all levels of society . |