Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They failed to catch the popular imagination in the way the inhabitants of Coronation Street , Albert Square and Ramsay Street have done . |
| 4 | Although the Radburn layouts were safer than earlier designs , they failed to solve the triangular conflict between safety , environmental attractiveness and access . |
| 5 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 6 | One sympathized , but how they failed to recognize the extraordinary quality of the work will always be beyond me . |
| 7 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 8 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , of Durham county council , told members that they planned to end the unnecessary wait . |
| 9 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 10 | After April they intend to use the standard discharge procedures that have already been piloted with one general practice , as mentioned above . |
| 11 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 12 | I do n't see them very much , they tend to use the back door , and sort of come out and then go down |
| 13 | Eliciting these principles from participants is complex , because they tend to give the prioritized principles . |
| 14 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 15 | We make relatively little use of the simpler DTP systems because they tend to obscure the logical/physical distinction and encourage students to invent design elements on a case-by-case basis as they create a document , leading to incoherent and inflexible document structures . |
| 16 | They tend to assert the overwhelming desire for cognitive order , and thus offer an unrealistically cohesive model of cognition itself which ignores the problems of ideology and framing . |
| 17 | They tend to identify the common good with the interests , real or imagined , of their supporters . |
| 18 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 19 | In the Indian Ocean basin they sought to rally the non-aligned states against existing blocs being activated or the composition and sphere , of responsibility of these blocs being broadened . |
| 20 | The objectives of PAR were rather too ambitious , for essentially they sought to review the major policies of government . |
| 21 | First , the constitutional authorities want to limit the sovereignty of Parliament by law ; second , they want to reinvigorate the various checks on the power of a democratically elected government through changes designed to bolster a more " balanced " constitution ; and third , they look to the checks implicit in a genuine revival of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 22 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 23 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 24 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 25 | They want to regain the natural environments . |
| 26 | MPs will start debating these issues on the 17 of this month , two weeks before members of the old party have to make up their minds about whether they want to join the new ship . |
| 27 | If they want to climb the sheer slope , an I test ( Scale Sheer Surface +10 ) allows a character to head upwards D6+2 feet during the round ( only D6 for a Dwarf and D4 for a Halfling ) . |
| 28 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 29 | are only ten percent so why are you try why are you saying they want to get the rich peasants when the , the poor peasants comprise seventy percent of the peasant population ? |
| 30 | Either they want to conceal the real cause of death or they 're still alive . ’ |