Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BMA were criticized for their intransigence and the pharmaceutical industry 's advertising was criticized for seeking to frighten patients . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Felipe González was criticized for attempting to conceal the level of Spanish involvement in the war . |
| 3 | On Dec. 3 Helmut Haussmann resigned as ( FDP ) Economics Minister , having been widely criticized for failing to give a lead on the economic aspects of unification . |
| 4 | Also discussed in Minsk were the issue of a joint interstate television company ( the ex-Soviet Ostankino company being sharply criticized for failing to draft a charter , as had been agreed at the May Tashkent summit — see p. 38922 ) , transport , health , the environment and division of ex-Soviet property . |
| 5 | More recently he was criticized for failing to exploit possibilities created by the improvement in church-state relations at the time of the Russian Orthodox millennium in 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , although this was partly excused by commentators on the grounds of his serious ill health . |
| 6 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 7 | It was also criticized for failing to anticipate the catastrophe . |
| 8 | Price was thought to have influenced the decision on April 21 by Guyana 's President Desmond Hoyte to appoint Rudolph Collins , a former ambassador to Venezuela , to chair the electoral commission , in place of Sir Harold Bollers , who had been strongly criticized for failing to assert the commission 's independence from the ruling People 's National Congress . |
| 9 | A path of accommodation with the Soviet authorities was widely assessed as having ensured his rise through the Church hierarchy from 1949 ; as Patriarch he was criticized for failing to challenge the repressive state regulations governing church affairs and to defend persecuted believers . |
| 10 | The main opposition party , however , the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike , was criticized for failing to build greater unity with the smaller Lanka Sama Samaja party ( LSSP ) , the Communist Party , the Nava Sama Samaja party ( NSSP ) and the Bahejana Nidahas Pakshaya ( BNP ) led by Mrs. Bandaranaike 's daughter Chandrika Kumaranatunge . |
| 11 | His predecessor , Anatoly Stroikin , was criticized for failing to prevent the taking of hostages on April 21 . |
| 12 | The House of Commons select committee on trade and industry published a report on the House of Fraser acquisition on May 23 , 1990 , in which the DTI was criticized for failing to exercise its role in the regulation and supervision of business . |
| 13 | Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient . |
| 14 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 15 | The first two were rewarded for their success and the third was punished for failing to exercise his stewardship in a proper manner . |
| 16 | Ministers are rebuked for failing to face House on rise |
| 17 | ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years . |
| 18 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 19 | Bob Redman and Peter Stanborough , both members of printing union the National Graphical Association , were to ask for reinstatement at an industrial tribunal in Reading this morning after being sacked for refusing to sign new contracts . |
| 20 | A SHOPWORKER who claimed she was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays won a claim for unfair dismissal at a Hull industrial tribunal yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't spoonfeed you here ’ was one of the less excusable reasons given for declining to help floundering students . |
| 22 | The combined maps issued by the three tramway companies used a symbol to indicate through services , under the description ‘ Services are operated ’ , and the intending passenger might have been forgiven for expecting to see Company 's cars working on them . |
| 23 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 24 | So when politicians and farmers tell us there 's absolutely no risk , you could be forgiven for wanting to make up your own mind — especially if you 've got children . |
| 25 | Hitcham , furthermore , which contained only seven taxpayers , was so insignificant a place it was surveyed jointly with Dorney , and we can readily imagine the constable becoming confused and forgetting to insert the name of the juvenile lord of the smaller township ; anyone subsequently checking the certificate could be forgiven for failing to realise that the first line referred to the lord of Dorney only . |
| 26 | McGrath , returning after being forgiven for failing to turn up for the Irish trek to Albania two weeks ago , rewarded Jack Charlton 's faith in him with a goal and a swagger as though he had never been away . |
| 27 | Well I got ta write to inform her . |
| 28 | You see what I mean about having to keep up with things . |
| 29 | Sarah was watching the chimneysweeps with a rapt expression , and holding the hands of two small boys , while one a bit older had to be reprimanded for trying to climb a tree . |
| 30 | Police are often delayed through having to seek permission to enter places such as shopping malls , and the law needs to be enforced in pubs and clubs . |