Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British attempt in 1986 failed to make any significant impression on the route , despite much larger resources , emphasising the scale of the French achievement . |
| 2 | If any Government fails to meet either of these conditions then it will be replaced by another expected to meet both . |
| 3 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 4 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 5 | This involved rushing several buckets of water into his improvised shelter . |
| 6 | This involved co-ordinating all the various stalls , publicizing the event , accounting for the money and persuading numerous people to become volunteers . ’ |
| 7 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 8 | Pending the design of the new system , a ‘ fix ’ was put in place whereby the data was manually calculated and transmitted — but this meant using another unreliable system ! |
| 9 | Lenin 's theme in this early period was the need to install an efficient system of accounting and control , and to bring all factories and mines back to full production as soon as possible , even if this meant employing former owners and managers at high salaries . |
| 10 | The roads were usually wide enough for two vehicles to pass without slowing down , but in dry weather this meant enveloping each other in a cloud of choking lava dust . |
| 11 | This meant putting more manpower — three extra BP people , three extra processors from seismic contractor Geco-Prakla — and a lot more computer hardware on the boat , says Nunn . |
| 12 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 13 | Only 22 managed to meet this date , but by 1955 a good submission record meant that about half the country 's plans had been approved , and the bulk by the end of the decade . |
| 14 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 15 | Although this appeared to repeat some of the work already undertaken by the FAOR team , because the analysts were now concerned with documenting the user requirements at a detailed level it was necessary to focus the questions more precisely and , taking account of the proposed technical solutions , to consider with the interviewees the potential advantages of information being indexed and stored by electronic means . |
| 16 | But Marine had to battle all the way against a Gainsborough side that won praise from College Road boss Roly Howard . |
| 17 | This had caused such abnormal interest that the next time he was asked he said that he worked in a garage . |
| 18 | In Wadhurst , ‘ within the wood ’ , this had reached such a pitch that ten of the largest farmers were listed as unfree men , leasing their land from others ; there was also a substantial number of women farmers , such as Agnes at Wyk . |
| 19 | This had led some observers , notably Robertson , Briggs and Goodchild ( 1982 ) , to cast doubt upon the idea of a simple linear progression through the sectors . |
| 20 | This had continued all night . |
| 21 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 22 | This had started this morning before erm Rosie and Jim . |
| 23 | This had helped some to become more confident and others to feel less lonely . |
| 24 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 25 | Almost half had used some training units , but from our observations it was clear that the guidelines for use were rarely followed closely . |
| 26 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 27 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 28 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 29 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 30 | These changes in our institution of police can bring little satisfaction to those who had come to believe that the British had found some special formula for dealing with control of public protest . |