Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 2 | The budget sought spending increases for the departments of Education , Justice , State , Energy , Treasury , and Veterans ' Affairs . |
| 3 | The motor industry bucked the trend with figures showing that the halving of car tax in the Budget failed to stimulate sales last month . |
| 4 | The defence sought to discredit Gravano as a " serial killer " and habitual liar who was seeking to evade life imprisonment by striking a deal with the authorities . |
| 5 | Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown . |
| 6 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 7 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 8 | In 1787 the prince promised the king not to exceed his income and , trusting this promise , Parliament agreed to pay £190,000 of debt . |
| 9 | On 14 December 1557 , parliament agreed to send commissioners to France to negotiate the marriage , while making a sideways nod to Châtelherault 's shrill demand that this should not prejudice his right as heir presumptive . |
| 10 | Open gun positions were located in the bow , midships and extreme tail and provision made to carry bombs beneath the lower wings . |
| 11 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 12 | But in a barnstorming finish the former England international striker pounced to give Rangers a deserved draw . |
| 13 | But in a barnstorming finish the former England international striker pounced to give Rangers a deserved draw . |
| 14 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 15 | Edis was , I learned , the only woman photographer commissioned to take pictures of the Western Front battlefields ( of women specifically ) , though other women who were out there anyway ( like Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm ) took pictures of themselves and their lives out there . |
| 16 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 17 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 18 | where the retailer failed to insure automobiles which had been repossessed after the consumer had missed payments on the credit arrangements provided by a finance company . |
| 19 | Bakufu and daimyo administrations found themselves in increasing economic difficulties as their income failed to keep pace with rising expectations of consumer expenditure and other demands on their budget . |
| 20 | b ) Branch Produced Mailing Lists |
| 21 | THE continental Europe recession failed to prevent property and shipping group P&O steaming full ahead in the first six months of the year , pushing interim profits up to £291.6m from £151.2m last time . |
| 22 | Labour unrest linked to political discontent led to strike calls in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 23 | And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker . |
| 24 | In support of this argument , an increase in both components was seen during PTP , whereas the isolated NMDA receptor-mediated component failed to exhibit LTP . |
| 25 | The case made harrowing reading , but far worse was the account of how passers-by behaved . |
| 26 | By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama . |
| 27 | Ten students at Kent University admitted taking part in a £400,000 telephone fraud . |
| 28 | The same writer recommended giving glasshouse room to a few hedgehogs , ideal for keeping down woodlice . |
| 29 | I am satisfied that the fact that the parties have by contract agreed to pay costs on a solicitor/client basis is a factor to be taken into account by me in the exercise of my discretion . |
| 30 | Again the clerk failed to follow Mr. Tucker 's instructions . |