Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE WIFE of a man accused of committing three sex attacks in 12 hours agreed to give evidence as a Crown witness at his trial at a Perth High Court sitting yesterday . |
| 2 | Hunting would therefore have less of an impact on goat populations if hunters avoided killing females . |
| 3 | Fashion moved out , and the big houses became rooming joints . |
| 4 | Its results were meagre ; the Russians agreed to consider Eisenhower 's " open skies " proposal for aerial inspection of military installations ( only to reject it later ) , and there was some talk of a new spirit in international affairs — the " spirit of Geneva " . |
| 5 | Hoare found buyers for nearly half the stake on Tuesday — but institutions agreed to take shares only on condition that all could be placed . |
| 6 | Arguments against a role for a G protein-linked mechanism for generating InsP 3 have come from experiments in which phorbol esters failed to block fertilization but could inhibit the events activated by injecting GTP- γ S into hamster eggs . |
| 7 | When industrial interest groups failed to get help , they took political action against the military . |
| 8 | After the groups failed to produce drafts , Dunkel put forward a working paper defining principles on which new rules might be based , but avoiding numbers . |
| 9 | Earlier this week government research was published showing that 32 out of 102 ovens failed to heat food uniformly to at least 70C , the temperature necessary to kill listeria , salmonella and other food poisoning bacteria . |
| 10 | Other Evenki clans sought to avoid subjection to the Russians by moving north of the Angara , and some of these also crossed the Yenisei into Nenets territory . |
| 11 | The ever-present possibility of bombs made buying presents even jollier . |
| 12 | All the cases were filed in one of the 11 special courts empowered to try politicians and bar them from politics for up to seven years . |
| 13 | The authorities failed to regain control of the situation . |
| 14 | These revenue investment proposals failed to attract support in the context of the proposed accounting standard , and the ASB therefore concluded that they should not be pursued by that means . |
| 15 | The introduction of a national health care system had been a major plank in Carter 's programme in 1976 , but his proposals failed to become law . |
| 16 | In the Southern Band the number of cattle-stealing cases reported to the courts failed to keep pace with the increase in population , but there was no general decline at this time . |
| 17 | The authorities sought to suppress cattle stealing by punishing thieves and regulating the ownership of cattle . |
| 18 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 19 | Yesterday creditors agreed to appoint John Readman , of chartered accountants Ernst & Young , as liquidator . |
| 20 | A Letter of Licence , by which creditors agreed to postpone claims , brought only temporary respite and did not remove the evil day . |
| 21 | The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort . |
| 22 | The food-sellers were doing a roaring trade in spiced sausages and , beside them , water-sellers with great buckets slung round their necks sold cooling drinks to soothe the mouths of those who chewed the hot , spicy meat . |
| 23 | The second occasion was in the mid-1980s when the Bank had to step in after banks and discount houses failed to complete London Clear , a project to automate settlements and transactions in the money markets . |
| 24 | At first , Stalin refused to believe the news of the attack and that enabled the German forces to achieve many objectives , Despite their rapid advance , however , the Germans failed to reach Moscow , partly because the Russians indulged in a ‘ scorched earth ’ policy , and on 6th . |
| 25 | By and large , despite the many attempts made to persuade Americans that FI is the top of motor sport , the Yanks remain unconvinced . |
| 26 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 27 | They approached the bed ; their teeth made gnashing sounds . |
| 28 | Teeth gritted expecting disaster . |
| 29 | Finance houses sought to promote business in a responsible manner , recognizing that only in that way would they be promoting profitable business . |
| 30 | The initial investigations involved analysing samples of handwriting and calculating the effectiveness of the word length and shape information , assuming that such information were available . |