Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 2 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 3 | However , it was Mr Deerey who resigned after his calls failed to gain the support of the local YC executive , which included Chalmers 's brother and brother-in-law . |
| 4 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 5 | In this and other chapters we have discussed the various LEA-based and school-based strategies devised to secure the implementation of PNP . |
| 6 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 7 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 8 | This could , of course , occur even if the Member States failed to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 9 | But these extensive discussions failed to provide a common area of agreement , mainly because of divergent national interests and unfavourable economic developments such as inflation , recession , and the oil crisis . |
| 10 | FOR a nation which fire-bombed Hamburg and destroyed Dresden to complain when the Germans planned to celebrate the anniversary of the V2 rocket is ridiculous . |
| 11 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 12 | The capital fund ( £140 ) was deployed to help offset the deficit , and plans made to expect a further £300 deficit in 1916 . |
| 13 | In some sense this mental exploration can be seen as coextensive with the work of the other " social explorers " who , continuing a tradition from Victorian times sought to investigate the " dark continent " or " jungles " of working-class life . |
| 14 | At the 12th annual summit meeting of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference ( SADCC ) in Windhoek , Namibia , on Aug. 17 , leaders of the 10 member states agreed to transform the organization into the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) . |
| 15 | It is certainly a long way from the crowds cheering at John F. Kennedy 's ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ’ speech in front of the Berlin Wall in 1962 to the communiqué issued after Honecker 's visit to West Germany in 1987 : ‘ both states agreed to respect the sovereignty and independence of each other in both domestic and foreign matters ’ . |
| 16 | The Efta states agreed to make a contribution to the Community budget in return for participation in the market . |
| 17 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 18 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 19 | One way contemporaries sought to curtail the influence of the Court was by securing free and frequent Parliamentary elections , and therefore electoral reform became a key element to the Country platform . |
| 20 | But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham . |
| 21 | After overnight negotiations the authorities agreed to refuel the plane and let it fly to Pakistan on condition that the remaining 38 passengers and crew would be released on arrival . |
| 22 | With hindsight it is clear that left-wing opponents planned to disrupt the meeting , for over 1,000 anti-fascists were involved in a counter-demonstration and in the systematic attempts to wreck the occasion . |
| 23 | Fieldworkers used list A as a basis and the other two as a back-up resource ; B and C were ordered in such a way that if researchers failed to record an interview at , for example , household number 4 on list A , household number 4 of lists B and C would be of a similar type in the same locale . |
| 24 | Other researchers failed to find the ‘ less is more ’ effect . |
| 25 | The Senate ( upper house ) rejected the key elements of the bill when giving it a first reading on March 22 , 1991 , and conciliation between the two houses failed to resolve the issue four days later . |
| 26 | But Byrnes failed to appreciate the importance of Roosevelt 's personal standing in the Kremlin ( even Stalin professed to be moved by his death ) , while his own successful experience as a horse-trading domestic politician led him to underestimate the difficulty of dealing with foreigners — and especially the Russians who shared few if any of his values and assumptions . |
| 27 | It was very noticeable , particularly in England and Wales , that the ATB had in many cases failed to convince the older farmer of the benefits of training . |
| 28 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |
| 29 | Visitors saw that same orientation in the recent retrospective of the work of Biennial-alumnus Jean-Michel Basquiat , for which seven catalogue essays sought to transform the profligate drug addict from a middle-class home into a spokesman for the oppressed . |
| 30 | A number of cases arose following the collapse of savings and loans companies ( " thrifts " — see below ) . |