Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this and other chapters we have discussed the various LEA-based and school-based strategies devised to secure the implementation of PNP . |
| 5 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 6 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 7 | This could , of course , occur even if the Member States failed to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Other researchers failed to find the ‘ less is more ’ effect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A number of cases arose following the collapse of savings and loans companies ( " thrifts " — see below ) . |
| 24 | The new rules came in after Treasury solicitors agreed to settle the case of a German law student who was granted a judicial review of the Government 's refusal to reimburse EC students ' tuition fees . |
| 25 | Nor were any attempts made to supplement the grammar or lexicon . |
| 26 | It was during this period that with the cooperation of the US Occupation , parts of the bureaucracy , elected conservative politicians and private employers sought to alter the extent of labour rights in order , it was argued , to maintain internal political stability . |
| 27 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 28 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 29 | Western publishing houses sought to enter the East German market . |
| 30 | One of the reasons found to explain the non-use of the lobon-gur solution was the lack of cooperation from the village practitioners . |