Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 2 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |
| 3 | This company subsequently made and sold pultruding machines to many other plastics specialists , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 4 | The General Public Utilities ( GPU ) , which operated the station when a faulty valve badly damaged the reactor core in 1979 , had alleged that Babcock and Wilcox , the manufacturers , failed to issue warnings about known deficiencies in its pressurised water reactors . |
| 5 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 6 | The Whole Curriculum ( 1975 ) and The Practical Curriculum ( 1981 ) both sought to alert teachers to the complex issues that have to be taken into account in whole curriculum planning , but both eschewed the provision of ready-made answers . |
| 7 | This view has also received support from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and from the environmental directorate of the European Commission , although in the UK government itself the Department of the Environment failed to acknowledge receipt of the FoE reports . |
| 8 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 9 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
| 10 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 11 | First , it sought to strip Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction ; next , it authorized international humanitarian relief inside Iraq for the Kurds ; and finally , it contemplated limited sales of oil to finance innocuous causes such as essential imports , the payment of reparations and the cost of maintaining a UN inspection team . |
| 12 | This work , which sought to strip Christianity of its supernatural trappings and present Jesus as ‘ an incomparable man ’ , was perhaps the single most talked-about book of its age . |
| 13 | The protest continued on the following day , but on April 12 the strike committee agreed to suspend strikes for 10 days pending negotiations with the republican leadership . |
| 14 | Slovenia and Croatia agreed to suspend implementation of their independence declarations , but not the declarations themselves . |
| 15 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 16 | In a statement yesterday , NUPE said it had recently learned that the hospital trust planned to borrow £300,000 from its capital programme to finance the development . |
| 17 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 18 | Fine Arts Brass has always been actively involved in educational projects , and as well as coaching students , is involved in a nationwide series of schools concerts under the banner ‘ Legal and General Concert for Children ’ , which has recently bee expanded to include concerts in Schools for the deaf . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the fact that constructions containing mutated oligonucleotides I or III failed to stimulate transcription to wild type values , argues in favour of a direct effect of the binding proteins on transcription , in a similar way as observed for the homologous constructions . |
| 20 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 21 | As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War . |
| 22 | Open gun positions were located in the bow , midships and extreme tail and provision made to carry bombs beneath the lower wings . |
| 23 | His bid to halt the cycle route was defeated and the committee recommended allowing access into and through the High Street in both directions for cycles at all times . |
| 24 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 25 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 26 | The Hungarian Democratic Forum ( HDF or MDF ) , whose leader Jozsef Antall was formally invited on May 3 to seek to form a government , agreed to support Göncz in the eventual presidential elections ; meanwhile the ( HDF ) First Deputy Speaker , György Szabad , would be acting Speaker while Göncz acted as interim President . |
| 27 | Finance houses sought to promote business in a responsible manner , recognizing that only in that way would they be promoting profitable business . |
| 28 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 29 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 30 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |