Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |
| 32 | After some heated argument in which I pointed out that it would have been more courteous and certainly more seamanlike to ask us to move before attempting to sink us as well as our motor boat , the skipper agreed to accept liability for the damage , and we moved off to lick our wounds . |
| 33 | Subsequently , newly formed opposition groups , the central trade union , professional organizations , students , religious bodies and even individual members within the UDPM sought to increase pressure on the government to introduce political reforms . |
| 34 | In 1728 , for example , Lord Milton , in spite of his involvement in the political management of Scotland , failed to secure permission for David Stewart of Ballachallan to purchase the commission of Lieutenant Graham of the Royal Regiment of North British Fusiliers , because the King had prohibited buying , selling or resigning commissions . |
| 35 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 36 | It seems clear that the man who failed to secure peace in our time , did at least find a personal tranquillity on the banks of the River Churn . |
| 37 | At the general election on March 5 , Haglelgam failed to secure re-election as the at-large senator for Yap . |
| 38 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 39 | Although Sewell failed to secure appointment as Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon on Coleman 's death , he was veterinary surgeon to the London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers from July 1805 and was presented as such at one of Prince Albert 's levees in 1850 . |
| 40 | Appointed to the politburo and then made founding editor of the theoretical journal Hong Qi ( 'Red Flag' ) in 1958 , Chen wrote numerous articles attacking ‘ revisionism ’ and supporting Mao 's disastrous ‘ Great Leap Forward ’ , an ill-conceived and brutally executed drive for rapid industrialisation and rural collectivisation now blamed for the deaths of more than 15 million people . |
| 41 | Apparently Alfonso came to visit Richard and agreed to stand surety for his friend 's behaviour , guaranteeing that he would do nothing against the will of the Duke of Aquitaine or his father . |
| 42 | The 10th UN-IAEA inspection on Feb. 3-13 into Iraq 's nuclear weapons failed to find evidence of a suspected secret underground plutonium facility capable of supplying several nuclear warheads a year . |
| 43 | This failure to find cross-modal priming was confirmed by Clarke and Morton ( 1983 ) and by Morton ( 1979 ) , who failed to find facilitation of visual word identification by prior auditory presentation . |
| 44 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 45 | In a full memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 17 China agreed to provide protection for US inventions and copyrighted works , including computer software , product patents , sound recordings and trade secrets . |
| 46 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 47 | The military commander , Lieutenant Colonel Brereton , failed to obtain support from the magistrates and withdrew two of his troops from the city . |
| 48 | The granting of an individual right of petition to the European Commission and Court of Human Rights permitted individuals complaining of breach of the protection of civil rights in the Convention to go to these institutions if they failed to obtain redress through the UK courts . |
| 49 | His only child was an infant daughter but he also had two adult brothers , William and Ademar , who clearly expected to obtain possession of the county and be the guardians of their niece . |
| 50 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 51 | Apparently he 'd brought the corpse in and then tried to claim commission on it . |
| 52 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 53 | Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak . |
| 54 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 55 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 56 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 57 | It was financed by the Duke of Portland and built to carry coal from his mines in the Kilmarnock district to Troon harbour . |
| 58 | They do not deny that Social Democrats helped to implant worker-consciousness of such international emblems of solidarity as May Day and assisted in the development of working-class organizations . |
| 59 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 60 | It was when she described seeing film of the results of the bombing on television , and thinking : ‘ They think I did that ! ’ |