Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Slovenia and Croatia agreed to suspend implementation of their independence declarations , but not the declarations themselves . |
| 5 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 6 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finance houses sought to promote business in a responsible manner , recognizing that only in that way would they be promoting profitable business . |
| 13 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 14 | In this and other cases a number of problems often arose reflecting lack of control and replicability of measurements , insufficient representativeness , unreliable accuracy of data , and problems of finding suitable methods of analysis of the data collected . |
| 15 | The three countries agreed to promote co-operation in reducing the supply and demand for narcotics through exchanges of information and training . |
| 16 | Even this further devaluation failed to restore confidence as the US treasury secretary announced that the United States would not intervene to support the dollar and intended to remove all controls on capital exports . |
| 17 | An offer made to acquire control of a public company . |
| 18 | ‘ I was approached here in Paris by a member of the commercial section of the Iranian Embassy and asked to arrange shipment from Brazil , that 's all . |
| 19 | On more than one occasion , Nationalist troops clashed with Japanese forces in China , as Japan , realizing the threat to Japanese interests of a unified China , sought to sustain Zhang in power and impede the Nationalist advance . |
| 20 | He also sought to preserve wheat for human consumption and issued a proclamation prohibiting the manufacture of starch from wheat . |
| 21 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 22 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 23 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 24 | The meeting agreed to increase pressure on the UN to take action to enforce Resolution 799 . |
| 25 | A notice in the guest 's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest 's property . |
| 26 | It was held that , because the car was referred to in the contract as a new car , this was an express term and since the exclusion clause sought to exclude liability for implied terms only , the defendants were liable . |
| 27 | Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . |
| 28 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | During most of this same period , however , there existed within Anglicanism another more liberal and conciliatory tradition , which drew inspiration from the work of Richard Hooker and sought to minimize controversy by advocating a wide measure of toleration on questions of dogma and ceremony . |