Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 2 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 3 | Then I asked to go straight back . |
| 4 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 5 | At the same time as the US sought to stiffen French resolve , at least to continue the war , it had to persuade France in effect to let go because , at the very least , it had recognized that the forces of what was nominally ‘ the French Union ’ in Indo-China in reality needed men : and these men would have to be found for and fight in the National Army of Vietnam . |
| 6 | The number of wines produced using traditional cultivation methods is increasing and standards governing these are being introduced in several countries . |
| 7 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 8 | LUNCH : 160g turkey roasted but served without skin ( 165 ) , 100g steamed sprouts ( 35 ) , parsnip and carrot puree ( 98 ) , 170g potatoes roasted in olive oil ( 157 ) , low-fat mushroom and rice stuffing flavoured with onion , sage , parsley and thyme ( 147 ) , three bacon and chestnut rolls ( 72 ) , red wine gravy made with stock , wine and orange juice ( 100 ) , 76g vegetarian Christmas pudding ( 221 ) , 30g yoghurt brandy sauce , made using low-fat yoghurt , grated orange rind , mixed spice and brandy ( 39 ) |
| 9 | Such features enable us to recognise brass made using metallic zinc as opposed to cementation . |
| 10 | Informal assessment is costly in terms of staff resources and no evidence is yet available on the consistency of decisions made using informal assessment . |
| 11 | At the 1921–2 Washington Conference Japan agreed to restore Chinese sovereignty in Shandong , but only in return for Chinese confirmation of Japan 's economic privileges there . |
| 12 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 13 | One development that did not have too much to do with NT was the coming together of Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc to announce that they will work together to establish , support and implement open standards for network printing management : the four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network . |
| 14 | The four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network . |
| 15 | Policy makers sought to promote national health and welfare and it was considered to be in the nation 's interest to extend child and maternal welfare services . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 17 | In Manchester , Liverpool , the Greater London Council , and some London boroughs left-wing Labour authorities sought to implement local socialism and use the town hall to challenge Thatcherite Whitehall . |
| 18 | The police found more than four hundred poundsw in cash hidden inside a caravan and today Loveridge admitted handling stolen property . |
| 19 | Loveridge then admitted handling stolen property and he 'll be sentenced for that offence in the next few weeks . |
| 20 | The court judged that their principles , objectives and methods conformed with the sharia ( Islamic law ) and was satisfied that they sought to preserve national unity , social peace , the socialist democratic system and socialist gains in keeping with the principles of the July 1952 and May 1971 revolutions . |
| 21 | Ten years ago this summer , Lady Diana Spencer became blushing public property . |
| 22 | The report concluded by stating that Orkney Islands Council failed to implement good working practice as required by the Scottish Office . |
| 23 | In particularly difficult cases he recommended using boiling water as well . |
| 24 | In one case , the High Court turned down a complaint that an authority failed to provide unstressful transport for a child because regulations governing ‘ statementing ’ do not require an authority to specify that there should be non-stressful transport . |
| 25 | ‘ The Government failed to provide adequate protection of pensions and it has a moral responsibility to help the Maxwell pensioners . ’ |
| 26 | When this failed to contain local spending sufficiently , volume targets were introduced together with penalties in the form of loss of central government grant if local authorities exceeded their targets . |
| 27 | Inspired by Darwin 's cousin , Francis Galton ( 1822–1911 ) , the biometricians sought to provide hard evidence that a population subjected to selection pressure exhibited a measurable difference after a few generations . |
| 28 | Other marine life expected to suffer included coral reefs , algae and sea grass . |
| 29 | A long time member of Martha Graham 's company and for many years her regular partner , Cohan became founding artistic director of London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1967 . |
| 30 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |