Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several of the calculations which produced low success rates could probably be undertaken with a good deal more success in the actual context concerned . |
| 2 | Questions looking at this sort of relationship , explicitly mentioned in the foundation list , produced low success rates . |
| 3 | It recommended that school leavers aged 14 to 16 should attend ‘ continuation ’ schools for the equivalent of a day a week ( this was never implemented ) . |
| 4 | The Task Group on Assessment and Testing recommended that assessment arrangements should be phased in over five years , and that an intensive teacher-training programme should be mounted in the meantime . |
| 5 | The majority report recommended that cash allowances financed by the state should be paid in respect of children whose parents were not subject to income tax . |
| 6 | Yakovlev realized this , and recommended that party men be sent out in large numbers from Moscow and the guberniia towns . |
| 7 | Tyler recommended that pesticide tests be developed specially for hot countries . |
| 8 | Following Griffiths , the Korner Report ( 1984 ) recommended that district budgets should be linked to specialties such as X-rays or operating theatres . |
| 9 | The availability of good roads in Central and Mediterranean Europe , during the first half of the 19th century , made possible sales contracts under which the buyer paid for the goods upon the seller 's tender of the bill of lading at the port of shipment or transhipment . |
| 10 | He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone . |
| 11 | In a test case of 1887 the Home Office ruled that vigilance associations could not recover their costs for prosecutions from government funds.95 Out of the NVA 's annual income of two thousand pounds , half was spent on legal work . |
| 12 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |
| 13 | " Heads of state and government agreed that member states face common economic challenges , and were concerned at lower growth and increasing unemployment . |
| 14 | Furthermore , in a survey carried out last year , over 88 percent of British doctors agreed that animal experiments can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between humans and animals . |
| 15 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 16 | Group agreed that laser printers were uneconomical and unnecessary for normal correspondence , and that their use should be restricted to areas where presentation quality is needed , for preparation of near-camera-ready copy and for documents distributed to outside bodies , such as commissioned Reports , etc . |
| 17 | Representatives of the Artists Rights Society , Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts , and New York Artists Equity , agreed that resale rights were important creative incentives and suggested that visual artists ' royalties be administered in a manner similar to the administration of royalties for musicians , composers and writers . |
| 18 | The FA , faced with fixture congestion with a gap of eight days between each match , reluctantly agreed that Cup ties would be decided by penalties after one replay . |
| 19 | Morrison said later he felt Border had edged the ball , but he agreed that television replays appeared to show the ‘ woody ’ sound was probably the ball touching the stump . |
| 20 | On the accession of new member states to the Union , they " agreed that enlargement negotiations will start with Austria , Sweden and Finland at the beginning of 1993 " . |
| 21 | On Oct. 10 , at EC sponsored-talks in The Hague , Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that JNA forces would withdraw from Croatia within one month . |
| 22 | As well as establishing reduced overall catch quotas for 1991 ( 93,570 tonnes for cod , 40,500 for haddock ) , they agreed that fishing boats over 100 tonnes in the North Sea and also along the west coast of Scotland , more than 40 per cent of whose catch consisted of cod and haddock , should be obliged to remain in port for eight consecutive days each month from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31 , 1991 . |
| 23 | Parish councillors agreed that danger notices should be erected at the pond site . |
| 24 | ‘ She got eight O levels and three A's , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 25 | To stimulate regional economic development , the EC agreed advanced technology transfers to offices located in Argentina , Colombia , Chile , Uruguay and Venezuela , and also to support training for small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 26 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 27 | Ed made little finger pointings . |
| 28 | In a budget report presented in mid-1990 , the Minister of Finance , Kinza Clodumar , said that he expected that phosphate royalties would drop by A$10,000,000 from the 1989-90 figure of A$25,000,000 . |
| 29 | Now the State Department argued that north Americans interest in a good relation with Iran and the safety of Americans there demanded his exclusion . |
| 30 | Fuller argued that court proceedings and the judicial process ( ‘ adjudication ’ ) were not suitable for the resolution of polycentric issues and disputes . |