Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 3 | In Northamptonshire , the NCC is opposing Kettering District Council 's plans to build Cransley Lodge , a village planned to include 750 houses by 1997 . |
| 4 | We planned to include 10 plants from each collection in the bank , enough to offset the risk of trees dying through disease or neglect , while keeping the overall area within manageable limits . |
| 5 | The military strategy devised to implement successive governments ' Defence policies reflects both long-term national grand strategy and the directions given by the government of the day , and is largely the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 6 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 7 | In summer 1984 the Commission of the EC agreed to suspend legal proceedings against IBM in return for the following main concessions : |
| 8 | If liability is not in dispute , the action can simply be stood out by agreement or an application made to the judge of the lists , or to the judge on circuit , for a standing-out order , or possibly an application made to claim provisional damages ; but if liability is still in dispute the action must be tried and ought to be heard as soon as possible , irrespective of the uncertainties on quantum . |
| 9 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 10 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 11 | Indeed titles are everywhere in China today , with little trace of the fact that the Cultural Revolution sought to banish such indicators of rank and position . |
| 12 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 13 | Mr. Collins sought to accommodate such cases by recognising them as an exception to his suggested rule . |
| 14 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 15 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 16 | One big reason was that firms failed to curb non-interest costs , notably pay . |
| 17 | Orlov and others engineered factional strife in the Ministry of State Properties which in April 1857 led to the appointment as minister of M. N. Murav'ev , a man who believed that " the question [ of emancipation ] had been dreamed up by … academics , theoreticians , [ and ] sons of priests ' and who planned to treat state-owned peasants as harshly as serfs . |
| 18 | On the border issue , both sides agreed to continue intensive discussions on the remaining disputed sectors . |
| 19 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 20 | Another one bites the dust : Zeos International Ltd reports that a US district court dismissed a class action shareholder suit against it because the plaintiffs failed to provide specific facts that were material to the trial : the suit was filed last September , alleging that the company failed to disclose the formation of its new subsidiary , Occidental Corp , to manufacture and market lower cost computers under a new brand name , a development revealed by the Wall Street Journal . |
| 21 | AMERICAN investment attention yesterday turned to prospects for first quarter earnings figures after job figures failed to provide firmer indications about economic recovery . |
| 22 | Our criticism of the Bill rests on some of the ways in which the Government have approached the project , or failed to provide adequate safeguards . |
| 23 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 24 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 25 | In a state where autocracy sought to monopolise all forms of political life no political party could really exist . |
| 26 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 27 | It was only as shore jet ceased to meet increasing demands that recourse was had to outcrops exposed on hillsides in the interior . |
| 28 | 233 an applicant for judicial review sought to adduce Parliamentary materials to prove a fact . |
| 29 | The legislation sought to encourage illegal immigrants ( mostly from North African countries and variously estimated as between fewer than 500,000 and as many as 2,000,000 ) to regularize their situation by registering with the police . |
| 30 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |