Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 2 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 3 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 4 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 5 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 6 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 7 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 8 | With its three times zoom range the FZ–3000 covers the vast majority of everyday shooting conditions . |
| 9 | The Georgian mill owner 's house has been restored and houses displays exploring the history of the mill . |
| 10 | The important thing was not whether the decision-maker was performing a judicial or an administrative function but whether the decision made affected the rights of those subject to it . |
| 11 | The size and range of the relief activities undertaken shows the strength of public support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 12 | The local government statute of early 1864 duly established the zemstvos , elective bodies at provincial and district level empowered to improve a range of local facilities from transport , credit , and insurance to health and education . |
| 13 | This technique involves feeding the child orally but allowing the food to pass out through a surgically produced fistula at the side of the neck . |
| 14 | One technique involves helping a person to break down a problem into more manageable subproblems and consider the merits of various possible solutions to each part . |
| 15 | But , if the information is derived from several populations ( e.g. different years ) , the analagous technique involves setting a base year figure to 100 and scaling the figures for succeeding years relative to this . |
| 16 | The snapshot technique involves injecting the animal with a radioactively labelled version of glucose , 2-deoxy-glucose ( 2DG ) , that ‘ sticks ’ in cells . |
| 17 | A more modern technique involves placing the nuts in a metal cylinder , and the cylinder on the fire . |
| 18 | Monitoring involves tracking the evolution of environmental trends , sequences of events , or streams of activities . |
| 19 | I made the decision to abort using the apparatus and revert to an alternative er means . |
| 20 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 21 | However , it was Mr Deerey who resigned after his calls failed to gain the support of the local YC executive , which included Chalmers 's brother and brother-in-law . |
| 22 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 23 | In this and other chapters we have discussed the various LEA-based and school-based strategies devised to secure the implementation of PNP . |
| 24 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 25 | Germany agreed to finance the return of the toxic chemicals , supplied by the former East Germany as agricultural aid , after Greenpeace threatened to return the waste itself and invoice the German government [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 26 | On Nov. 8 Poland and Germany agreed to de-restrict the use of territorial waters bordering the two countries and to ease restrictions on cross-border road traffic . |
| 27 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 28 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 29 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 30 | The reason is not technical difficulty or avalanches , but the fact that the normal route involves reaching a ridge at 7,000 metres which is no less than four kilometres away from the summit pyramid . |