Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 2 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 3 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 4 | At present employers tend to see joint degrees as second class . |
| 5 | Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies . |
| 6 | An Italian government proposal to establish a central register of suspicious operations failed to gain parliamentary approval . |
| 7 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 8 | An international review of evaluated programmes published in 1978 concluded that most of these early programmes failed to influence smoking behaviour ( although several had achieved educational objectives such as improving knowledge and understanding of the relation between smoking and disease ) . |
| 9 | Prior to the conference various groups met to produce short contributions to the debate . |
| 10 | Regarding staff becoming involved , initial discussions tend to involve senior staff but once the programme of work is signed up it will involve staff at all levels . |
| 11 | Eurosterling bondholders tend to prefer protective covenants that prevent a deterioration in credit quality , whereas eurodollar bondholders prefer the put-at-par option . |
| 12 | And last night SmithKline heard that its Tagamet asthma drug failed to get full approval in the US . |
| 13 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 reported that the European Communities ( EC ) had also allocated a grant of ECU150,000,000 ( about US$207,000,000 ) to Jordan as one of the countries most affected by the Gulf War , and during a visit by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on Feb. 14 [ see p. 37989 ] Germany agreed to provide further aid . |
| 14 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 15 | The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation . |
| 16 | Participation in such operations as " Desert Storm " in the Gulf in 1991 , however , were not favoured and the SPD wanted Germany to continue to confine military operations to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) area . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 19 | An examination to assess whether programmes or projects undertaken to meet established policy goals or objectives have met these aims . |
| 20 | When Norman Lamont announced plans to borrow to finance reduced taxes for the low paid , Labour accused him of bribery . |
| 21 | The money will be used to purchase hawthorn whips to replenish damaged stock . |
| 22 | However , two recent placebo controlled studies using prolonged oesophageal pH monitoring failed to show any effect of theophylline or Β agonists on the severity of GOR parameters . |
| 23 | The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge . |
| 24 | Such groups tend to wield greater power in conflict situations than their members , and indeed the very existence of the groups may be seen to anticipate and perpetuate conflict , to harden and formalise a set of attitudes and values that their individual members may not themselves have recognised or expressed . |
| 25 | Group size — small groups tend to be more cohesive than larger groups ; small groups tend to encourage full participation ; large groups contain greater diversity of talent . |
| 26 | It is striking how even when certain minority groups tend to achieve mean levels of attainment above those of the white majority , they still remain heavily disadvantaged in employment terms . |
| 27 | However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer . |
| 28 | By working together , Objective Software and Brio intend to develop complementary data access and data analysis technologies , so that users can undertake business modelling in a client-server environment . |
| 29 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 30 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |