Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the conference various groups met to produce short contributions to the debate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The deadweight loss to consumers from lower output and higher prices is measured by the triangle A , but society gains because output is now p produced using less resources . |
| 4 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 5 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 6 | When the U S authorities failed to undertake domestic policies to remedy the external situation , some countries started to exercise their option of converting their dollar balances into gold . |
| 7 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 8 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 9 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 10 | Nearly one-fifth of the researchers failed to produce any papers whatsoever after completing their research , and there are significant differences between universities in the proportions of unproductive researchers . |
| 11 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 12 | He said the US authorities planned to allocate 50,000 places to refugees from the Soviet Union in the next 12 months . |
| 13 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 14 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 15 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 16 | Occupational pension scheme rules and related personnel policies helped to construct salaried men , in particular , as ‘ good providers ’ , who typically served out a lengthy working life with one employer . |
| 17 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 18 | The prime example discussed by Stepp and Michalski involved classifying simple pictures of goods trains . |
| 19 | THE benefits of splitting up a business were demonstrated when Racal Electronics reported trebled annual profits . |
| 20 | The raft was defective and settlement occurred causing serious cracks to appear in the houses . |
| 21 | Blundell , the regular McLaren Formula One test driver , said all three drivers agreed to work double shifts to cut the number of pitstops . |
| 22 | Mikhail Gorbachev avoided touching sensitive nerves during his Berlin visit , though he , too , hinted at the need for change . |
| 23 | Some ten per cent of theses in the present study are regarded as unproductive in that their authors failed to publish related papers ; the original theses were never consulted , and the theses have never been cited . |
| 24 | Jews empowered to have friendly relations with Aryans . |
| 25 | Re-constituted in 1979 , with a clerk provided by NACRO and administrative expenses funded by a grant from a charitable trust , MPs and peers from all the main political parties met to discuss current issues of criminal justice policy and practice . |
| 26 | 233 an applicant for judicial review sought to adduce Parliamentary materials to prove a fact . |
| 27 | The real concern is that the remedy applied to suppress these practices may do more long-term damage to the rights of authors and publishers than can be justified by any compensation to the victims of crime or assuaging of the moral outrage achieved by the forfeiture of the proceeds of crime . |
| 28 | Editor , — Don Nutbeam and colleagues report that smoking education projects based in schools failed to show significant effects on smoking behaviour , knowledge , beliefs , or values . |
| 29 | The Subversive Stitch sought to disturb stereotypical ideas about women and their art practice ; Out of the Frame to break with the established order , through the use of unorthodox materials , private symbolism , boild styles , and large scale works . |
| 30 | We were told that in the 1960s the revenue sought to tax such employees on that benefit on the basis of the average cost to the airline of providing a seat , not merely on the marginal cost . |