Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 3 | An Italian government proposal to establish a central register of suspicious operations failed to gain parliamentary approval . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Prior to the conference various groups met to produce short contributions to the debate . |
| 7 | And last night SmithKline heard that its Tagamet asthma drug failed to get full approval in the US . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 15 | Russians applied to enter this country and less than half of them were allowed in ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | PRESSURE on the Government to reconsider its strong opposition to full membership of the European Monetary System mounted yesterday after the authorities failed to arrest another slide in the pound . |
| 19 | Queen Isabella and Mortimer sought to gain popular support by a conciliatory policy regarding the forest . |
| 20 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 21 | In Manchester , Liverpool , the Greater London Council , and some London boroughs left-wing Labour authorities sought to implement local socialism and use the town hall to challenge Thatcherite Whitehall . |
| 22 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 23 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 24 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 25 | On June 11 the Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting the desecration of the flag ; a proposed constitutional amendment — supported by Bush — to prohibit such activities failed to generate sufficient support in Congress , although it obtained a simple majority in each chamber [ see pp. 37241 ; 37525 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 29 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 30 | One day after treatment the pepsinogen A ( 100 ( 23 ) µg/l ) and pepsinogen C levels ( 34 ( 9 ) µg/l ) were still significantly increased compared with the placebo values ( p<0.01 ) SMS 201–995 treatment significantly decreased the pepsinogen A level from 43 ( 3 ) µg/l to 35 ( 3 ) µg/l ( p<0.02 ) , while the decrease in pepsinogen C values failed to reach statistical significance ( from 13 ( 1 ) µg/l to 11 ( 2 ) µg/l ) . |