Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 6 | Russians applied to enter this country and less than half of them were allowed in ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 13 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 14 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 15 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 18 | In any case , a recent mass stranding of pilot whales on the eastern coast of the United States failed to reveal any Stenurus in the air sinuses . |
| 19 | But the results obtained by pioneer workers were not confirmed , when properly controlled experiments in infected animals failed to achieve any success . |
| 20 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Charges were never pressed and the image of Scottish football lived to die another day . |
| 24 | Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares . |
| 25 | Iraq 's half-dozen Kurdish parties stopped fighting each other in 1987 to form the Kurdistan Democratic Front , committed to democracy for Iraq and autonomy for Kurdistan . |
| 26 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 27 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 28 | His sombre eyes seemed to address each individual personally , in the way that a schoolmaster delivers a final warning to wayward pupils . |
| 29 | Eventually , the term came to denote any number which , when added to a figurate number , generates the next higher number of the same shape ( triangular numbers , square numbers , pentagonal numbers , and so on ) . |
| 30 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |