Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 130,000 postal workers agreed to return to work three days later when the Interior Ministry agreed to make a payment of DM650-900 per employee . |
| 6 | She knew that Sarah planned to wear a midnight blue taffeta dress , with silver sandals and her mother 's diamante clips and fur cape . |
| 7 | It was only when negotiations with Parnell failed to produce a compromise that he led the clerical attack on Parnell 's leadership . |
| 8 | In the event , Wellington failed to form a government . |
| 9 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 10 | The Efta states agreed to make a contribution to the Community budget in return for participation in the market . |
| 11 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 12 | But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham . |
| 13 | When Alice met these two peculiar characters the words of a famous rhyme going through her head : ‘ Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed to have a battle … ’ |
| 14 | Fieldworkers used list A as a basis and the other two as a back-up resource ; B and C were ordered in such a way that if researchers failed to record an interview at , for example , household number 4 on list A , household number 4 of lists B and C would be of a similar type in the same locale . |
| 15 | How do we explain the instances when the density algorithm failed to return an interpretation as was the case in half of the trials ? |
| 16 | In all trials , the shortfall algorithm failed to produce an interpretation . |
| 17 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 18 | At a recent Labour national executive meeting the leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament failed to get a seconder from either left or right for a motion to have this whole issue discussed by the party conference . |
| 19 | A few minutes later , installed in the office , a small room looking out on to the quarantine quarters , Sophie tried to find a topic of conversation that would keep things on a professional basis . |
| 20 | Put another way , puritan values helped to create an audience receptive to programs for the improvement of man 's estate . |
| 21 | Jane was in a junk food café trying to eat chips off a floppy paper plate and drink red wine three-quarters full of ice , when a young man with long hair entered carrying a guitar , ‘ Ugh — do n't like him , ’ said her host 's son , aged sixteen . |
| 22 | The door opened again and Peggy entered carrying a tray on which there were three drinks . |
| 23 | Even in her hopelessly weakened condition , Maldita had lashed out when Perdita tried to put a rug on her . |
| 24 | Cecil King behaved liked a baron at the Daily Mirror in the 1960s , scolding the Wilson government and toying with the idea of political office . |
| 25 | The route promised to throw a variety of weather at us . |
| 26 | Michel Perie , the boisterous young Toulon prop whose domination of Pascal Ondarts helped provide a platform for his side 's victory , holds aloft the Championship trophy . |
| 27 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 28 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 29 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 30 | The door opened and Jenkins entered carrying a tray . |