Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 2 | The patients also tended to have lower median proximal oesophageal amplitudes than controls but this failed to reach statistical significance ( 36 v 42 mm Hg ; p=0.1 ) . |
| 3 | When this failed to contain local spending sufficiently , volume targets were introduced together with penalties in the form of loss of central government grant if local authorities exceeded their targets . |
| 4 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |
| 5 | This avoided putting full page ads in Melody Maker , NME and Sounds , and hoping somebody would read them . |
| 6 | Some tried to organize patriotic resistance groups without much success . |
| 7 | Indirectly , this helped to stimulate industrial development . |
| 8 | This helped to boost domestic food production , but , added to the disruption caused by the war , reduced the volume of crops for export . |
| 9 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 10 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 11 | This began to promote excessive erosion and Aboriginal concerns relating to infringements of their sacred sites which abound in the region . |
| 12 | This meant installing new plumbing , electrics , draining and the new handpainted pale-coloured units — we did n't realise how much work needed to be done , ’ says Julie . |
| 13 | The roads were usually wide enough for two vehicles to pass without slowing down , but in dry weather this meant enveloping each other in a cloud of choking lava dust . |
| 14 | This meant unclasping one hand from the other , and the mite took instant advantage , working its way up into his wrist . |
| 15 | This meant putting more manpower — three extra BP people , three extra processors from seismic contractor Geco-Prakla — and a lot more computer hardware on the boat , says Nunn . |
| 16 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 17 | Only 22 managed to meet this date , but by 1955 a good submission record meant that about half the country 's plans had been approved , and the bulk by the end of the decade . |
| 18 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 19 | No deals for hostages I could understand , yet the French had made future business and full diplomatic relations conditional on their hostages being freed and no more being taken . |
| 20 | Japan 's Constitution , drawn up under United States auspices after the Second World War , had limited the country 's military activities to self-defence , in recognition of the Japanese aggression in the region during the 1930s and 1940s , and the possibility of changing this had caused considerable consternation among various South and East Asian countries . |
| 21 | This had aroused international interest from such countries as Argentina , Zimbabwe and Australia . |
| 22 | This had aroused considerable interest . |
| 23 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 24 | None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen . |
| 25 | This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate . |
| 26 | This had continued all night . |
| 27 | This had allowed one end of the pin to disengage from the buckle backplate , thus allowing the clamping lever to displace , effectively unfastening the belt . |
| 28 | This had started this morning before erm Rosie and Jim . |
| 29 | Oh ye er this had got educational video on the thing |
| 30 | This had found partial expression as early as 1589 when the government had persuaded Constantinople to raise the Metropolitan of Moscow to patriarchal status in order to strengthen Orthodoxy 's defences . |