Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government said parents knew best but that failed to recognise the professionalism of teachers and the close links between teachers , parents and schools . |
| 2 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 3 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 4 | The two authorities each promised to reimburse the tram company for the realignment of the rails in its own area . |
| 5 | The Supplement on nonbook materials 1972 sought to redress the balance , and announced a level of provision to test the nerves and ambitions of school librarians and library advisers for years to come |
| 6 | The Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly had on May 30 failed to endorse a resolution ( which had already been passed by the Chamber of Nations ) requesting that the names of all former StB agents be published . |
| 7 | When this failed to elicit a response he turned directly to the larger . |
| 8 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 9 | This failed to prevent the violence from spreading , with clashes between Uzbeks and Kirghiz , pogroms , and attacks on Interior Ministry buildings occurring in several localities in Osh oblast ( region ) from June 5 . |
| 10 | Many professionals said this failed to plug a gap in the Children Act . |
| 11 | The Daily Mail stressed that this failed to console the victim 's distraught family , friends and workmates , her MP or the probation service , who were also not told of the killer 's threat . |
| 12 | This sought to demonstrate a concept of surplus which , taking besides labour other inputs — land , skill and ability , capital — into account , did not rely upon Ricardo 's labour theory of value ; but went on to conclude that , under Capitalism , the inputs are not rewarded by reference to the parts they play in the creation of wealth and that labour in particular did not get its fair share . |
| 13 | This helped to maintain the return on shareholders ' investment . |
| 14 | This helped to mask the odour of death if the corpse was to stay in the home , especially during the warmer summer months . |
| 15 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 16 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 17 | This helped to avoid a recession and the ‘ real ’ economy continued to grow strongly . |
| 18 | This seemed to give a sense of his priorities . |
| 19 | This seemed to kill the idea , and with no obvious practical use it faded from mainstream interest . |
| 20 | This seemed to take the wind out of Miss Kenton 's sails somewhat . |
| 21 | This seemed to puzzle the headmaster . |
| 22 | This seemed to satisfy the boy 's curiosity . |
| 23 | When public order was threatened in 1936 — 7 the government hastily stepped in to implement palliative legislation limiting freedom of political expression , but this seemed to keep the problem within bounds . |
| 24 | Then the paper that had published the earlier report recognised her name as that of the rather hysterical women 's libber who was planning to expose PopCon as the enemy of women … and this seemed to clear the matter up . |
| 25 | Saudi Arabia was going flat out at 10 million b/d , to the dismay of several members who would have liked this reduced to ease the market glut they felt the Saudis had created . |
| 26 | The New Delhi High Court on Sept. 2 intervened to quash an application by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) , which was seeking powers to pursue information on alleged pay-offs related to the 1986 Bofors armaments deal [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 27 | This came to create a rift between insiders and outsiders . |
| 28 | This served to raise the rescue threshold by warning of the possible damage to the child of removal from the family . |
| 29 | The panic died down , the fish-vendors ' business picked up , the cabinet survived — but thousands whose fish was less fresh began to suffer the cholera pangs ; explosive diarrhoea and rapid dehydration , which can lead to rapid death . |
| 30 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |