Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 2 | Cells came together ( or failed to separate after cell division ) to form many-celled bodies . |
| 3 | Published diaries which record a day-to-day chronology of events may not be the most coherent of records , but they do not suffer from being over-edited , tidied up or altered to fit into hindsight . |
| 4 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 5 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 6 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 7 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 8 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 9 | Feeling unutterably depressed , she wandered round the empty cottage that seemed to echo with loneliness . |
| 10 | There was a silence that seemed to last to eternity , then her pride brought her to her feet and filled her cheeks with hot , angry colour . |
| 11 | They approached what appeared to be a massive green wall , where the sun highlighted tall trunks and sent blue shadows among the tree-tops that seemed to stretch into infinity . |
| 12 | The air felt storm-charged and Jessamy 's nerve-ends responded with a prickling that seemed to warn of danger ahead . |
| 13 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 14 | It was a stray that came to beg for food in the garden of a town house . |
| 15 | There seemed to have been a real shift from the closed systems of resource allocation that tended to exist before devolution , systems where a person , usually the head , made all the decision about capitation . |
| 16 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 17 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 18 | Free trade in industrial goods with Turkey was to develop by end-1995 under an agreement initialled in Geneva in mid-October and expected to enter into force in April 1992 following the completion of signature and ratification procedures . |
| 19 | In Phillips v. Brooks ( 1919 K.B. ) a rogue called North entered a jeweller 's shop , selected some items including a ring and asked to pay by cheque and to take the ring with him . |
| 20 | In the abstract the Free City arrangements might have worked , but they failed to take into account the hostilities they provoked ; failed to take into account the fears and prejudices unleashed by the sudden alteration of patterns of trade and allegiance ; and failed to take into account the long years of humiliating Polish partition , Prussian Polenpolitik and the rise of revolutionary Russia . |
| 21 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 22 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 23 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 24 | The man has convictions for violence and failed to return from home leave three weeks ago . |
| 25 | If your saint is to remain here now , then even if Tutilo escapes the sheriff 's law , if Herluin takes him back to Ramsey they 'll make him pay through his skin for what he attempted and failed to bring to success . |
| 26 | He went behind the settee and pretended to go to sleep . |
| 27 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 28 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 29 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 30 | Because it 's designed that way , with tiles coloured and crafted to live in harmony with both history and local environments . |