Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 2 | Swann Galleries has chosen to celebrate this fiftieth anniversary on 29 and 30 April with the sale of a major book collection which reflects closely the interests of its founder , Raymond Epstein . |
| 3 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
| 4 | Although a number of deaf people , especially in London , Coventry and Southampton lost their homes , deaf institutes , churches and schools seem to have received more damage . |
| 5 | Selection by the different avifaunas seems to have generated these infraspecific differences and the tree species survive in both islands . |
| 6 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 7 | The Yanks appeared to need to do each other down , which , under the circumstances , was counter-productive . |
| 8 | The Scots do tend to take most things seriously . |
| 9 | Mr Goodman 's solicitor suggested that his contract should include an arbitration clause because the parties had failed to agree all the terms of his employment before he started work . |
| 10 | With the opposition boycott of legislative elections in March 1992 [ see p. 38802 ] and updating of the electoral register permitted only between January and March of any year , several opposition parties had failed to register some 1 , 500,000 of their supporters . |
| 11 | Face-saving formulas involving unacknowledged compromises by the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships had served to overcome some of the potential obstacles to the Madrid conference . |
| 12 | Turning to the CAA , the report said inspectors had failed to detect any significant engineering problems at Birmingham . |
| 13 | Monetarists have attempted to counter this by arguing that any increase in spending by one group in the economy , with no accompanying increase in the money supply , will tend to raise interest rates and so ‘ crowd out ’ spending by some other groups . |
| 14 | Rival Serbian and Muslim gangs stood poised to repel any attempt to breach the fluid battle lines . |
| 15 | Quite apart from whether this is true in practice , contemporary Marxists have tended to overlook this insight . |
| 16 | For over 15 years , artificial slope designers have attempted to reproduce that unique phenomenon of skiing , the mogul . |
| 17 | Although implied assent to the acceptance of third party rights can be presumed where the parties have intended to accord such rights , the Court did not extend this to implied adherence to a multilateral convention for the purpose of claiming benefits alone , where ratification and accession are possible . |
| 18 | Although a number of feminist authors have tended to view some of the 1960s legislation as ‘ liberalising ’ , they have sought to distinguish the identification of such a trend from any notion of ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 19 | Over the last decade , many organisations in both public and private sectors have had to become more ‘ market orientated ’ . |
| 20 | Was this a likely concession to someone whom the authorities believed had committed such horrific killings ? |
| 21 | Companies expected to start shipping this new generation of multimedia PC during 1991-2 include Zenith Data Systems , NEC , AT & T , Tandy , Olivetti and CompuAdd . |
| 22 | Recent legislation in most industrial countries has helped to turn this into reality . |
| 23 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 24 | Yeah it 's , it 's surprising how many companies want to like leave that side of things to un |
| 25 | A registrar having made that order , and the administrators having refused to disclose that statement to the accountants , the accountants applied to the court for leave under rule 9.5 of the Rules of 1986 to inspect the statement of grounds and to set aside the registrar 's order . |
| 26 | Also prohibited was payment of ransom or protection money to the guerrillas by farmers and businesspeople ; companies proved to have paid such money would lose their operating licences . |
| 27 | For one thing , the children involved all had genuine symptoms , and there was no suggestion that the parents had attempted to fabricate any symptoms . |
| 28 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 29 | WEEDS five feet hight have turned many grassy areas in east Belfast Housing Executive estates into jungles , it was claimed today . |
| 30 | And in exceptional circumstances , microscopic intestinal parasites have survived to indicate some of the health problems that people suffered . |