Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 2 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 3 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 4 | It was very noticeable , particularly in England and Wales , that the ATB had in many cases failed to convince the older farmer of the benefits of training . |
| 5 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |
| 6 | Visitors saw that same orientation in the recent retrospective of the work of Biennial-alumnus Jean-Michel Basquiat , for which seven catalogue essays sought to transform the profligate drug addict from a middle-class home into a spokesman for the oppressed . |
| 7 | For example , some Health Authorities tried to obstruct the competitive tendering process for ancillary services . |
| 8 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 9 | Yet while the last tsars sought to preserve the traditional order Russia was undergoing a process of profound economic and social change . |
| 10 | Opposition parties failed to gain the necessary 201 votes to dismiss him , although they won the motion by 189 to 174 votes . |
| 11 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 12 | The Warsaw Pact might no longer be a threat to the West , but what was the future of NATO in the new era where Allied nations sought to realise the so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ by cutting defence spending ? |
| 13 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 14 | It examined and rejected the proposition that a general right of privacy should be legally recognised , pointing out that this was not the way in which English law had in recent centuries sought to protect the main democratic rights of citizens — neither the right of free speech nor the right of free assembly being embodied in statute law , for example . |
| 15 | In the mountain-top refuge of Karfi , a few straggling survivors tried to keep the Minoan way of life going , but it had fallen into lifeless stereotypes . |
| 16 | Dr Bach himself believed that his flower remedies helped to bring the physical , emotional and mental planes of the individual more into harmony with the spiritual plane and said that there could be ‘ no true healing unless there is a change in outlook , peace of mind and inner happiness ’ . |
| 17 | To comment on the missing issues from the general election , as do the various articles in your issue of 17 April , without recognition that at least some of the parties tried to widen the political agenda , is to provide a very incomplete analysis for finding the way forward . |
| 18 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 19 | Ones with numerous branches seemed to dominate the earlier rocks , ones with fewer branches were later , while in rocks we would now recognize as Silurian and early Devonian , forms with but a single branch ( or stipe ) were abundant . |
| 20 | However , the relevant court system is not always so expensive and the methods adopted to enable the fair resolution of the dispute may not always be cheap . |
| 21 | And as urgent talks went on in London and Barcelona , the words returned to haunt the top officials trying to sort out the shambles . |
| 22 | The finchbacks spread into Glamorganshire and much of western England , and some white-faced finchbacks began to dominate the English side of the Welsh borders . |
| 23 | The main thrust of this book is , naturally , concentrated on the period around 1900 when attitudes within the reserved , even isolationist Murano were gradually relaxed , and from around 1910 , when Muranese glassmakers and designers began to re-join the international scene . |
| 24 | The designers decided to supply the cognitive power of this machine by giving it a human . |
| 25 | About 15 funds attended to hear the new chief executive Cedric Scroggs talk frankly about past problems and promise a more open approach to joint development and marketing deals in the future . |
| 26 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 27 | On Friday 29 January around 150 guests , together with employees from LTS 's Aberdeen and Lincoln offices gathered to witness the official opening of the Company 's new facility at Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Dyce , Aberdeen . |
| 28 | But the categories and frequencies provide a useful commentary on the ways schools chose to implement the main managerial aspect of PNP policy , as contained in the various documents and courses relating to the coordinator role . |
| 29 | In summary , the most successful schools appeared to have the following characteristics : |
| 30 | In addition , it is most important that the case management service remains faithful to its models , or at least , if changes are required these are explicitly acknowledged and change measures and performance indicators altered to reflect the new focus . |