Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 2 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 3 | However , two recent placebo controlled studies using prolonged oesophageal pH monitoring failed to show any effect of theophylline or Β agonists on the severity of GOR parameters . |
| 4 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 5 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 6 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 7 | Thus Nutbeam et al are disappointed that two well tried instruments for preventing children from smoking failed to have any effect , especially when the schemes worked elsewhere . |
| 8 | Will the Department of Education and science inquiry into where research council money goes grasp this nettle in its report , due in April ? |
| 9 | The present building has had much rebuilding including restoration work in 1973 . |
| 10 | The outflow of labour from agriculture has denuded many villages of their working populations and replaced them by inhabitants who work in towns and cities and who are not dependent upon farming for their living . |
| 11 | I would like to thank the Curwen Archives Trust whose generous grant has made this publication possible . |
| 12 | Since his tragic mishap , the former marathon runner has accomplished many projects including an outward bound course , abseiling and canoeing . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 14 | Intel Corp has found another patent that it thinks is being infringed , and has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the import from Taiwan of Twinhead Inc 's Slimnote notebook computers , and put a ban on them . |
| 15 | Unisys Corp has taken another step in its return to fiscal probity with an upgrading of its debt from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which moved the senior unsecured debt rating up to Ba3 from B1 , the subordinated debt to B2 from B3 and the preferred stock to b3 from ca . |
| 16 | Getting there swifter and more often British Rail has announced more services linking Cleveland with other parts of the region , and promised faster journeys from Darlington to Middlesbrough and Saltburn . |
| 17 | This need to attract statutory funding and support has necessitated many compromises , one of which has been to ‘ straighten ’ our image . |
| 18 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 19 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 20 | The decision has incensed many civilians , and prompted demonstrations . |
| 21 | This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government . |
| 22 | The click means the word processor has typed that character onto the screen . |
| 23 | Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership . |
| 24 | Hair needs moisturising all year long which is why more and more products are formulated with effective conditioning ingredients . |
| 25 | First , the APU has put more stress on disseminating survey information which has implications for teaching . |
| 26 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 27 | What remedy had Parliament resolved to cure this defect ? |
| 28 | This might , he appreciated , mean putting sections of the house ‘ under wraps ’ , but would I bring all my experience and expertise to bear to ensure such losses were kept to a minimum ? |
| 29 | It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground . |
| 30 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |