Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area . |
| 6 | What remedy had Parliament resolved to cure this defect ? |
| 7 | The Milk Marketing Board wants to improve that situation . |
| 8 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 9 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 10 | The simple hedges described in Fig.7.3 are essentially insurance operations in which profits and losses on each investment tend to offset each other to some extent . |
| 11 | United was not there — or at least not where Bob Smith expected her — and an SUE charge ( see diagram p. 62 ) tossed over the side failed to attract any attention . |
| 12 | Charges were never pressed and the image of Scottish football lived to die another day . |
| 13 | When you shorten distances between elements in a line of jumps , the horse simply has to bring its hocks under more than it is currently doing … while doing so the horse has to shift more weight from its forehand to its quarters , which are thus lowered and ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 14 | ( Not that it 's anybody 's business , but even a dybbuk needs to have some downtime . |
| 15 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 16 | There being no applicable statute to regulate the position , the revenue has to maintain this position at common law . |
| 17 | Addressed here are the socially organized ways in which dirty water comes to be noticed and defined as a pollution , thereby creating a case about which an enforcement agent has to take some action . |
| 18 | She opened her mouth to try to put this fact into words , but he intervened again . |
| 19 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 20 | The President must offer the three main party leaders in turn a three-day mandate to try to form another government based on the present parliament . |
| 21 | Characterised by confusion over aims and changes of membership , the panel made a number of false starts and fresh starts with the injection of new blood to try to give more direction to its work . |
| 22 | Carter authorized the State Department to try to find another asylum . |
| 23 | Eventually , the term came to denote any number which , when added to a figurate number , generates the next higher number of the same shape ( triangular numbers , square numbers , pentagonal numbers , and so on ) . |
| 24 | However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery . |
| 25 | WARRANTY : Name Origin Research undertake to research any surname and to provide such information as is available by proven research . |
| 26 | Is not my hon. Friend a little surprised that the Opposition seek to raise that point , given that the 1990 Act and other measures demonstrate that every major environmental initiative this century has been implemented by a Conservative Government ? |
| 27 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 28 | The findings from the sentence completion study seem to support this argument , in that performance was better on item ( 1 ) than on item ( 2 ) , and performance on item ( 2 ) was better than on ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 29 | Looking to the future we hope to have news of a guest speaker or two for the early part of the summer and also the club intends to have some representation at the Hertfordshire Show . |
| 30 | More recent empirical research tends to confirm this assertion ( Podmore , 1980 ) . |