Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [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 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And last night SmithKline heard that its Tagamet asthma drug failed to get full approval in the US . |
| 5 | The five other parties contesting the election failed to secure sufficient support to gain representation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ironically , the legislation introduced to reform campaign funding helped to facilitate increased spending in politics . |
| 10 | Work towards quality award helped to create greater teamwork |
| 11 | If any foolish mine-owner tried to cheat Blue Cap of his rightful wages , the ghost would assume the form of a blue flame and scorch the inside of the mine-shaft , weakening the pylons which supported the roof . |
| 12 | No deterioration in hepatic synthetic function occurred following successful TIPSS ( Table III ) . |
| 13 | We suspect , however , that the reason for the low positivity in their experiment could be due to differences in sensitivity , and this study failed to include positive control tissue infected with tuberculosis to detect this . |
| 14 | Only two patients in this study failed to achieve long term functional success . |
| 15 | Yet the prospects for the people who live in blighted cities are bleak unless as a bare minimum there is a recognition across the political spectrum of the specificity and the extent of racial inequity in both the UK and the USA , a reconsideration of democratic involvement at both the local state and national state levels , and an attempt made to locate urban policy within local economic strategy ; urban policy needs to be conceptually disentangled from regional policy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers ' decisions would the Code be discredited — as a paper tiger . |
| 18 | Charges were never pressed and the image of Scottish football lived to die another day . |
| 19 | said : ‘ It appears to me that , when the plaintiffs demanded payment of their debt , and in consequence of that application the defendant agreed to give certain security , although there was no promise on the part of the plaintiffs to abstain for any certain time from suing for the debt , the effect was , that the plaintiffs did in effect give , and the defendant received , the benefit of some degree of forbearance ; not indeed , for any definite time but , at all events , some extent of forbearance . ’ |
| 20 | The research or training outcomes will be clearly delineated , and the programme devised to ensure adequate monitoring of progress , use of the facilities , and the eventual attainment of the objectives . |
| 21 | The study sought to identify existing management systems used by farmers , both small and large farmers operating primarily in the areas of mixed and arable husbandry . |
| 22 | On June 27 the liberal opposition failed to win sufficient support to set up a parliamentary inquiry . |
| 23 | The US administration agreed to provide unspecified aid for development and reconstruction . |
| 24 | Meyer 's corporate publications had claimed that the timber industry helped to slow global climate change , provided economic benefits to developing countries and had a minor role in the destruction of tropical forests compared to those played by farmers and population growth . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Labour told to fight Tory spivvery |
| 27 | However , even when research came to recognize this exaggeration and to examine the diversity of local service provision , local politics remained shrouded in mystery . |
| 28 | At the Oscars , Marlon Brando 's powerhouse performance as a punch-drunk boxer hired to do strong-arm work for a corrupt union boss , blew away everything in sight . |
| 29 | Then , as we turned onto the main road — a dual carriageway — a car came careering full speed down the road on our side . |
| 30 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |