Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local government statute of early 1864 duly established the zemstvos , elective bodies at provincial and district level empowered to improve a range of local facilities from transport , credit , and insurance to health and education . |
| 2 | The 130,000 postal workers agreed to return to work three days later when the Interior Ministry agreed to make a payment of DM650-900 per employee . |
| 3 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 4 | At a recent Labour national executive meeting the leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament failed to get a seconder from either left or right for a motion to have this whole issue discussed by the party conference . |
| 5 | Jane was in a junk food café trying to eat chips off a floppy paper plate and drink red wine three-quarters full of ice , when a young man with long hair entered carrying a guitar , ‘ Ugh — do n't like him , ’ said her host 's son , aged sixteen . |
| 6 | The route promised to throw a variety of weather at us . |
| 7 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 8 | Sadly , Beneficial is not even entered — an oversight made to look a touch embarrassing when he smashed the Chester course record earlier this month in the Dee Stakes . |
| 9 | Labour sought to play a role in achieving those goals . |
| 10 | Labour planned to ensure a nursery place was available for every three and four-year-old whose parents wanted it . |
| 11 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 12 | Gordon Middleton , on the right , and Alan Hill , were riding with the Vale of Aylesbury Hunt when a horse failed to clear a gate and became trapped across it . |
| 13 | The club failed to meet a Thursday midnight deadline set by the High Court for payment of £22.8 million to Cabra for the purchase of Stamford Bridge . |
| 14 | Oldham 4 , Middlesbro 1 MIDDLESBROUGH manager Lennie Lawrence launched a blistering broadside after his side failed to halt a slump of just one win in 12 games . |
| 15 | The task force planned to cut a track through a corridor of forest running along the edge of the settlement to the elephants ' new sanctuary 50 km away . |
| 16 | The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun . |
| 17 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 18 | We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum . |
| 19 | Fashion dictated a filmy sheath that would scarcely cover the breasts and with a skirt slit to reveal a length of thigh barely disguised beneath a flimsy petticoat , but Lucille had neither the tastes nor the money for such nonsense . |
| 20 | He begins to read , beautifully , lyrically , with heartfelt empathy , a poem by Wole Soyinka in which the poet tried to rent a room in London in the 1950s , and the landladies on the telephone ask him just precisely how black he is . |
| 21 | A soldier tried to shove a bayonet into his throat , but the steel buckled against his adam 's apple superconductor . |
| 22 | One witness described seeing a plume of moke and a ball of fire and then seeing a body on the road . |
| 23 | Here was a president and prime minister from fundamentally different sides of the political spectrum ; a president reported to bear a grudge against the Tories for their part in Bush 's muck-raking campaign in the election . |
| 24 | As a bad sign of liberated times , the opposition tried to call a press conference on the morning of Mr Baker 's arrival , only to find it did not have official permission to do so . |
| 25 | Socially , the employee dismissed following a conviction will — whether the dismissal was fair or otherwise — find re-employment difficult , though it is worth noting that at least one tribunal has decided that such an employee is not bound to disclose the reason for his dismissal to a prospective employer ( Mackin v J. Carr Ltd , 1974 IRLR ) . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal , with regret , rejected their claim on the ground that , although the relevant statutory provision declared a dismissal to be unfair if the reason for it was that the employee proposed to join a trade union or take part in union activities , the provision was ‘ not concerned with an employer 's reactions to a trade union 's activities , but with his reactions to an individual employee 's activities in a trade union context ’ ( Sir John Donaldson MR ) . |
| 27 | In the run-up to the 1938 election , the President tried to replace a number of conservative southern Senators with candidates more favourable to the New Deal . |
| 28 | The automobile industry helped to boost a host of other industries , with its demand for steel , rubber , plate glass , leather and textiles . |
| 29 | A warm excited thrill ran through my veins , my blood seemed to give a bound , and then raced fast and hot along its channels . |
| 30 | Sprake was exceptionally good at pulling off the nearly impossible saves but his mind seemed to wander a bit ( perhaps back to the Valleys ) . |