Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 reported that the European Communities ( EC ) had also allocated a grant of ECU150,000,000 ( about US$207,000,000 ) to Jordan as one of the countries most affected by the Gulf War , and during a visit by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on Feb. 14 [ see p. 37989 ] Germany agreed to provide further aid . |
| 2 | Queen Isabella and Mortimer sought to gain popular support by a conciliatory policy regarding the forest . |
| 3 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 4 | Moon tapped the penalty and tapped again when Cardiff failed to retreat 10 yards . |
| 5 | DEC EXPECTED TO LAUNCH FIRST ALPHA PERSONAL COMPUTER ON MAY 25 |
| 6 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 7 | The CGT promised to respect any agreements reached . |
| 8 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 9 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 10 | Part of this settlement was to create a Servian buffer state , and both Sigismund and Murad agreed to recognise Djuradj Branković as the legitimate ruler of an independent Serbia . |
| 11 | In any case , a recent mass stranding of pilot whales on the eastern coast of the United States failed to reveal any Stenurus in the air sinuses . |
| 12 | November : Thailand and Madagascar agreed to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level , with effect from Nov. 30 . |
| 13 | Sunderland , playing their fourth match in seven days , made four changes as caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby tried to find fresh legs and a reserve of stamina from his injury-hit first team squad . |
| 14 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 15 | The hearing revealed that Raybestos proposed to dump 400 lbs . |
| 16 | Volvo promised to create extra work for the two plants and to provide ‘ substantial investment ’ . |
| 17 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 18 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 19 | In one way or another Bede helped to concentrate educated minds in the succeeding generations on the Old Testament . |
| 20 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |
| 21 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 22 | In 1293 , as relations with France deteriorated , plans for a full-scale campaign via Gascony and Flanders came to dominate internal politics during the ensuing years . |
| 23 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
| 24 | By 1989–90 , the government 's grants had risen to 82 million to support expenditure on 15 ‘ activities of national priority ’ , with LEAs encouraged to seek additional funding from outside the public sector . |
| 25 | The process was assigned to the Cassel Company , international patents obtained , and MacArthur began to train young chemists and dispatch them with plant to virtually every gold-producing country . |
| 26 | It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Lang pressed to support Euro call for PR |
| 28 | The United States began to buy more consumer goods from abroad than it exported in 1959 ; by 1969 the deficit was $4 billion ; in 1968 the balance on cars became negative . |
| 29 | All the same Meredith began to pay some attention to the girl . |
| 30 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |