Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 2 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 3 | Fine Arts Brass has always been actively involved in educational projects , and as well as coaching students , is involved in a nationwide series of schools concerts under the banner ‘ Legal and General Concert for Children ’ , which has recently bee expanded to include concerts in Schools for the deaf . |
| 4 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 5 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 6 | In this and other cases a number of problems often arose reflecting lack of control and replicability of measurements , insufficient representativeness , unreliable accuracy of data , and problems of finding suitable methods of analysis of the data collected . |
| 7 | ‘ I was approached here in Paris by a member of the commercial section of the Iranian Embassy and asked to arrange shipment from Brazil , that 's all . |
| 8 | On more than one occasion , Nationalist troops clashed with Japanese forces in China , as Japan , realizing the threat to Japanese interests of a unified China , sought to sustain Zhang in power and impede the Nationalist advance . |
| 9 | When he dropped short outside off stump there would be mutterings that Wilfred was never cut in his entire career ; if he failed to bowl Yorkshire to victory on a wearing pitch , grumblings would be heard that Wardle would have had them out by tea . |
| 10 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 11 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 12 | A notice in the guest 's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest 's property . |
| 13 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 14 | Donors were reportedly disappointed that the government 's plans for economic deregulation , while liberalizing steel imports , failed to deregulate imports of wheat , sugar and cement or to remove government control over domestic prices . |
| 15 | The first international conference on aid to Mongolia , held in Tokyo on Sept. 5-6 and attended by delegations from 14 countries and five international organizations , agreed to grant $155,000,000 for emergency needs over the winter , which included food , medicines and spare parts . |
| 16 | A £1.5m scheme of cash incentives to encourage business development , expected to attract £165,000 from Europe ; |
| 17 | Nicholas , in the course of these encounters , failed to meet John of Kinloch whose regard for him , he rather feared , would be unaltered . |
| 18 | She will attack the Hague declaration , a French initiative signed on March 12 , this year , where 24 heads of state proposed a UN agency empowered to impose sanctions on governments that did not reduce emissions of greenhouse gases . |
| 19 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton and McKinsey & Co. dominated this business , which sought to find guidelines for company regeneration and solutions for management problems . |
| 20 | In 1728 , for example , Lord Milton , in spite of his involvement in the political management of Scotland , failed to secure permission for David Stewart of Ballachallan to purchase the commission of Lieutenant Graham of the Royal Regiment of North British Fusiliers , because the King had prohibited buying , selling or resigning commissions . |
| 21 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 22 | In return US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , agreed to provide Israel with equipment , materials and technology to research and develop new weapons . |
| 23 | In a full memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 17 China agreed to provide protection for US inventions and copyrighted works , including computer software , product patents , sound recordings and trade secrets . |
| 24 | Moreover , he seemed taken aback by their liberalism , which showed concern with the problems of those who failed to pass examinations at school . |
| 25 | Well erm Steve asked to write letters to Penny . |
| 26 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 27 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 28 | But I got to write songs with Dave Anderson and Rab Handleigh for the first time and the reggae ‘ Interference song ’ which Terry Neason sang was a thrill for me as I 'd always wanted to write something for her absolutely amazing voice . |
| 29 | Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak . |
| 30 | The response above would mean that the pupil found using computers in school very exciting , quite interesting and useless for girls . |