Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 3 | In one case , the High Court turned down a complaint that an authority failed to provide unstressful transport for a child because regulations governing ‘ statementing ’ do not require an authority to specify that there should be non-stressful transport . |
| 4 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 7 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 8 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 9 | The total number of boat people in Hong Kong had reached some 56,000 as of October 1989 [ see p. 36975 ] , and the UK had in January 1990 failed to secure international approval for a policy of involuntary repatriation [ see pp. 37121-22 ; 37185 ] . |
| 10 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 11 | It also agreed to request international assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia . |
| 12 | The US administration agreed to provide unspecified aid for development and reconstruction . |
| 13 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 14 | In one case , in which three different cuckoos parasitised the nest of a great reed warbler , one chick was thrown out soon after hatching : the other two then tried to eject each other for four days . |
| 15 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 16 | Like other state-sector workers , the Government promised to find new jobs for those they laid off , but in reality most have been left to their fate without support . |
| 17 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 18 | Unless they 've sent for two lots and used used this address for one . |
| 19 | THE European Commission yesterday promised to set minimum prices for some fish in an attempt to placate French trawlermen who went on the rampage at Paris 's wholesale food market in a second day of anger at low prices and British imports . |
| 20 | Volvo promised to create extra work for the two plants and to provide ‘ substantial investment ’ . |
| 21 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 22 | WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo . |
| 23 | English Electric Class 37s in particular were subjected to near-total rebuilds , involving replacement of the main generator with an alternator , regeared CP7 bogies , and in some cases Ruston or Mirrlees power unit , electric-heat generator , or ballast weights added to provide extra adhesion for particular freight work . |
| 24 | In the 1950s the perennial problems of unstable governments and widespread poverty that were so typical of the region seemed to provide fertile ground for revolutionary movements — and revolution , in official American eyes , was frequently the agency of international communism . |
| 25 | He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat . |
| 26 | Both acute and chronic pancreatitis seemed to cause less need for a stay in hospital in Finnish women than in Finnish men . |
| 27 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 28 | We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’ |
| 29 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 30 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |