Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of wines produced using traditional cultivation methods is increasing and standards governing these are being introduced in several countries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One development that did not have too much to do with NT was the coming together of Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc to announce that they will work together to establish , support and implement open standards for network printing management : the four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network . |
| 4 | The four agreed to support Simple Network Management Protocol as a standard for managing peripherals on a local area network . |
| 5 | The report concluded by stating that Orkney Islands Council failed to implement good working practice as required by the Scottish Office . |
| 6 | Other marine life expected to suffer included coral reefs , algae and sea grass . |
| 7 | In 1947 the president of the Board of Trade in Attlee 's Labour government , a young and aspiring politician called Harold Wilson , agreed to grant special export licences to Russia for two Rolls Royce jet engines , the Nene and the Derwent . |
| 8 | It refused to sign the 1988 accounts when the thrift failed to meet minimum capital standards . |
| 9 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 10 | Lloyd George sought to obtain regular press support through the direct means of ownership . |
| 11 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 12 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 13 | Colin , 32 , and Geoffrey Newton , 26 , both of Myddleton Lane , Winwick , Warrington , admitted applying false trade descriptions to three cars and supplying three others with false trade descriptions . |
| 14 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 15 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 16 | As time went by , the casino diversified to embrace other gambling games — pontoon , for example , knock-out whist and finally bezique . |
| 17 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 18 | In 1972 , the government tried to promote new mining ventures with the Mineral Exploration and investment Grants Act . |
| 19 | Budget estimates have to include their purpose and cost alongside the traditional expenditure items devoted to like functions-pension tax relief alongside pension expenditure . |
| 20 | In 1987 the Compagnie du Midi , the French financial and insurance group , moved to acquire British life insurer Equity & Law , which was also under siege from the New Zealand entrepreneur Sir Ron Brierley , whose interests owned 29.6 per cent of Equity & Law . |
| 21 | The story of St Wulstan 's Hospital forms a fascinating footnote to the narrative of events at Powick , which illustrates that Worcester Health Authority was as much locally impelled to rationalize mental health services , as pushed to do so by the centre . |
| 22 | One involved using whole word shape to help determine segment positions and to allow for letter shape variations within words . |
| 23 | The business proposition ‘ involved using specialised IT applications to develop a bespoke service to the design , construction and maintenance of buildings , with an integrated costing service that enabled design , build and cost to be integrated ’ . |
| 24 | Whilst desktop publishing software has the power to manipulate text and graphics created using conventional business software it is , thankfully , totally incapable of controlling the presentation and style without some degree of human intervention . |
| 25 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 26 | The companies involved included two car plants , six cement companies , a chemical plant , an engineering firm , a fertilizer plant , eight ghee factories and 11 roti plants . |
| 27 | The economic evidence of the failure of Sunday trading is summarised by the trade magazine Supermarketing , whose latest research shows little evidence that seven-day opening helped to increase overall grocery spending . |
| 28 | When the Liberals in 1911 again proposed to grant Irish Home Rule , Sir Edward Carson , later Lord Carson , led the mainly Protestant six counties ' resistance to being a minority in a mainly Catholic Ireland — the objection still made today . |
| 29 | England invited to tour Soviet Union David Plummer greets the arrival at Twickenham of the first Soviet national rugby team to visit the British Isles . |
| 30 | The agreement also promised to open low-ranking teaching posts to Koreans , to give automatic permanent residential status to third- and later generation Koreans in Japan , and to make Koreans subject to deportation orders only if convicted of crimes against Japan 's national security . |