Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Figure 4.3 ( opposite ) ( a ) Contour map produced using dot-graphics functions on a Mannesman-Tally MT86 dot-matrix printer . |
| 4 | In summer 1984 the Commission of the EC agreed to suspend legal proceedings against IBM in return for the following main concessions : |
| 5 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 6 | At the 1921–2 Washington Conference Japan agreed to restore Chinese sovereignty in Shandong , but only in return for Chinese confirmation of Japan 's economic privileges there . |
| 7 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 8 | In practice , the Bank of England ceased using special deposits after 1980 . |
| 9 | Mikhail Gorbachev avoided touching sensitive nerves during his Berlin visit , though he , too , hinted at the need for change . |
| 10 | On the border issue , both sides agreed to continue intensive discussions on the remaining disputed sectors . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The Government failed to provide adequate protection of pensions and it has a moral responsibility to help the Maxwell pensioners . ’ |
| 13 | A long time member of Martha Graham 's company and for many years her regular partner , Cohan became founding artistic director of London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1967 . |
| 14 | Using the example of Cartwright at the Oxford Delegacy , Shearman sought to establish similar arrangements at Cambridge because : |
| 15 | Among the Anglo-Saxons Charlemagne sought to establish good relations with Northumbria . |
| 16 | In May 1989 I first introduced a ten-minute rule Bill — the Public Service Contract Bill — which sought to establish minimum standards of public service with automatic compensation for failure . |
| 17 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The search of Clinton 's files had been ordered in September 1992 , at the height of the election campaign , in an effort to find evidence that the Democratic candidate had , while a student in the UK , sought to obtain foreign nationality as a means of avoiding being drafted for service in the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | Before clearing out my desk at the Times-Herald I had a quiet word with Fred Workman who agreed to accept free-lance stories from me . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson , speaking in Lerwick , agreed to accept written submissions after the deadline on Sunday . |
| 22 | Members of the ruling class sought to increase agricultural production by land reclamation and other projects , and farmers diversified into alternative crops and non-agricultural by-employment to supplement their incomes , but the ruling class was not keen to allow Japan 's farmers to reap the benefits of any increase . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 25 | It also agreed to request international assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Cambodia . |
| 26 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 27 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |
| 28 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 29 | The US administration agreed to provide unspecified aid for development and reconstruction . |
| 30 | WEC failed to obtain new work in both the roads and multi-discipline sectors , and whilst some success was achieved in procuring water treatment contracts , conditions in all sectors of the market remain intensely competitive . |