Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 2 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 3 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 4 | The contributors , Roman Catholic priests and TM teachers among them , sought to harmonise the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with their own views of Christianity . |
| 5 | Application of human recombinant bFGF ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour subcutaneously ) failed to affect the formation of acute gastric lesions induced by 100% ethanol and acidified aspirin but reduced the stress induced by gastric lesions . |
| 6 | She also sought to compare the impact of wife rape with the impact of rape by strangers and others , and found that 65 per cent . |
| 7 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 8 | Literaturnaya Gazeta applied to interview the head of the department in charge of Armenian rebuilding in the Soviet Ministry of Building in Moscow , but he refused . |
| 9 | It made much of ‘ flexibility ’ but in a way which implied that only certain versions of flexibility were permitted , and it failed to treat the notion of ‘ good practice ’ as the problematic issue it manifestly is . |
| 10 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 11 | Yet it was privately admitted in Washington that American interests might suffer if British and Commonwealth forces ultimately failed to contain the Indonesian threat , and in December 1964 both governments agreed to acknowledge the importance of each other 's military efforts " in support of legitimate governments in South-East Asia , particularly in Malaysia and South Vietnam " . |
| 12 | This information , based on the official records of Returning Officers , will initially be compiled for the 1981 elections and then expanded to include the results of those contests due in May 1985 . |
| 13 | Although arterial infusion of TDCA ( 100 µmol/l ) significantly inhibited motor activity , it failed to stimulate the release of PYY ( 67 ( 10 ) pmol/l v 93 ( 22 ) pmol/l ; p>0.05 , n=5 ) . |
| 14 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
| 15 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 16 | Then after I got half way along the I used to go down to that was another place where there was two more bungalows , you see , and then come out of there and go away to call on some more houses until I got to Miss the finish of the round . |
| 17 | We now turn to consider these cases , before examining in the next section the legislation passed to implement the judgment of the European Court in Malone . |
| 18 | The National Old People 's Welfare Committee , later called Age Concern , sought to promote the welfare of old people throughout the United Kingdom and relieve the conditions which were revealed by the war . |
| 19 | They ranged from a tiny mouse , with lifelike whiskers and a twitchy nose , to a metre-high Pied Piper , whose grin was so wickedly triumphant that she almost expected to see the children of Hamlin following behind . |
| 20 | The rain , however , failed to silence the pen of Parsons ( never one to be at a loss for a line or two of copy ! ) . |
| 21 | THE BBC yesterday agreed to curb the promotion of magazines tied to its television programmes in response to a report by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 22 | The movement towards caveat venditor , at least in consumer sales , was confirmed by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 which sought to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) . |
| 23 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
| 24 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 25 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 26 | Geoffroy Saint Hilaire uncoupled transmutationism from the idea of a linear scale , but again failed to see the importance of geographical factors . |
| 27 | For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars . |
| 28 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 29 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 30 | After some discussion the Congress agreed to include the objective of a ‘ union of sovereign states ’ in its Programmatic Declaration . |