Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Bosch GmbH and Northern Telecom Ltd have joined forces to establish a transmission technology joint venture , expected to include Synchronous Digital Hierarchy kit . |
| 2 | The newspaper asked to see any responsible official — none was available . |
| 3 | The Convention , partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions , sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems . |
| 4 | Sucralfate ( 100–200 mg/kg given orally ) protected gastric mucosa against the ethanol , aspirin , and stress induced acute gastric lesions but the addition of bFGF ( 100 µg/kg subcutaneously or intragastrically ) failed to affect sucralfate induced protection against ethanol or aspirin but increased that against stress . |
| 5 | In 1992-93 , Trainload Freight expected to carry 18.35 million tonnes of freight for PowerGen , but that figure is now likely to be as high as 19.6 million tonnes . |
| 6 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 7 | I failed to arrange any stereotypical symbol of masculinity in the porch where all visitors would see it instantly : a pair of size ten wellingtons , a cricket fixture list , a rifle perhaps . |
| 8 | Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating agreed to restore Australian military assistance to Fiji , suspended since 1987 , after a private meeting with the new Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka , the leader of the two coups . |
| 9 | Kenya and Uganda agreed to restore full diplomatic relations after a meeting between Moi and Uganda 's President Museveni in August 1990 . |
| 10 | Uganda and Kenya agreed to restore full diplomatic relations after a meeting between Museveni and Kenya 's President Moi at the border town of Malaba ( Kenya ) in August 1990 . |
| 11 | In a related development , the two countries in February 1990 set up a special " hotline " to notify each other of oil spills in the Barents Sea and agreed to arrange joint oil-pollution control exercises . |
| 12 | Although a consensus on the final declaration was blocked after a dispute between Mexico and the USA over nuclear testing , signatories agreed to support compulsory international inspection in countries suspected of secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | Hampstead Unionists agreed to support one such fund by levying a guinea subscription from all members of their Executive Committee — a decision that says much about the composition of the Executive Committee itself . |
| 14 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 15 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 16 | When subjects are interrupted on going to sleep and asked to report any mental activity whatsoever they usually have something to say about what was going on in their minds . |
| 17 | The British driver , whose Formula One career ended in acrimony when he failed to agree new financial terms with Williams , could not resist a jibe at old rivals Senna and Frenchman Alain Prost , who has taken his place at Williams . |
| 18 | Early anatomists sought to arrange all living things linearly , on a single ‘ ladder of nature ’ : man was about half-way up , with angels , archangels , and powers above him , and a sequence of animals below . |
| 19 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 20 | A sanitary code which sought to evade fundamental moral principles could never ultimately succeed . |
| 21 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 22 | In their protest they sought to restore some political coals to Newcastle : the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 committed the lay and ecclesiastical nobles of Scotland to support Robert Bruce , who stood against proud Edward 's army , and sent him homeward to think again . |
| 23 | The executive council meeting in November agreed to draft new international standards on the prevention of industrial accidents , noting with concern the frequency and severity of industrial disasters in recent years . |
| 24 | As early as 1920 , therefore , a special commission on the history of the party and the October revolution was set up and empowered to gather all relevant documentary material — from party archives to the records of the tsarist secret police and the memoirs of participants in the great events . |
| 25 | However this sketch hardly rises above a ‘ Dallas'-type description and Stotland failed to provide any empirical grounding for his arguments . |
| 26 | Interestingly , base substitutions made to obtain two G-C basepairs at positions 10–25 and 11–24 in the D-stem ( a207 ) increased the yield of Ψ40 with more than 3 times compared to the situation in wt-like tRNA Asp ( mutant a ) . |
| 27 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 28 | The showpiece projects are the Concord Centre and Glass City expected to attract two million visitors and 2,000 jobs . |
| 29 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 30 | He could not , however , turn this sympathy to good effect and his New Party , formed in March 1931 with the aid of £50,000 from William Morris , the later Lord Nuffield , failed to attract widespread political support and collapsed into political oblivion at the general election of October 1931 . |