Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 2 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 3 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 4 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 5 | In an address on March 9 Soglo paid tribute to Kerekou for accepting the political reforms , and promised to work towards consolidating democracy . |
| 6 | His " Basis and directives for a Plan for economic recovery , in harmony with our national reconstruction " viewed the fundamental problem as the Spanish trade deficit , which he proposed to eliminate by massive state intervention to stimulate exports and reduce imports . |
| 7 | John Haden , headmaster of Wymondham College in Norfolk and chairman of the Boarding Schools Association , tried to get beyond dismal economics in his speech to the conference : ‘ I want to move on this week from value-added to added values … we need confidence in the values , moral and spiritual , which our schools uphold and celebrate ’ , he said . |
| 8 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 9 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 10 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 11 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 12 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 13 | In the later Middle Ages canonists and theologians came to see with increasing clarity some of the objections to this view ; and throughout the Middle Ages Christian money-lenders had their ways of evading it . |
| 14 | DR DAVID OWEN , the former SDP leader , gave his endorsement yesterday to Mr Major , saying he deserved to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Bragad was affable enough at the end — said that all things came to pass in good time if they were meant to . |
| 16 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 17 | Then Miss Frances Younghusband came to lecture in general sociology . |
| 18 | She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval . |
| 19 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 20 | Like the dimensions of stone circles , the weights of these objects seemed to peak in definite weight bands , suggesting that they were made to preset weight specifications . |
| 21 | The Witnesses of the Total Merge catalogued all those ships believed to belong to other client species of the Capellans . |
| 22 | Both my husband and myself were members of a number of societies dealing with para-medical subjects such as hypnosis , dowsing and radionics , and through these we came to hear about psionic medicine ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 23 | Finally , the remaining three components seemed to consist of uninterpretable noise . |
| 24 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 25 | In the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries aristocratic society — courtly society — came to look upon sexual love , its desires and its complications , as an absorbing and fashionable subject . |
| 26 | A local region of space itself seemed to writhe in superheated paroxysm , tearing the Titan apart into a maelstrom of spinning vapour . |
| 27 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 28 | On the one hand some psycholinguistic data seemed to point to word-by-word recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 ; Marslen-Wilson & Welsh 1978 ) . |
| 29 | But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat . |
| 30 | And even so , she deserved to die for attempted treason . |