Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a respondent 's notice dated 21 January 1992 the foster mother sought to contend that the judge 's grant of leave under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 should be affirmed on the grounds that if the Court of Appeal accepted the local authority 's test for the grant of leave to apply under section 10(9) the evidence justified the judge 's order . |
| 2 | The first attempt did not succeed ; mainly , in the view of military historian Gabriel Cardona , because Franco failed to realize that the conquest of a large city like Madrid required massive and concentrated artillery attack , with coordinated and sustained support from the air , not African-style cavalry charges followed by rapid , but unsupported , infantry attack . |
| 3 | A threatened general strike , called by a coalition of unions known as " the Fighting Platform " , failed to materialize as the Army moved in . |
| 4 | When a rat became a competent maze-runner , Lashley removed part of its cerebral cortex and checked to see whether the animal could still find its way through the maze . |
| 5 | ‘ The clothes which were found have been identified as your uncle 's , but have you or your mother checked to see that no others are missing ? ’ |
| 6 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said yesterday : ‘ Nobody checked to see that the cord was hooked up to the crane . |
| 8 | Good to see you checked to see if the wife would be there , okay pretty pointless going through the whole process if , if she has all the facts |
| 9 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 10 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 11 | They failed to see that the principle of subsidiarity as interpreted was inadequate to a modern society . |
| 12 | One swallow does n't make a summer , and neither is a snowfall a portent of the next ice age , but for management a snowfall can be exaggerated , flogged and manipulated to appear that an ice age is imminent . |
| 13 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 14 | The mother sought to establish that the father had ‘ subsequently acquiesced ’ in the removal of the children by her to England and their retention in England . |
| 15 | On the third morning , they arose to find that the blizzard had died down , to be followed by keen frost as the temperature plummeted . |
| 16 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 17 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 18 | Nogai tried to pretend that the threat was of no consequence , but he did not interrupt again . |
| 19 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 20 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 21 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 22 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 23 | Successive Labour spokesmen tried to establish that the Thatcher Government did not have its heart in the health service . |
| 24 | I say a Supertravel ad for a ridiculously cheap week and phoned to find that the price applied not to St Anton , Val d'Isere , Verbier or any of the top resorts I considered worthy of my attention , but to a place called Argentiere which had only seven lifts . |
| 25 | Thérèse tried to remember that the priest represented Christ and must be right . |
| 26 | Robert tried to remember whether the Egyptians had a cricket team and , if so , whether they were any good . |
| 27 | We tried to escape but every time they caught us and beat us . |
| 28 | Gently , Anna tried to suggest that a life free of an ageing queen had a great deal to recommend it . |
| 29 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 30 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |