Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Dr Williams 's library opened he presented himself and asked to see the manuscript of Crabb Robinson 's monumental Diary . |
| 4 | She asked to see the daughter of the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This time he sought to expunge every trace of Existentialism , but retained much of the material from the first draft , including the elements mentioned above . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The High Court heard allegations that each doctor in turn failed to spot a deformity of the left hip . |
| 17 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 23 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 26 | The rain , however , failed to silence the pen of Parsons ( never one to be at a loss for a line or two of copy ! ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |