Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper asked to see any responsible official — none was available . |
| 2 | The Convention , partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions , sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However this sketch hardly rises above a ‘ Dallas'-type description and Stotland failed to provide any empirical grounding for his arguments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Bank itself commissioned a study which noted that approximately a third of its projects failed to meet these rigorous criteria . |
| 14 | The association 's leaders , who in two days of talks failed to secure any significant improvement in the the 9 per cent , 18-month offer thrown out last month , said that the ballot form would ask if members supported sanctions , possibly including action which would disrupt services to patients . |
| 15 | A Board of Associateship was set up to manage the new regulations for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians , and delegated to the Association 's expert Sub-Committee on Training the task of detailed assessment of the training programmes designated to meet these new regulations . |
| 16 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
| 17 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 18 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 19 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 20 | The Consultation Paper failed to provoke any public excitement for the idea of regional government beyond the Liberal Party and a few academic writers . |
| 21 | On the contrary , electorates in many countries turned to the political leaders who promised to implement these new policies — Mrs Thatcher in the UK , President Reagan in the United States , and Chancellor Kohl in West Germany . |
| 22 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 23 | Other people 's lives bored him and he became sharp and irritable on the one occasion Lucien tried to impart some interesting snippet of information Azmaveth had told him . |
| 24 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
| 25 | The flurry of critical publications by ex-detenus after the Emergency helped to attract some extra finance towards prisons , as well as fuelling the pressure which led to the setting up of Justice Mulla 's committee . |
| 26 | She tried to relate this sudden vision of the things of the pieties of the Dodson sisters to Daniel 's Mum 's instructions about how to cook Christmas pudding , and largely failed . |
| 27 | No charge may be levied on any employee for anything done or provided to meet any specific requirement of health and safety at work legislation . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 29 | As the long silence lengthened between them Laura desperately tried to find some adequate words to express her disgust at his actions . |
| 30 | I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’ |