Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home . |
| 2 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 3 | In the interim , they agreed to carry out further research into land-based disposal . |
| 4 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 5 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after admitting at Teesside Crown Court stealing equipment worth £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 6 | With pal Andrew Christie , 21 , Paul planned to smash up parked cars with the baseball bat . |
| 7 | Under an agreement signed on Sept. 24 Romania agreed to accept back all Romanians who were living illegally in Germany in return for DM30,000,000 in reintegration aid . |
| 8 | John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 . |
| 9 | On the other hand the British government was disturbed to find , early in 1955 , that the credibility of the nuclear deterrent in Europe might be weakened as the Americans tried to spell out differing roles for tactical and strategic nuclear weapons in the defence of the West . |
| 10 | She bent to pick up broken shards of china , gritting her teeth as her head protested . |
| 11 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 12 | While baptism marked one rite de passage , death and burial marked another , and again the Church tried to set out appropriate actions . |
| 13 | But she did n't want that either and tried to smooth over any awkwardness by saying : |
| 14 | The Jamesons themselves were obviously a little bit sheepish about this because Ellen ( the wife ) tried to ward off possible criticism . |
| 15 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 16 | Ernest tried to calm down both women . |
| 17 | We stopped to stare down that slope , more sensed than seen . |
| 18 | This sort of thing was common between the wars , when one East European country after another tried to keep out foreign goods and capital . |
| 19 | For friendship 's sake , Maud tried to keep off political subjects and urged him to stick to his poems and visions . |
| 20 | Augereau ( January–May 1810 ) , advised by sincere afrancesados , tried to clear out these time-servers and appeal to enlightened Catalan opinion in order to convince local patriots of the positive advantages of French rule and a modern system of government . |
| 21 | McKeever and Huling ( 1970a ) tried to get over this problem by presenting a digit at fixation point at the same time as a stimulus appeared in one or other visual field . |
| 22 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 23 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 24 | Notably , the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms helped to root out political patronage and corruption in the state bureaucracy in the second half of the nineteenth century , and to establish a public administration that operated according to principles of professionalism and the ethos of ‘ public service ’ . |
| 25 | At a news conference on Aug. 11 the mayor of Shenzhen admitted that there might have been some mishandling of the issue of forms , and promised to seek out corrupt officials . |
| 26 | By the time the Government tried to close up this loophole , by restricting steel allocations for electric fire manufacture , it was too late . |
| 27 | The hundred shares index rallied to close down twenty-eight point two at twenty-four , o three point seven . |
| 28 | She tried to bolt out several times and she finally made it . |
| 29 | For a brief moment she tried to summon up some form of resistance , as if by an effort of will she could deny her immediate instinctive reaction to his dark enchantment . |
| 30 | The 1978–9 Labour government tried to phase out these beds , but under the 1980 Health Service Act they were extended . |