Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the author of some works on gardening , but he lacked the experience to produce a much needed comprehensive practical guide book . |
| 2 | Unfortunately from his viewpoint he lacked the skill to handle the matter and the result was a catastrophic decline in his reputation . |
| 3 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 4 | Despite a wealth of playing experience , Gray lacked the motivation to lift a struggling side . |
| 5 | Fundamentally , despite the applicant 's unenviable position , the Court of Appeal lacked the temerity to disturb an order of the House of Lords : |
| 6 | Gates challenged the move in the courts and , on the following day , the Los Angeles city council ( which lacked the authority to overturn the Police Commission decision , but was responsible for the settlement of lawsuits ) ordered the city attorney to settle the suit in favour of Gates . |
| 7 | He lacked the fire to take a firm hand with the woman . |
| 8 | The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies . |
| 9 | Controversial legislation introduced in 1990 empowered the government to nominate a maximum of six non-elected members to the 81-member parliament [ see p. 37574 ] . |
| 10 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 11 | In 1968 the Government introduced the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , which empowered the president to order a newspaper to cease publication when he considered it in the public interest to do so . |
| 12 | The resolution also sought humanitarian aid from all states and international organizations , and empowered the Secretary-General to appoint a co-ordinator to supervise it . |
| 13 | I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 15 | From an ‘ Ideas ’ book , one should n't perhaps expect much in the way of detailed costings of large schemes , but the lack of any attempt to cost even some of the individual measures lent the whole exercise an air of unreality . |
| 16 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 17 | It was recognized that accurate message construction presupposed the capacity to identify the critical features of an item-that is , those features that uniquely identified the target . |
| 18 | If we made the scheme cover the self-employed , then their costs would increase too . |
| 19 | They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) . |
| 20 | Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter . |
| 21 | One night ‘ e wanted money and ‘ e made the landlord buy a gold ticker orf ‘ im . |
| 22 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 23 | Over the years he visited a number of Buddhist centres around the country and he was about 25 when he made the decision to teach the faith through the then newly-acquired Pocklington centre , a grand Georgian house about 15 miles south of York . |
| 24 | He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle , applying hard up elevator and full right rudder . |
| 25 | It was at this nadir that de Gaulle made the decision to create a new political movement , which he called the Rassemblement du Peuple Français ( RPF — Rally of the French People ) . |
| 26 | ‘ In Portugal we 've been restricting our developments to Lisbon and the North , ’ Vitor went on , ‘ but recently my board and I made the decision to bring the d'Arcos style to the Algarve . ’ |
| 27 | Once John Tiller made the decision to become a professional manager , his business acumen surfaced . |
| 28 | In burgh politics the habit of taking quarrels to law made the ability to suspend a legal process or to threaten its resumption a regular tool of the Administration 's local managers . |
| 29 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 30 | More than 300 Londoners made the trip to improve a poor crowd to just under 1,000 and manager Phil Holder was delighted with the performance at the Del Duca Stadium . |