Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately from his viewpoint he lacked the skill to handle the matter and the result was a catastrophic decline in his reputation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If we made the scheme cover the self-employed , then their costs would increase too . |
| 10 | They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) . |
| 11 | Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle , applying hard up elevator and full right rudder . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 17 | But for the men on the shop floor , the new technology presented a difficult choice — either learn new ways , or face redundancy , Those who made the transition found the new working environment very different . |
| 18 | It was also entitled to ensure that the GP who made the referral understood the implications of his decision . |
| 19 | And Hillier was full of praise for the young Gunners who made the crowd forget the absence of Anders Limpar and John Jensen . |
| 20 | The small but respected Republican Party has campaigned effectively against the old system which made the party bosses the real power brokers and not the elected candidates . |
| 21 | But though the forest officers , together with four men and the reeve from each forest vill , and a jury of twelve held their ‘ Speech Court ’ once a year at Kensley in the presence of the deputy constable of St Briavels , the proceedings were largely ineffective : the violent opposition of the commoners frustrated the attempt to enclose the forest wastes . |
| 22 | I am sure that the people who inserted the notice had the best of motives . |
| 23 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 24 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 25 | Erm , We revealed the Queen wants the crown to skip a generation . |
| 26 | The President declared the 64th AGM open and the National General Secretary read the notice convening the meeting . |
| 27 | You see , I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs . |
| 28 | One or two people in the streets talked to me , including the man who sold the corn to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square — in fact he even gave me a kiss . |
| 29 | ADAS and the National Audit Office commissioned the survey to assess the impact of the service on farmers . |
| 30 | He has done his market forecasts and commissioned the author to write the book . |