Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Edward probably realized , after the failure of the Rheims campaign , that he lacked the resources to mount the kind of campaign that would be necessary to compel the French to accept the Treaty of London .
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 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 .
5 The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies .
6 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 .
7 I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 If we made the scheme cover the self-employed , then their costs would increase too .
11 It is about time we had some real law and order in our own country and made the sentences fit the crime .
12 They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) .
13 Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter .
14 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 .
15 He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle , applying hard up elevator and full right rudder .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 From being a label past its peak , Chanel became the hottest news in fashion and Lagerfeld made the Chanel suit the number one fashion status symbol of the Eighties .
19 Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres .
20 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 .
21 In 1966 he instigated a military attack led by Idi Amin on the kabaka 's palace and made the arrangements to terminate the other three traditional kingships of Uganda .
22 It was also entitled to ensure that the GP who made the referral understood the implications of his decision .
23 And Hillier was full of praise for the young Gunners who made the crowd forget the absence of Anders Limpar and John Jensen .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Two investigators independently evaluated the films to count the number of markers within the colon .
27 I am sure that the people who inserted the notice had the best of motives .
28 Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration .
29 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 .
30 If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening .
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