Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1897 he obtained a post at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , and planned to enter Imperial College , London , with a studentship in 1898 , intending to become a botany teacher . |
| 2 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
| 3 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |
| 4 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 5 | Madrid was driven by its competition with the more advanced States of north-western Europe ( and shortly to be overwhelmed by the Napoleonic wars ) , and failed to draw salutary lessons from Britain 's loss of its North American colonies . |
| 6 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 7 | You stole from the dead , and failed to deliver certain information to the King 's Justices or to the Sheriff . |
| 8 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , said in an interview in the Police Review this month that the complaints procedures had become almost unworkable , and failed to command public confidence — and particularly of ethnic minorities . |
| 9 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 10 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 11 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 12 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 13 | Halley claims that Sonnabend are disorganised and failed to make suitable contact with collectors and museums interested in his work . |
| 14 | We prospectively determined the prevalence and outcome of hypoxaemia in children with respiratory illness presenting to an urban referral hospital in Kenya and sought to correlate clinical signs with its presence . |
| 15 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 16 | Then he gave way and agreed to remain Prime Minister , an eminence for which he professed no enthusiasm . |
| 17 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 18 | Oil ministers of the 13 member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) met in Geneva on May 2-3 and agreed to cut total oil production to about 22,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in order to stabilize prices [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 19 | A Council resolution of 7 June 1991 also emphasised separately the importance it attached to the training of arts administrators and agreed to encourage existing initiatives in this area at a European level . |
| 20 | On intimation claim forms and front sheets must be prepared accurately and checked giving particular attention to : — |
| 21 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 22 | She was charged with sorcery by his successor , Richard III , and made to do public penance before being imprisoned . |
| 23 | For example , the index of the information system was computerised in 1986 and at the same time was expanded , and made to encompass extensive cross-referencing ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 24 | Yesterday Gregory , 35 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted handling stolen goods . |
| 25 | All the originals are locked to prevent accident but the elements can be ungrouped and manipulated to create new designs or , given a colour system , you can try adjusting the colours of the elements and backgrounds — often ending up with an entirely new feel . |
| 26 | The discussion of export cartels in the previous section has pointed to the possibility that competition policy might be designed and applied to protect domestic markets and to promote domestic producers in export markets . |
| 27 | Work on the site for the stalls began three weeks ago and involved installing individual water standpipes to allow each trailer to link up with a hose . |
| 28 | The parents contended that the shortest route in the case of their 12-year-old daughter was not truly ‘ available ’ because it was isolated and unlit and involved crossing difficult terrain . |
| 29 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
| 30 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |