Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 2 | The Finance Minister , Adnan Kahveci said on April 12 that Turkey had spent $45,000,000 so far on relief and expected to spend another $50,000,000 to provide food for refugees . |
| 3 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 4 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 5 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 6 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 7 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |
| 8 | He can claim the return of the price he paid to Y. This claim is based upon a breach of contract by Y in that Y did not have the right to sell the goods and failed to confer any ownership upon his buyer , Z ( see paragraph 7–07 below ) . |
| 9 | A Bedale businessman tried and failed to bring more freight traffic to the limestone line . |
| 10 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 11 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 12 | So the transmitter made its debut in sporting terms — and failed to make much impact with the golfing fraternity . |
| 13 | The Committee proposed to raise the maximum penalty for this offence to five years , but limited its recommendation to cases where D actively deceives V and failed to make any provision for cases where D takes advantage of a known mistake . |
| 14 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 15 | I ask for this following a serious breach of security at the prison last Friday , when a visitor inside the prison drew a knife and sought to attack another visitor . |
| 16 | She soon fell victim , and ceased to show any signs of life . |
| 17 | All the signatories — who eventually numbered 64 — renounced war " as an instrument of policy " and agreed to solve all disputes by " pacific means " . |
| 18 | The process whereby rivers have been straightened and lowered to allow all riverside land to be more intensively cropped for grass and grain has often been expensive in terms of both wasted investment and loss of landscape . |
| 19 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 20 | If the poor in model lodging-houses ‘ are kept in bondage , and made to feel that bondage ’ , a more enlightened view in relation to art wishes to persuade them ‘ to adorn their rooms plentifully with a better class of pictures ’ . |
| 21 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 22 | Isaiah Berlin has argued that because educated Russians failed to stage a revolution in 1848 they were " unbroken by the collapse of liberal hopes in Europe in 1849 – 51 " and lived to fight another day . |
| 23 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 24 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 25 | Unless they 've sent for two lots and used used this address for one . |
| 26 | The improved treatment was investigated for patients whose only disorder was severe depression , and found to give much benefit . |
| 27 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He poured it through and tried to light several matches before one took hold and was tossed through the gap , ’ said Mr Joyce . |
| 29 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 30 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |