Example sentences of "which [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 2 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 3 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 4 | Logging firm West Frazer Mills , which planned to cut up to 1.5 million cubic metres of timber in the area , said the decision would result in the loss of 80 jobs . |
| 5 | It was a groan of hunger , as she writhed in a sudden welter of dumb shyness as his lips and fingers sought intimate places which seemed to scream out to be covered up and left in decent privacy … |
| 6 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 7 | At first , any hostility centred on the major new roads which would have to be ploughed across untouched farmland to carry extra traffic to the plant and the proposed hostel which threatened to inject up to 700 unmarried building workers into an isolated rural community . |
| 8 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |
| 9 | Five seconds later they opened again , and I was in a wide corridor which appeared to lead right to the rear of the building . |