Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen ceased vibrating , and its walls relaxed . |
| 2 | Metaphors became mixed and feelings ran high . |
| 3 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 4 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 5 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 6 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 7 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 8 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 9 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 10 | Perfusion of the stomach with saline for four hours failed to cause any mucosal damage at the macroscopic and histological level ( n=4 ) . |
| 11 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 12 | R. A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 13 | R.A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 14 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 16 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 17 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 18 | The budget sought to raise L30,000,000 million ( about US$26,900 million ) in extra revenue through one-off taxes on bank deposits and property , increases in stamp duty and the cost of passports and some licences , and spending cuts achieved especially through a freeze on employment in the civil service and some state companies . |
| 19 | The budget sought spending increases for the departments of Education , Justice , State , Energy , Treasury , and Veterans ' Affairs . |
| 20 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 21 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 22 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 23 | The motor industry bucked the trend with figures showing that the halving of car tax in the Budget failed to stimulate sales last month . |
| 24 | Mr Major 's budget failed to change their minds . |
| 25 | Champagne became established as a political unit in the early eleventh century when the house of Vermandois united the counties of Troyes and Meaux . |
| 26 | Employers agreed to pay on December 1st nearly the full wage hike they promised to give on April 1st . |
| 27 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 28 | Though there was consensus among most delegates that production cuts were needed to avoid an oil glut which would weaken prices as demand dipped in the spring , the discussions became bogged down with claims by Kuwait for special treatment . |
| 29 | An Italian government proposal to establish a central register of suspicious operations failed to gain parliamentary approval . |
| 30 | Moreover , at the critical moment at least one of the mines failed to go off . |