Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
| 2 | In 1894 , the Board agreed to erect an entirely new school for 400 boys at an estimated cost , ex-land , of £2,800 . |
| 3 | During the course of April , the feelers put out earlier by Baghdad were followed up ; both Talabani and Barzani participated in talks with the Iraqi leadership in which the Kurds sought to secure a more workable version of the autonomy negotiated in 1970 . |
| 4 | Most of such work was unsuitable for operating in winter when unemployment was highest and when carried out with an untrained labour force it was expensive or inefficient , and failed to attract the temporarily unemployed artisans for whom it was intended . |
| 5 | A final class sought to find the most ‘ humerous . ’ |
| 6 | The company also agreed to provide a more adequate explanation of changes in accounting policy in future , and the Panel welcomed the directors ' intention ‘ to ensure that future notes will include reiteration of the former policy as well as a description of the new policy ’ . |
| 7 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 8 | The soviet Union and the Arab states knew that the United States promised to remain a substantially stronger player in the region . |
| 9 | The classification of gastritis was according to the Whitehead system modified to include the newly described entities of lymphocytic and chemical gastritis . |
| 10 | I tried to find a more comfortable position but there was n't one , really . |
| 11 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 12 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't give that man the benefit of any more conversation , ’ he snapped as Miss Hall moved to answer an entirely reasonable question from Bruce Anderson of the Sunday Express . |
| 14 | In a reply tailored to annoy the traditionally catholic and latinate institution , McMurdo insisted they use ‘ the Queen 's English ’ . |
| 15 | The pilot flipped up the door , and Duroc bent to avoid the still slowly circling blades as he stepped down onto the tarmac . |
| 16 | Lydia tried to imagine a more suitable bride for the dour Hywel and could see only a dim , faintly female version of himself . |
| 17 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 18 | These computations were not seen as hard to explain until engineers tried to programme the newly available ‘ computer ’ to perform them . |
| 19 | He finally succumbed to an uppercut and a big right in the 11th , yet rose to pursue a clearly lost cause until the end , the final bell being greeted with a standing ovation . |
| 20 | Their suspicions were heightened by the case of S. G. Nechaev ( 1847–82 ) , an amoral firebrand who tried to build a rigidly disciplined organization by brazen deception , and to assert his own authority by involving his fellow conspirators in the murder of one of their number . |
| 21 | Built in the early 1980s to meet spiralling demand in Surrey 's golf-crazy commuter heartland , it helped to solve a seemingly impossible problem for many budding golfers . |
| 22 | He descended to the fourth floor platform and stopped to scrutinise the dimly lit , fog shrouded alley below , searching keen eyed for signs of the hidden watcher he knew would be there . |
| 23 | Police tried to subdue the more unruly elements of the crowd . |
| 24 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 25 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 26 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 27 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 28 | On this occasion , as an added piquancy , the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour . |
| 29 | The productivity of their capital equipment , however , was lower : the top firms spent money on technology ( like flexible-manufacturing systems ) designed to get the most out of employees , rather than trying to replace men with machines . |
| 30 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |