Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each agreed to provide practical assistance to the other in times of difficulty . |
| 2 | The fund consists of up to 22 sub-funds , each designed to track different markets , including Australia , Hong Kong , Italy , Malaysia , USA and Sweden . |
| 3 | The patients also tended to have lower median proximal oesophageal amplitudes than controls but this failed to reach statistical significance ( 36 v 42 mm Hg ; p=0.1 ) . |
| 4 | When this failed to contain local spending sufficiently , volume targets were introduced together with penalties in the form of loss of central government grant if local authorities exceeded their targets . |
| 5 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |
| 6 | This avoided putting full page ads in Melody Maker , NME and Sounds , and hoping somebody would read them . |
| 7 | Some tried to organize patriotic resistance groups without much success . |
| 8 | They had no subsistence plots to fall back on , some tried reviving traditional handicrafts but these could not compete with the manufactured goods that had been made available by the market system . |
| 9 | This involved using existing data and also meetings with representatives from organisations involved in economic development in the valley . |
| 10 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 11 | This involved rushing several buckets of water into his improvised shelter . |
| 12 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 13 | This involved adding further fields of information relating to these staff to the " persons " data base , including job titles , pay and allowances and the date the person took up his/her present post . |
| 14 | Indirectly , this helped to stimulate industrial development . |
| 15 | This helped to boost domestic food production , but , added to the disruption caused by the war , reduced the volume of crops for export . |
| 16 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 17 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 18 | This began to promote excessive erosion and Aboriginal concerns relating to infringements of their sacred sites which abound in the region . |
| 19 | Some began to negotiate better terms for their own patients which led to accusations of a two-tier service . |
| 20 | When eventually a modus vivendi was reached on 14 September this purported to bring provisional solutions to the most important questions of immediate interest arising between France and Vietnam' . |
| 21 | Many were destroyed , but a few survived to await livelier times . |
| 22 | Although this included controlling overall levels of local government spending , the role of local government was not in question . |
| 23 | This meant installing new plumbing , electrics , draining and the new handpainted pale-coloured units — we did n't realise how much work needed to be done , ’ says Julie . |
| 24 | This meant providing informed answers to a number of questions . |
| 25 | This meant swapping old loans for new , with foreign public funds backing the new debt . |
| 26 | Lenin 's theme in this early period was the need to install an efficient system of accounting and control , and to bring all factories and mines back to full production as soon as possible , even if this meant employing former owners and managers at high salaries . |
| 27 | The roads were usually wide enough for two vehicles to pass without slowing down , but in dry weather this meant enveloping each other in a cloud of choking lava dust . |
| 28 | Roderick was always seeking a better way of putting things in order to remove all possible ambiguities and to assist the reader to the maximum extent : if this meant rewriting 100 times he would gladly do it . |
| 29 | This meant travelling 1,400 miles . |
| 30 | This meant unclasping one hand from the other , and the mite took instant advantage , working its way up into his wrist . |