Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 2 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 3 | Archaeological digs by a team from Newcastle University failed to find any remains of interest in the area to be developed , yesterday 's planning applications sub-committee was told . |
| 4 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 5 | THE benefits of splitting up a business were demonstrated when Racal Electronics reported trebled annual profits . |
| 6 | The raft was defective and settlement occurred causing serious cracks to appear in the houses . |
| 7 | 233 an applicant for judicial review sought to adduce Parliamentary materials to prove a fact . |
| 8 | The real concern is that the remedy applied to suppress these practices may do more long-term damage to the rights of authors and publishers than can be justified by any compensation to the victims of crime or assuaging of the moral outrage achieved by the forfeiture of the proceeds of crime . |
| 9 | The Subversive Stitch sought to disturb stereotypical ideas about women and their art practice ; Out of the Frame to break with the established order , through the use of unorthodox materials , private symbolism , boild styles , and large scale works . |
| 10 | We were told that in the 1960s the revenue sought to tax such employees on that benefit on the basis of the average cost to the airline of providing a seat , not merely on the marginal cost . |
| 11 | By 1993 , 15 of the 153 trains will operate in Wales as part of a £9 million investment planned to keep remote lines viable . |
| 12 | When the champions of either side met to fight spectacular duels in and out of the clouds , the rest of the war seemed forgotten ; even the men in the trenches paused to watch as the hosts of Greece and Troy stood by when Hector and Achilles fought . |
| 13 | Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares . |
| 14 | A third , and crucially important , experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself . |
| 15 | Piaget 's sentence completion study involved asking seven-to nine-year-olds to write completions for each of the following written sentence fragments : |
| 16 | Dot tried to find beautiful pictures like Mrs Hollidaye did , of meadow flowers , and laughing children , cathedrals and fairy coaches . |
| 17 | Indeed certain specimens of O. abyssicola studied showed intermediate characters between the two . |
| 18 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 19 | In the lead mines of the northern Pennines the use of young boys underground seems to have decreased after 1750 when mining practice came to favour longer levels , putting the drawing of ores beyond the strength of children . |
| 20 | The 77-year-old ignored flashing blue lights as he drove nine miles down the middle lane of the M5 at 40mph . |
| 21 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 22 | The PKO bill originated from a bill introduced in 1990 which was designed to allow Japanese forces to participate as non-combatants in support of the UN-authorized multinational force assembled to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the month the United States air force began shipping 120 tonnes of food from military stocks left in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf war . |
| 24 | In response to criticism from both the Public Accounts Committee and Social Services Committee the Department began to develop new ways of trying to achieve the elusive balance between central accountability and local autonomy and bring the management of health care resources under more effective control . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the opposition threatened to resume mass demonstrations if an acceptable political agreement was not reached . |
| 26 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |
| 27 | Cash boost needed to repair Three Peaks Path |
| 28 | Broomhead had tied the cabinet to the rave of the cart , lest it fall over and become more scratched if by any faint chance the horse decided to show some signs of life . |
| 29 | In reaching that conclusion , he was much influenced by the fact that , in a relator action brought to enforce public rights or public law , it is accepted practice , where the relator is a local authority , to require an undertaking in damages from the local authority as in the case of any other relator . |
| 30 | rather ordinary infill GREW to encompass 24 villages , 2416 dwellings and three contract loads ! |