Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , indomethacin failed to inhibit chemiluminescence when added in vitro to colonic biopsy specimens at concentrations below 100 uM despite a maximum inhibition at 0.08 uM of cyclo-oxygenase in cell free systems . |
| 2 | With a grunt Toby agreed to arrange things and hoped that I would do the driving and that Jefferson intended to provide some decent champagne . |
| 3 | Historically , an exchange was a physical thing ; a room or building where people met to gather information and strike bargains . |
| 4 | I got to find Marie and get my trousers changed . |
| 5 | The communiqué welcomed " the worldwide move " towards pluralist democracy , respect for human rights and the creation of market economies , and acknowledged that the organization must " respond positively and effectively " as more countries sought to establish contacts and develop relations with it . |
| 6 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 7 | All the cases were filed in one of the 11 special courts empowered to try politicians and bar them from politics for up to seven years . |
| 8 | The rebels ' immediate objective was the bridge at Warrington , from which they proposed to swing west and seize Liverpool , an important prize . |
| 9 | A majority of the deputies in parliament rallied to support Pflimlin and reject what they interpreted as de Gaulle 's scarcely concealed blackmail . |
| 10 | When he resigned on March 10 , Avril handed power to the acting Army Chief of Staff and former Foreign Minister , Gen. Herard Abraham , who promised to restore order and to transfer authority to a civilian administration within 72 hours . |
| 11 | Dcm DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferase and the mutant Dcm/Cys177Ser enzyme were produced by overexpression of the respective cloned structural genes in E. coli RP4182 and purified to near homogeneity as described elsewhere ( Hanck and Fritz , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Trelawney tried to shoot Hands but killed another man instead , ’ said Dr Livesey . |
| 13 | Closing her eyes , she tried to regain sleep that had never seemed more elusive . |
| 14 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 15 | Just as physics and chemistry helped to modernize biology and moved it to centre stage during the past thirty years , I believe that biology is about to augment the social sciences greatly and move them to centre stage . |
| 16 | But the ring disbanded , once more because of Stalin 's penchant for secrecy , after Moscow tried to bypass Roessler and go direct to his Number Two . ’ |
| 17 | I REFER to the comments made by an anonymous smoker who mistakenly tried to justify smokers as paying more tax indirectly due to higher Government levy on cigarettes . |
| 18 | But although she tried to speak , actually tried to form words and force them out of her mouth , no words came . |
| 19 | Military and naval attachés were essentially a product of an increasingly tense and competitive international situation ; but in some instances at least their activities helped to deepen tensions and intensify competition . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a war , not between us and the Lebanese , but between us and the Palestinians , who tried to conquer Lebanon and take Lebanon and occupy it . |
| 21 | Walsh crudely hacked down Kay but referee Peck had to send off the Sunderland player , who tried to grab Walsh and struck him in the face . |
| 22 | She pretended to keep appointments and went to the wine shop instead . |
| 23 | He found his best sport was — he tried to watch sports and tell people about them . |
| 24 | The Canadian parliament recently extended patent protection after pharmaceutical companies promised to control prices and to increase their spending on research into new drugs . |
| 25 | Many years ago scientists tried to develop machines that produced speech from a vocabulary of pre-recorded words ; the machines were designed to join these words together to form sentences . |
| 26 | If she was out with other riders on the road , and they stopped to alter stirrups or to open gates , she was walked up and down the road until the others were ready . |
| 27 | The major parties in Congress in August submitted a series of specific measures to then President José Sarney designed to cut spending and to stabilize the economy in order to ward off hyperinflation . |
| 28 | Efforts to improve matters by raising prices and reducing subsidies led to open resistance and had to be rescinded . |
| 29 | She failed to regain consciousness and died two days later in hospital . |
| 30 | ‘ I sit in Lancaster , ’ Newton wrote in that heavy copper-plate hand which seemed to plant sarcasm and doubt on the page by the very nature of its forceful , butting lettering , ‘ like a hen on eggs gone cold . |