Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 2 | One author adopted a new name for religious reasons , both being listed on his thesis , but a search of the bibliography under both names failed to discover publications under either . |
| 3 | One author adopted a new name for religious reasons , both being listed on his thesis , but a search of the bibliography under both names failed to discover publications under either . |
| 4 | courses in Music and Drama , which as a condition of the College remaining separate are arranged in conjunction with the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education , are the only courses in Wales designated to train teachers of these subjects for secondary schools . |
| 5 | The rationale is that traditional financial institutions have in some way failed to find funds for these sectors , as outlined above . |
| 6 | The evidence of the lack of independence was the auditor 's involvement in certain transactions to which the company had been a party ; the petitioner failed to obtain details of these transactions and then proceeded to petition to be bought out of the company . |
| 7 | The sample of staff was structured to reflect the organization of services in each district , for example , where several community mental health teams were operating , we tried to include representatives from each team , and to balance our data between people concerned with care of elderly people and those involved with younger service users . |
| 8 | They do not deny that Social Democrats helped to implant worker-consciousness of such international emblems of solidarity as May Day and assisted in the development of working-class organizations . |
| 9 | If we all tried to see things from more than our own view point , the world would be a better place . |
| 10 | I tried to see Liz about that last week , but that 's anyway , but , but |
| 11 | His father , he added , was a musician and helped to provide work for many unemployed musicians through the Morley College in London by creating an orchestra which Tippett later conducted . |
| 12 | In the meantime , Emilia Lanier tried to provide means for this grandson and his sister , Mary , by claiming in Chancery heritable rights in the patent for the weighing of hay and straw . |
| 13 | For their part , the provinces promised to provide $360,000 to each affected person to cover medical costs and survivor benefits . |
| 14 | Despite widespread agreement that opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales , the Government has until recently tried to increase output from this method . |
| 15 | Alison Rose to write memorandum to all staff asking for suggestions for workshops . |
| 16 | Donald pretended to grow grave at this . |
| 17 | They stopped to feign distraction from another direction , jaws hanging . |
| 18 | While the organisers tried to keep track of all those who attended the conference , many people came and went after the initial registration period . |
| 19 | He went on to propose a Rainbow Curriculum — without actually reading it first — which tried to teach tolerance for all , but in the process had to discuss homosexuality with kids of eight . |
| 20 | But , as Mao grew increasingly suspicious of and isolated from more distinguished revolutionary veterans , he turned increasingly to his secretary for help as he tried to rally support for more radical , leftist policies . |
| 21 | One problem for the Virginia planters was that tobacco could be grown in England ; James I agreed to help the company by making tobacco-growing illegal in England and , although people broke the law and tried to raise tobacco for much of the rest of the century , the American monopoly was eventually made effective . |
| 22 | ( 4.3 ) unc ( 4.4 ) unc On the other hand , when P does terminate immediately , SEQ ( P , Q ) behaves like Q modified to take account of any assignment by P. |
| 23 | They tried to take care of each other and sometimes of me . |
| 24 | Loretta sank into an armchair with one of its arms missing , and tried to make sense of this reception . |
| 25 | It is obvious that a government agency for denationalization can not pride itself of having any ‘ historical background ’ , and whereas the pre-war Hungarian stock exchange followed the pattern of Vienna , Frankfurt , Berlin , and Paris , the new legislation tried to make use of all modern concepts ( which is specifically true of laws against insider trading ) . |
| 26 | So there the subject rested for a while , except that we agreed to purchase coffins at some future date to put by in readiness for the inevitable , but owing to the usual pressures of day-to-day living we never got around to it . |
| 27 | After almost six hours they failed to reach verdicts on any of the defendants , who are said to have used language students as couriers . |
| 28 | The two governments failed to reach agreement on another financial issue , the settlement of Russia 's trade debt to Hungary , estimated at around US$1,700 million . |
| 29 | I got to remember things like that . |
| 30 | He seemed to lose interest after that . |