Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coniston Partners , the New York investment group which holds nearly 12 per cent of UAL , has given the board until January 8 to come up with an alternative to the $6.75billion buyout which failed to take off in October . |
| 2 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 3 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 4 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 5 | They allowed the banking system to respond to demands from capitalists for credit at rates of interest which failed to keep up with inflation ( that is , at declining ‘ real ’ interest rates ) . |
| 6 | Logging firm West Frazer Mills , which planned to cut up to 1.5 million cubic metres of timber in the area , said the decision would result in the loss of 80 jobs . |
| 7 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 8 | The breakthrough came with the middle-of-the-road National Union of Railwaymen , which promised to come up with their target £150,000 ‘ subject to a positive response from a number of other unions ’ . |
| 9 | As the rim brushed her groin Sally felt a sharp sweet pleasure which seemed to shoot up inside her on silken cords to that deep core where the trickles of excitement played every time she thought of Pete . |
| 10 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 11 | They passed a house which seemed to hang perilously onto the hillside . |
| 12 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 13 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 14 | Vitor 's kiss took the whole of her erect nipple into his mouth and she stirred , made restless by the insistent tweak of an invisible wire which seemed to go directly from her breasts to the pulsing nerve-cluster between her thighs . |
| 15 | He was beginning to find pieces which seemed to go together with the hint of a pattern … |
| 16 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 17 | His hands and feet seemed to be constantly moving in almost impossibly splendiferous patterns , his eyes shone like June blackberries and there was music in his voice which seemed to roll up in great hopeful waves from deep in his abdomen . |
| 18 | which seemed to consist mainly of abusing Asquith , were symptomatic of the party 's inability to discover a real sense of direction . |
| 19 | There was a flimsy nightdress which seemed to consist only of feathers and ribbons , and a mysterious stick of what looked like fudge . |
| 20 | It was a groan of hunger , as she writhed in a sudden welter of dumb shyness as his lips and fingers sought intimate places which seemed to scream out to be covered up and left in decent privacy … |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 22 | A stillness which seemed to bear down on her like a physical presence . |
| 23 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 24 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 25 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 26 | The narrow straps seemed barely able to hold her full bosom , which threatened to spill out of the boned bodice with every movement she made . |
| 27 | At first , any hostility centred on the major new roads which would have to be ploughed across untouched farmland to carry extra traffic to the plant and the proposed hostel which threatened to inject up to 700 unmarried building workers into an isolated rural community . |
| 28 | But the modern equivalents of the apothecaries , surgeons , druggists and vets of the past now operate from Driffield , which began to take over from Kilham as the ‘ Capital of the Wolds ’ in the late 18th century and through the 19th . |
| 29 | Much use was made of the memoirs which began to pour forth in the 1920s from figures at court and in the army , from foreign diplomats and correspondents , and from political leaders across the political spectrum . |
| 30 | It formed a slick some 50 km long and 1 km wide which began to drift westwards towards the Nicobar Islands ( a territory of India ) . |