Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen ceased vibrating , and its walls relaxed . |
| 2 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 3 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 4 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 5 | R. A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 6 | R.A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 7 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 8 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 9 | The budget sought to raise L30,000,000 million ( about US$26,900 million ) in extra revenue through one-off taxes on bank deposits and property , increases in stamp duty and the cost of passports and some licences , and spending cuts achieved especially through a freeze on employment in the civil service and some state companies . |
| 10 | The budget sought spending increases for the departments of Education , Justice , State , Energy , Treasury , and Veterans ' Affairs . |
| 11 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 12 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 13 | CYNTHIA Hirst was disappointed the Budget failed to give substantial help to disabled people . |
| 14 | The motor industry bucked the trend with figures showing that the halving of car tax in the Budget failed to stimulate sales last month . |
| 15 | Mr Major 's budget failed to change their minds . |
| 16 | Champagne became established as a political unit in the early eleventh century when the house of Vermandois united the counties of Troyes and Meaux . |
| 17 | Thus prayer became seen not as formulated exercise , which may or may not concentrate the mind , but as a state of consciousness . |
| 18 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 19 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |
| 20 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 21 | The principle of this case lingers on , although Parliament sought to mitigate its harshness by a special provision which enables publishers of unintentional defamation to make amends without incurring heavy damages . |
| 22 | More important , it was subversive of the control and influence over events which Parliament sought to exercise that the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 23 | If this form of ‘ transition ’ becomes simply a retrograde return to passivity , it can be seen as a complete negation of all that the college course sought to encourage : |
| 24 | The important thing was not whether the decision-maker was performing a judicial or an administrative function but whether the decision made affected the rights of those subject to it . |
| 25 | With the war over and M. Guérigny back from the front , the brother and sister became intoxicated with the experience of freedom . |
| 26 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |
| 27 | But — so much for her wish to escape Fen 's disturbing proximity for a while — after the first few yards beyond the bridge the towpath ceased to exist . |
| 28 | in the second half the South West got going … and came good with three tries … |
| 29 | But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J . |
| 30 | The defence sought to discredit Gravano as a " serial killer " and habitual liar who was seeking to evade life imprisonment by striking a deal with the authorities . |