Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker did not get very far , but having decided to leave , met the son-in-law returning , outside the flat . |
| 2 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 3 | If you did n't , if you met the deadline leave it blank , only you know the answer to that . |
| 4 | He leaned closer , his smile teasing , but as their eyes met the smile faded slowly . |
| 5 | Oh , it was n't like this at all , I 'm sure , yet the shape silhouetted in the snow where the ice met the beach turned into our worst fears . |
| 6 | Similarly , in their daily practice , as in London , each SCC nominated a ‘ responsible helper ’ who first met the headteacher to discuss those juveniles who were about to leave school , and then interviewed the young people themselves and their parents . |
| 7 | The Court , together with the Emperor , had moved to Saint Cloud for the summer and it was there , at ten o'clock on the morning of 5 July , that Ollivier as head of the Ministry , together with Gramont , the Foreign Minister , met the Emperor to decide on a suitable response to Prussian provocation . |
| 8 | The study 's conviction that creating the panel met the need to dispel finally the belief that auditors were clients of the company , not he shareholders , was still not shared by the finance officers . |
| 9 | Whilst accepting that ‘ inclination ’ was absent I could not agree that blacks lacked the intellect to do well at school and my work was , in a way , intended to lay bare as false such assumptions . |
| 10 | The Brothers demonstrated power axes as well as heavier weapons which the neophytes as yet lacked the physique to wield unaided unless those weapons were equipped with suspensors . |
| 11 | The divisional controllers also lacked the independence conferred by ministerial appointment on Area Board chairmen , and were more constrained when they were called regularly to London head office conferences . |
| 12 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 13 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 14 | He was the author of some works on gardening , but he lacked the experience to produce a much needed comprehensive practical guide book . |
| 15 | The decision , reached by a 7-2 majority , was seen as having wider implications , since it dismissed the case solely on the grounds that those bringing it lacked the standing to sue [ see below ] . |
| 16 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 17 | Unfortunately from his viewpoint he lacked the skill to handle the matter and the result was a catastrophic decline in his reputation . |
| 18 | It was also true that the France of de Gaulle was trying to reverse her military defeat in 1940 by winning hegemony in post-war Western Europe by political means ; and her partners in the EEC lacked the unity needed to stand up to her . |
| 19 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 20 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 21 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 22 | Garcia of Galicia lacked the ability possessed by his brothers and accordingly was the first victim of the discord among them all . |
| 23 | With our extraordinary background , Brian and I lacked the ability to cope with our contemporaries ; as English boys who had barely heard of cricket we were natural targets . |
| 24 | As dean , Smith attempted to revert to the practices and manners of Hall 's great predecessor Cyril Jackson [ q.v. ] , but he lacked the ability to manage those with whom a dean of Christ Church had to deal . |
| 25 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 26 | The tsar could be cold , however — " he trusted neither himself nor others , and therefore lacked the ability to attach anyone to himself " — and unsympathetic observers were less sure of his temperament than the indulgent Mackenzie Wallace . |
| 27 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 28 | Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service . |
| 29 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 30 | In practice , as his experience as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1929 and 1930 proved , it lacked the will to implement any radical reform . |