Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 18 months Brighton Poets have invigorated the poetry scene by bringing well known guests to read with locally-based poets . |
| 2 | I am interested to note that they have not unscrewed the fingerplates from his doors . |
| 3 | Of one such ship her rivals would say , as she drew ahead , ‘ They 've unscrewed the beams and we sha n't see her again today . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 've unscrewed the casters , ’ said Jack , ‘ the feet do n't come off , they 're fixed ! ’ |
| 5 | LIKE Shakespearean scholars after a spell at Harvard Business School , the managers of the world 's best-known branded products have long pondered the question : what 's in a name ? |
| 6 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 7 | Having pondered the operating characteristics of the circuit , the next criterion in our list relates to the space available in the housing used to accommodate the finished board . |
| 8 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 9 | And if Davie 's principles make him what some might call ‘ elitist ’ or ‘ undemocratic ’ , as in his stinging verdicts on ‘ catchpenny enterprises … like the Arvon Poetry Competitions ’ , it is not without his having pondered the arguments about the place and function of elites and of high art in a democratic nation far more deeply than the bulk of his fellow countrymen . |
| 10 | He had pondered the drawing , its cold angry gaze , the intricacy of the creature 's skeletal limbs . |
| 11 | A bridal cap of gold would be placed on her head , its intricately woven strands of gold dripping down her back as though the weaver had spilled the threads of his loom . |
| 12 | 3.4 HAS NOZICK REFUTED THE SCEPTIC ? |
| 13 | Royal Mail chiefs have refuted the claims and say that , in fact , the quality of service is increasing . |
| 14 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 15 | Once Gosport and the Portsea Lines had fallen the Portsmouth dockyard would become unusable , and — reversing the usual proposed sequence — the invaders would then capture the Isle of Wight . |
| 16 | In winter when all the leaves had fallen the forest became rough and creviced like the trunk of a tree . |
| 17 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 18 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 19 | Second , the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment . |
| 20 | ‘ I might as well have lobotomised the patients . |
| 21 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 22 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 23 | Hoomey had not foreseen the consequences of the new decision . |
| 24 | We have just occupied Vienna ; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago . |
| 25 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 26 | Negotiations on free trade were also initiated with Yugoslavia , even though the 1983 EFTA-Yugoslavia joint declaration had not specifically foreseen the possibility of a free trade area . |
| 27 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
| 28 | And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour . |
| 29 | In his Memoirs he claims feebly he had foreseen the dangers , but believed that with the limited forces available an attack on the Left Bank would have been stopped by the ‘ well-constructed ’ enemy position . |
| 30 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |