Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 2 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 3 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 4 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister opened the debate , he made it clear that he had sensed right the mood of the House and of the British people . |
| 6 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 7 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 8 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 9 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 10 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 11 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 12 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 13 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 14 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 15 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 16 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 17 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 18 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 19 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 20 | They have therefore gathered together an impressive group of sixteen experts and devised cast-iron vetting rules . |
| 21 | At this point , the chairman of the governors suggests that the job should be redefined so the post is offered to Valerie Way and was recorded in the sub-committee 's minutes in the following terms : |
| 22 | His measures had welded together an invincible voter coalition . |
| 23 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 24 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 25 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 26 | Thus far , Kirov had received only a vague brief about his current project . |
| 27 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 28 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 29 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 30 | The defendant can already count himself lucky to have received only a two-year sentence , having regard to the amount involved and to the position of trust which he held . |