Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [noun] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state .
2 If the hon. Gentleman will give me details of the particular case that he has mentioned , I will certainly have it examined .
3 His servants and courtiers would bring him tales of the beautiful palace and grounds above , but he refused to listen to their mad ramblings .
4 They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’
5 Suitably robed — the designer had already shown him drawings of an onion-shaped headpiece and a collar of gold — she would look more sphinx-like than most , certainly more exotic than Babs Osborne whose voice was pitched a little too high and whose features were a little too Frinton-on-Sea to suggest the perfect Cleopatra .
6 Thank you for sending me details of the forthcoming publication , ‘ How to write a will and gain probate ’ .
7 On the whole through symposia , seminars and articles in the specialised press French art critics respond with scorn to attacks of this kind , considering them expressions of a dangerous , reactionary way of thinking .
8 An infection control policy should be available to staff , emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps .
9 Unlike Persian rugs , where the name of the weaving group is an indication , if not a guarantee , of a certain quality , the " Persian " names used by Indian weavers are totally useless as pointers tot he quality of an individual item ; they refer only to the design , and must never be taken as indicating that the rug also emulates the quality and structural characteristics of the original .
10 Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative .
11 First , I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me notice of the detailed point that he wished to raise .
12 RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience .
13 Certainly such a relation of God with the world prevents us thinking of the physical universe in its entirety as God 's ‘ body ’ .
14 She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court .
15 692 , Wilfrid took refuge with Aethelred who made him bishop of the Middle Angles ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ; HE IV , 23 ) and stood by him when Wilfrid refused to submit to Aldfrith and Archbishop Beorhtwald at the council of Austerfield c .
16 It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type .
17 I am very grateful to Mr H. E. Caunt , the Public Relations Officer for the Nene Valley Railway in Cambridgeshire , who kindly sent me details of the strange happenings concerning Yarwell Tunnel .
18 But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages .
19 On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day .
20 He grew used to her absence , thought of nothing but his book , and decided to call it Principles of the Real .
21 While he was at college , he got a Saturday job with Austin Reed , the men 's outfitters , ‘ which gave me experience of a real shop-floor environment — right at the front line of customer service .
22 Some of these basic philosophies subsequently appear in certain sections of the Supplement , and I can illustrate these by showing you copies of the relevant pages .
23 DW may at its sole discretion offer you up-dates of the licensed Program .
24 His 62 wickets at 7.28 put him top of the Minor County averages .
25 Here in the west of Ireland , we call him Balor of the Heavy Blows …
26 When the Constituent Assembly elected him President of the Provisional Government , eighty per cent of the public approved ( according to an opinion poll . )
27 Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line .
28 He seemed to think it evidence of a malignant fate that he had had the misfortune to link himself to a succession of mad women .
29 But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy .
30 Rumours of a row between Graham and Merson are circulating , and that will only damage still further the Gunners ' cause after two shock defeats leaves them bottom of the new Premier League .
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