Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel 's principal foreign-policy objective now became to break the walls of its political isolation in the region.Its first success was full diplomatic recognition ny Turkey in 1949 ; the second was de facto recognition from Iran in 1950 . |
| 2 | More than 150 million Americans tuned in to watch the episode in the States last month making Cheers — which earned £200 million in worldwide sales — the most-watched TV show in history . |
| 3 | More than 150 million Americans tuned in to watch the episode in the States last month making Cheers — which earned £200 million in worldwide sales — the most-watched TV show in history . |
| 4 | Jaq knew that she was an initiate of the Callidus Shrine of the Assassins — speciality : cunning — and the experiment in the Callidus medical laboratory perhaps marked a perilous , agonizing zenith of dissimulation . |
| 5 | The study focused in three central issues : what is known about the introduction of competition into the provision of goods previously supplied publicly ; whether competition improves efficiency — and the relative contributions of competition and ownership ; and the scope for extending competition tendering in the UK public sector . |
| 6 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 7 | Net earnings per share fell 68% to $0.66 in the year.OIS Optical Imaging Systems Inc has reported first quarter net losses of $907,294 down from losses of $1.8m last time , on turnover up 79.3% to $1.8m . |
| 8 | Net per share rose 12.5% to $0.27 in the quarter , stood at $0.66 in the year.The Israeli company reports figures in US dollars . |
| 9 | SCO and Pegasus are hoping to take advantage of an increased demand for computer-based accounting solutions expected when new accountancy regulations come into force in the UK next year , which will make it very difficult , the two claim , for companies to perform accounting tasks , like payroll , without a computer . |
| 10 | Spain 's biggest trial of ecological crimes has begun with 34 rice farmers , pesticide salesmen and government officials accused of poisoning more than 20,000 birds with banned pesticides in the Donana national park in 1986 . |
| 11 | Keep your investment in a quality regional brewer . |
| 12 | In his previous period in office Kang had initiated a joint venture law which had attempted to encourage Western investment in the North Korean economy . |
| 13 | Often , too , we used to go on the ARP bus , a sort of fishing club for fire fighters in the Heeley Green area of Sheffield , run by local cutler George Sadler . |
| 14 | A survey of the operation of delivering books , and some other materials , from the Library 's bookstacks to readers in the George IV Bridge Building and in the Scottish Science Library was undertaken in February and March 1992 . |
| 15 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 16 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 17 | It was clear that UUUC were going to do well but many people including perhaps some UUUC candidates themselves were surprised at the extent of their success , The relative absence of " Centre " candidates in the Westminster X-vote election of October 1974 was marked and this alone and understandably made realists doubt the validity of the figures as a guide to a single transferable vote election six months later . |
| 18 | From no specific mention in the échelle this growth acquired premier cru status in 1985 . |
| 19 | Official figures suggest that ACET provided care at home for up to one in four of all those who died of AIDS in the UK last year . |
| 20 | Typically , each spring , the planktonic plants and animals in the surface photic zone do very well , feeding on nutrients at the surface . |
| 21 | Answers : I. swear 2. sink 3. drink 4. dull 5. pretty 6. quiet 7. hunter 8. a flash ( or lightning ) 9. a bug in a rug 10. sin 11. saucer 12. whistle 13. brush 14. spit 15. bright 16. gone tomorrow 17. charity 18. blue 19. the seven dwarfs 20. and the world … you … and you weep … 21. … shepherd 's warning . |
| 22 | Uncertainty over Mr Mulroney 's future has existed since the defeat in a referendum last October of his government 's proposals for constitutional reform aimed at solving the separatist dispute in French-speaking Quebec . |
| 23 | Parliamentary opposition groups were also active in the anti-government protests , but their focus was on political regrouping following their defeat in the May 1990 elections , parliamentary opposition to government policies and political manoeuvring in response to NSF proposals to involve them in a government coalition . |
| 24 | To decide on matters of compensation or the return of property , the decrees ( i ) established a Property Ombudsman 's office within and subordinate to the office of the Attorney General ; ( ii ) re-established a three-member National Review Commission under the Property Ombudsman 's office ; and ( iii ) expanded the duties of the Office of Territorial Reorganization ( OOT ) to review assignments of state property to Sandinista officials between the Sandinista defeat in the February 1990 elections and Chamorro 's inauguration in April . |
| 25 | Source F " This defeat in the October 1931 election is still very much a part of the mythology of the Labour movement . |
| 26 | I do not understand why — because of her little temperaments in the theatre this morning — we are having all this talk of lawsuits and resignations . |
| 27 | Luca Cumani appears to have found the ideal opening for Tej Singh in the Smeeth Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Folkestone . |
| 28 | They plunged to new depths at fellow strugglers Hull City , conceding four goals in a nightmare second half after leading 2–1 at the interval . |
| 29 | Two of the players , Robertas Fidrikas and Asminas Narberkovas , scored the goals in a shock 2–2 draw against Northern Ireland in Belfast in April last year . |
| 30 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |