Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [no cls] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that point , the occupying French carted off the painting to Paris for the new Musée Centrale des Arts . |
| 2 | It would clearly take considerable mental agility to square this reading with that emphasizing the comedy of the fabliau put forward here , even in terms of the black humour of the exposure of human baseness as suggested for the French Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin . |
| 3 | Heaven forbid , but the urge to shoehorn into the calendar as much of it as possible continues unabated , leading at times to brain-numbing events such as the three-match Pakistan versus England knockabout immediately after the World Cup — which was a bit like lighting the cigar after a five-course a la carte dinner , then having the waiter arrive with a tureen of porridge . |
| 4 | The Acuerdo Patriótica ( AP — Patriotic Accord ) , an alliance of the left-wing Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria ( MIR — Movement of the Revolutionary Left , Oscar Eid Franco s. -g. ) , the right-wing Alianza Democrática Nacionalista ( ADN — Democratic Nationalist Alliance , Hugo Banzer Suárez l. ) , assumed power in August 1989 following the failure of any one candidate to win an outright majority in the presidential election on May 7 , 1989 [ see pp. 36652 ; 36845 ] . |
| 5 | I mean , Mark 's got some great stuff of the sixties er er er , ex , ex movies of the so er trailers of ex movies , you know |
| 6 | Holders of £500 to £1,000 worth formed 31.4 per cent of the East India stock hold-ers , 22.9 per cent of the Bank 's , 18 per cent of the South Sea Company 's and 19 per cent of the 4 per cent 's . |
| 7 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 8 | This study of the Muses in the widest sense was reflected in the work of such balletmasters as Beaujoyeulx , producer of the first ballet de cour and later by Beauchamps , dancing master to Louis XIV . |
| 9 | Luis Carlos Croissier Batista , who had been Industry and Energy Minister in 1986-1988 , became head of the new Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores , the national stock market commission regulating the new stock markets . |
| 10 | They have become part of the spacious ports de bras used during the dance . |
| 11 | Another veteran communist politician , Santiago Carrillo , secretary-general of the PCE from 1960 to 1982 , effectively retired when on Feb. 15 , 1991 , he signed an agreement providing for the integration into the PSOE of the small Partido de los Trabajadores de España ( Spanish Workers ' Party — PTE ) , which he had formed after his expulsion from the PCE leadership in 1985 [ see pp. 34183-84 ; 35527 ] . |
| 12 | In essence , this book is a detailed , synthetic study of the fourteenth-century Sala dei Nove in Siena , the fifteenth-century Camera Picta in Mantua and the mid sixteenth-century Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence . |
| 13 | In a new study on the future of trade unions , P. F. Beaumont examines a number of structural forces , all of which are working against a re-establishment of the growing status quo ante ( see The Decline of Trade Union Organisations , Croom Helm , Beckenham , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | So that the incremental , only the incremental erm in respect of the incremental er er er percentage . |
| 15 | Nor should anything especially sinister be read into reports that the money to pay for little Sachin has been provided by commercial concerns not averse to a little of the old quid pro quo . |
| 16 | If this is danced to 6/8 it leads to the very swift footwork needed fur Massine 's tarantella and Ashton 's version of the Italian pas de deux in Swan Lake , a miracle of timing and quick changes of éauiement . |
| 17 | ‘ Vesta ’ was his contribution to The Triumphes of Oriana ( London , 1601 ) , a collection of madrigals by twenty-four composers compiled by Morley in emulation of the Italian Trionfo di Dori ( Venice , 1592 ) to which Giovanni Gabrieli , Vecchi , Marenzio , de Monte , Croce , Striggio , Felice Anerio , Gastoldi , Palestrina , and others had contributed . |
| 18 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 19 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 20 | Business had never been better and was growing strongly , with the prospect of a six per cent per annum growth rate . |
| 21 | On both issues she acknowledged the importance of the ‘ women 's movement ’ in promoting reform , ‘ the ever increasing activity in all agencies for the elevation of women … above all that new sense of a common esprit de corps … which is now beginning to bind all our efforts together . ’ |
| 22 | Erm the world is indeed inter-related erm we are talking in strategic terms of a multilateral er er erm system just as we , as , when we come to the later lectures we will see , as is the case with economic relations . |
| 23 | Whether because of Portuguese blood , or because of Portuguese influence , every visitor is aware of a Mediterranean douceur de vie — a quality apparent in Goans ' three-hour siestas , and in their exceptional courtesy and serenity . |
| 24 | A whole list of factors contributed to Berlin 's statist character : the relatively weakly developed guild system and mediaeval urban structures more generally ; the relative insubstantiality of a Prussian noblesse de robe ; the relatively powerless position of the mercantile bourgeoisie under absolutism . |
| 25 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 26 | Then there are items in private collections that Campion has discovered , such as a 1952 Lied von der Erde with Richard Lewis , conducted by Barbirolli , that would be fascinating to hear . |
| 27 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 28 | Instead , to their own imagined advantage , they fell in with the renewed Drang nach Osten . |
| 29 | The G minor symphony marks Mozart 's first use of this key ( then closely associated with the fashionable Sturm und Drang — Storm and Stress — style ) . |
| 30 | He had spent fourteen years with the French Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre Espionage before becoming one of Philpott 's first field operatives when UNACO was founded in I980 . |