Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 2 | The use of airpower by both belligerents , in addition to supporting their ground forces , was largely designed , first , to damage the enemy 's morale and , second , in retaliation for acts perpetrated by the other side . |
| 3 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 4 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 5 | Generations of artists travelled about the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 7 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 8 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 9 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 10 | In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics . |
| 11 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that the value of exports grew by a mere 3% in 1990 . |
| 13 | All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals . |
| 14 | Murchison acted upon the recommendation quickly and the resulting influx of recruits led to a radical change in the organisation of the Survey in Scotland . |
| 15 | Other forms of words instilled into the young are also present . |
| 16 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |
| 17 | Data from the Cordillera Real and El Oro studies combined with field checks elsewhere indicate that a complex collage of terranes accreted during the Mesozoic , and the new maps use this collage as a tectonic framework . |
| 18 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 19 | Inhibition of responses mediated via the sympathetic nervous system could also explain the absence of receptive relaxation of rectal tone during ramp distension of the rectum producing a linear pressure volume relationship . |
| 20 | During the pre-dawn beach landing — seen by millions on prime-time TV — one bunch of marines crashed into a waiting press team . |
| 21 | A tangle of wires lay on a nearby seat and I noticed some of the studio equipment in a small alcove in one corner . |
| 22 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 23 | The main focus of attention for travellers who do find their way into this concealed paradise is the quaint huddle of buildings ranged along the cobbled streets of Dent Town , a Mecca in miniature to which all steps and wheels lead . |
| 24 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 25 | A similar number of both kinds of assaults appeared in the national newspapers . |
| 26 | According to these results the overwhelming majority of seats went to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) , whose officials vehemently denied opposition charges of election fraud , claiming that their " crushing success " was due to " good organization and hard work " . |
| 27 | In a result reflecting both the republic 's ethnic diversity and a resounding rejection of the ruling Bosnia-Hercegovina League of Communists , the vast majority of seats went to the three main nationalist parties separately appealing to the Moslem , Serb and Croat populations . |
| 28 | The glut of tries came to an abrupt halt when the party flew in to Sydney for the New South Wales game . |
| 29 | Geometric arrays of holes appeared in the mid-nineteenth century — probably in parallel with the Victorian enthusiasm for patterned ‘ polychromatic ’ brickwork — and seem to be the most widespread type . |
| 30 | High above a trio of hawks faltered on the rising air and the only sound was the scraping of insects . |