Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
2 | In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary . |
3 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
4 | Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out . |
5 | Over this he had a black mackintosh ; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers . |
6 | When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness . |
7 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
8 | For this he received a two-match ban . |
9 | In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ . |
10 | Yet in spite of this he remained a convinced Catholic , regarding Voltaire and the Encyclopédie as profoundly dangerous . |
11 | After this he ranked the great road north to Barnet , then that to Kent and those to Chelmsford and Uxbridge . |
12 | From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence . |
13 | While doing this he gave a wonderful imitation of his coal merchant and his wife . |
14 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
15 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
16 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
17 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
18 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
19 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
20 | Among East Anglian property pundits , alarm over what Mr Lamont might be planning for the region 's property market turned to relief as it became clear he had no major upsets in store . |
21 | Now it was clear he had no real need of her assistance despite his claim to the opposite . |
22 | Mr Moore had made it clear he wanted a sterner system . |
23 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
24 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
25 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
26 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
27 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
28 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
29 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
30 | In 1609 he completed an English translation of a treatise De Potestate Papae , but the Jesuit general refused to allow its publication . |