Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 2 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 3 | The tent had a damp patch where it sagged between the poles |
| 4 | Although some well publicized scandals had begun to undermine the respect which the police still generally enjoyed , the majority recommended no fundamental change , contenting themselves with drawing attention to : |
| 5 | The majority approved the orthodox offer/counter offer acceptance analysis . |
| 6 | The majority supported the basic idea of the OFR : that company directors should provide with the reports and accounts a commentary on the operating results , a review of financial needs and resources and a commentary on shareholders ' return and value . |
| 7 | There is no hint of this in the Crowland chronicle , but it would correspond with Mancini 's picture of a minority on the council wanting a protector , while the majority backed an immediate coronation and conciliar authority . |
| 8 | There is no hint of this in the Crowland chronicle , but it would correspond with Mancini 's picture of a minority on the council wanting a protector , while the majority backed an immediate coronation and conciliar authority . |
| 9 | Council officers say the vandalism meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 10 | The GCP formed an electoral pact with the other opposition groups , among which the Northern People 's party ( NPP ) was the most formidable . |
| 11 | Also on Nov. 27 the FRUD declared a seven-day ceasefire as a sign of good faith . |
| 12 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 13 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 14 | The Eastons restored the ornamental paintwork , most of it imitation brickwork painted over the actual brick , and in the case of the wall paintings , have reinstated the full scheme . |
| 15 | A Coal Advisory Service expert examined Mr McCoubrey 's gravity feed boiler and discovered there was almost a complete blockage at the T-box where the boiler joined the vertical chimney . |
| 16 | Within this context the acts represented a high point of sanitary interventionism . |
| 17 | The Acts introduced a whole code of procedure , the Rules of the Supreme Court , which in various ways assimilated the Common Law and the Equity procedure , taking the good points of both . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the apparent acceptance of prostitution in the Acts evoked a strong response from feminists , led by Josephine Butler , and from social moralists , which was directed particularly against the state regulation of vice . |
| 19 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 20 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 21 | Of these 57 authorities , 32 had been Partnership or Programme councils , and the remainder had a lower status either as Other Designated Districts or benefited from the traditional Urban Programme from which very many councils had gained some , often limited resources . |
| 22 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 23 | The reduction followed an earlier relaxation of tight monetary policy on Jan. 23 , and was denounced by the opposition as " blatantly political " . |
| 24 | After the greyness and isolation of winter , the crowds seemed a mad profusion of seething colour , all the time moving , all the time talking . |
| 25 | It was some time after the crowds stormed the Presidential Palace compound in northern Bucharest in the late morning of 22 December 1989 that they found a confused old lady in a bungalow in the grounds . |
| 26 | At the time , the appointment of a practising artist rather than an academic to the Tretyakov evoked a great deal of criticism . |
| 27 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 28 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't rate the weedy one with the glasses , ’ said Cawthorne , ‘ but the one with the beard looked a hard case . ’ |
| 30 | In 1355 Edward III appointed the Black Prince his Lieutenant in Aquitaine , and the prince took a small force there in the autumn of that year . |