Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority approved the orthodox offer/counter offer acceptance analysis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Council officers say the vandalism meant the present exhibition Funny Energy had to be open for restricted hours only . |
| 4 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 5 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Taking a closer look , the prince found the virgin praying while the hare hid under her garment . |
| 13 | The CO took the next trip , to Nordhausen on April 4 , but on this occasion carried an eighth crew member who acted as a second pilot . |
| 14 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
| 15 | The cornices , which surrounded the walls of the sanctuary , were of the same costly material : and a broad belt or frieze of gold let into the stone-work encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice . |
| 16 | The coverage angered the royal entourage on what was supposed to be a high-profile visit to a close trading partner , and a country where British servicemen died in the fight against Communism in the early 1950s . |
| 17 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 18 | The solicitors informed the local authority that they would be applying for an order for costs against the authority . |
| 19 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 20 | The retailer opened the opaque bottle and poured some of its contents into a glass . |
| 21 | Six healthy female subjects were fasted overnight , and on the morning of the trial ingested the radiolabelled test meal . |
| 22 | The crackle of the flames woke the old man , and he tried to open his door . |
| 23 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 24 | Perry 's foray to the Orient marked the true beginning of America 's global role ; it marked the emergence on the world stage of Japan , after two centuries of a xenophobia that almost bordered on paranoia ; and it allowed the creation — nervous at first , but gradually becoming more and more pronounced — of a trans-Pacific axis between , put at its most basic , California and Honshu — an axis around which the fortunes of today 's Ocean , and much of today 's world , revolves . |
| 25 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 26 | The board condemned the Iraqi government for its alleged mistreatment of the Shia religious leader in Najaf , Grand Ayatollah Abou Qassim al-Khoei , and concluded that Iran fully supported " the uprising of the Iraqi Moslem nation " . |
| 27 | In 1973 , the board used the public outcry over leaked reports of proposed cuts in the network ‘ to press for a higher level of investment , which they now thought they had a chance of being granted ’ ( Pryke and Dodgson 1975 : 23 ) . |
| 28 | The RAF had the unenviable task of bombing the Nazi munition factories , knowing that they were manned by forced labour from conquered European countries . |
| 29 | On Oct. 7 the JNA bombed the presidential palace in the Croatian capital , Zagreb . |
| 30 | The discussions encompassed the minimum programme for such a peacetime coalition . |