Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dresser/Harris/Kirk/Saunt took 10th place as the Germans achieved a final win . |
| 2 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 3 | The discovery in 1958 that sodium uptake and glucose uptake are coupled at the luminal surface of the intestine marked a turning point in the oral administration of electrolyte solutions . |
| 4 | While Ramsey was a canon the chapter appointed a new vicar ; and while Ramsey 's predecessor was bishop , a minority of the parishioners started to protest against the vicar 's innovations and were in a strong position because the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so . |
| 5 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 6 | Robin Hood Quarry No 3 has seen Upping the Ante given a direct finish , traversing left at the second pair of pegs , and given the grade E5 6b b by Ian Parsons and Jim Ballard . |
| 7 | Why is the card called a Grizzled Skipper ? |
| 8 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 9 | The Countess cast a scathing eye at the dancers who were beginning yet another waltz , then looked back to the Duke . |
| 10 | On the currency front , the pound enjoyed a strong flourish , gaining 1.4 cents against the dollar to 1 dollar point 9195 and pushing .87 of a pfennigs firmer to 2 deutschmarks point 9704 . |
| 11 | From August 1937 the Club operated a price-reduction agreement with Lawrence and Wishart , who had a virtual monopoly of Marxist-Leninist publications and of works by the leading members of the British Communist Party . |
| 12 | Following a preliminary examination of these new inward investors by means of a postal questionnaire survey , the authors selected a matched sample ( controlling for employment size , sector and production process ) of old and new manufacturing firms . |
| 13 | For if not , how otherwise had the Ark avoided a precipitous descent as the waters had retreated ? |
| 14 | The pier and the hydro and the telephone made a big difference to it . |
| 15 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 16 | The work of the Council achieved a significant increase in media coverage from the press , radio and television at both national and local levels . |
| 17 | One of the requirements of that particular council guides to the Chief Officers was that , they should bring before the councils a statement that Treasury Management policy and arrangements and that , in fact , was done in the autumn of ninety-two , and the council adopted a particular statement which reflected its circumstances at the time , erm , and the then policy . |
| 18 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 19 | Had the law furnished a sufficient equivalent ? he asked . |
| 20 | At last I had a serious discussion with Benjamin in our great oak-panelled hall , the walls above the panelling painted a light green and decorated with cunningly devised shields bearing the arms of Wolsey , Daunbey and , finally , Shallot . |
| 21 | The act cast a sharp sidelight of acute intelligence upon Orrie 's remark about passing the time . |
| 22 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 23 | Deputies to the session elected a 14-person presidium , including Col. Viktor Alksnis , Gen. Albert Makashov and historian Roy Medvedev , and led by Sazhi Umalatova , who at the December 1990 Congress had called for a vote of no confidence in Gorbachev [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 24 | For instance , the monastic school was still in existence , with quite a large body of masters and children in the choir.6 Also , the members of the community preserved a considerable sense of grandeur , however misplaced , and an implacable devotion to their local saints . |
| 25 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 26 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 27 | The rain cast a decided dampener on their spirits and , as it became heavier , Geoffrey was moved to make a mild complaint . |
| 28 | It is one in which the group achieved a major breakthrough only last year . |
| 29 | They had , according to Dee Brown , a ‘ drab uniformity ’ , with the station painted a sombre colour , a water tank , a grain elevator , and a bleak main street . |
| 30 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |