Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) .
2 Three hundred and twenty-five works of art reported missing from Paris 's Musée Jacquemart-André in an inventory published in April 1991 by the Cour des Comptes the lofty body responsible for controlling public finance have not only been found , but never left the museum according to a second survey carried out by order of a Paris court .
3 Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens .
4 in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years .
5 ( b ) List 5 important items of information which should appear in a letter of application written by a person applying for a first job .
6 At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes .
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