Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 2 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 3 | In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year . |
| 4 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 5 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |
| 6 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 7 | They had laid waste the entire north of the country and in 449 they arrived at the university town of Stamford . |
| 8 | The British were determined to consolidate their own control over the country and in 1919 they imposed an Anglo-Persian treaty that virtually made Iran a British protectorate . |
| 9 | At the same time that does create pressures upon the school and in particular it creates pressures upon you in terms of finding the money in order to ensure that those pupils are resourced adequately . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 11 | Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson . |
| 12 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 13 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 14 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 15 | In 1891 he began making plans for a road and in 1893 he commenced work . |
| 16 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 17 | Innocent was the first pope to try such a scheme and in 1199 he initiated an income tax on the clergy of one-fortieth of their ecclesiastical income for a year in aid of the Holy Land . |
| 18 | Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast . |
| 19 | Prior to World War One Bateman served Palace admirably while remaining an amateur and in 1913–14 he gained Amateur International honours for his country and then toured Denmark and Sweden with the England Amateur XI . |
| 20 | The Reich bought from members and supported the association to such an extent that in 1942 they celebrated their 75th anniversary with a big exhibition of German women artists ! |