Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 2 | Both are built in Japan , though the Lynx was designed in California by Epyx , a software house which ran out of development funds and sold the product to Atari . |
| 3 | But the main aim of our visit to the Gower was to walk from Port Eynon to Rhosili , where , we were assured , the best of the scenery was yet to come . |
| 4 | Innocent 's building at the Vatican was fortified with towers and an encircling wall and was meant for longer residence . |
| 5 | After a lengthy , but apparently fruitless , search for an owner , the Connie was auctioned in November 1972 and towed to its current position in the following January . |
| 6 | The Bloc was founded by Lucien Bouchard , the former Environment Minister who resigned from the federal government in May 1990 [ see p. 37519 ] , who was joined by six other defectors from the PCP and the Liberals . |
| 7 | In 1984 the IBF was formed by people dissatisfied with the Mexican-led WBC and Panamanian-led WBA . |
| 8 | The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations , and eventually reached the ship-breaker 's yard in Rosyth in 1983 . |
| 9 | The SCDM was led by Jan Klepac , deputy chair of the Slovak National Council , and Viliam Oberhauser . |
| 10 | In 1938 the KPP was accused of factionalism , intellectualism and misguided patriotism . |
| 11 | The Renault was surrounded by guns , some of them automatic weapons . |
| 12 | The accession of the European Communities ( EC ) to the FAO was approved on Nov. 26 . |
| 13 | The LDP was returned to power at the general election of Feb. 18 , 1990 [ see pp. 37237-38 ] . |
| 14 | The Chapel of St John the Baptist ( 14 ) or Chapel of the Arnošts was founded by Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice . |
| 15 | The initiative which led to the formation of the UDC was taken by Charles Trevelyan on August 5th , the day after he resigned from a junior ministerial post at the Board of Education . |
| 16 | The Second Line maintenance of 192 Washingtons , which included Major and Minor Servicings , was carried out by Marham ASF but when the Washington was withdrawn from Bomber Command service , this responsibility was transferred to Watton . |
| 17 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 18 | The Feldwebel was choking with laughter . |
| 19 | The Everglades was carved into sections by an intricate network of canals and levees — 1,400 miles in all . |
| 20 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 21 | Following a discreet initiative by the Rev. Frank Chikane , general secretary of the South African Council of Churches , the ANC was reported on May 11 to have agreed to extend its May 9 ultimatum by a week , apparently to allow the government more time to persuade the Inkatha leader , Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi , to disarm his followers . |
| 22 | The ANC was reported on April 13 to be forming self-defence units in the townships . |
| 23 | Throughout his period of office the COS was represented in government enquiries into social problems and pressed their principles upon government , often to the exclusion of others . |
| 24 | The majority feeling in the CDP was moving towards support for development within the CNAA . |
| 25 | In 1980 the CDP was talking of CNAA ‘ dogmatism ’ , and in suggesting the establishment of a liaison body with the CNAA it looked for the establishment of a ‘ special relationship ’ . |
| 26 | In 1987–8 the CDU was rocked by scandal when Uwe Barschel , the Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein , used illegal means to help his re-election . |
| 27 | In Hesse in January 1991 the CDU-FDP coalition was replaced by an SPD-Green coalition [ see pp. 37966 ; 38156 ] ; in the Rhineland-Palatinate in April the CDU was excluded from government and an SPD-FDP coalition was formed [ see pp. 38155-56 ; 38199 ] , and in Hamburg in June the SPD obtained an absolute majority of city-council seats [ see p. 38297 ] . |
| 28 | Since then , however , a whole range of staff from administrative and clerical , to senior managers , anciliaries and technicians have won pay rises above , and sometimes well above , the 5 per cent the NHS was given for inflation . |
| 29 | In fact , it was written , by myself , in 1975 when the NHS was torn with strife as Mrs Barbara Castle , Labour 's Social Services Secretary , determined to get rid of private ‘ pay beds ’ from the NHS . |
| 30 | A CANDLELIT vigil demanding more funding for the NHS was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital last night . |