Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale .
2 But when it 's dark and the moon glints on the Peter and Paul fortress , and two out of every three street lights are extinguished for economy so that the puddles and newly fallen snow are discovered only by an errant foot , then it is once again St Petersburg , and Dostoevsky is hump-backed in a slum behind Sennaya Square , and Pushkin is dying after his duel and saying ‘ Good-bye , my friends ’ to his rows of books .
3 However , its supporters were not unanimous ; a statement issued by the Belfast Young Socialists condemned the police and also accused NICRA of selling its principles by not leading the demonstration into Dungannon .
4 It is difficult to infer from this passage that Strabo trusted Timagenes about the Cells and never made use of the original text of Posidonius — who had been directly or indirectly his own teacher .
5 ‘ I had left school at 15 with no qualifications and always done dressmaking , but I never enjoyed it .
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