Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Orient redisplayed in a great , gilded gallery |
| 2 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 3 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 4 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
| 5 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 6 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 7 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 8 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 9 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 10 | The MCC voted by a large majority to retain termly modules for reasons including greater flexibility in module size and length and more frequent feedback to students on their progress . |
| 11 | On 29 April the PKI emerged as an open party . |
| 12 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 13 | George Duddy of the UUP ran in the Rural ward and his place in Waterside has been taken by party leader John Adams . |
| 14 | You could almost hear them scuttling for cover in the comfortable lobby of a Hornchurch hotel , as the Hilton resounded with a familiar sound . |
| 15 | From the airport the Sadats and the Pahlavis drove to the Oberoi Hotel , which is secluded in a man-made island in the Nile . |
| 16 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 17 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 18 | When Israel decided to expel Shak'a in 1979 , the PLO cautioned against a mass resignation of mayors proposed by the NGC . |
| 19 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
| 20 | The Volvo hissed along the dark road ; a couple of cars went past , holes of white light in the night , scattering spray which the water jets and wipers of the Volvo swept away again . |
| 21 | On Jan. 17 , 1991 , the Nationalrat approved by a large majority legal changes to allow allied planes to overfly Austrian territory , even in case of war , if they were fulfilling UN Security Council resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter ( as was the case in the Gulf ) . |
| 22 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
| 23 | The PPD merged with the small Party for New Democratic Alliance in April , and became the New Democratic Party [ see p. 38147 ] . |
| 24 | Along with the hundred-headed DRAGON Ladon , the Hesperides lived in a beautiful orchard , referred to by Robed Greene in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay ( 1598 ) : |
| 25 | At least that was the diagnosis that the MO gave in the listless heat of the monsoon . |
| 26 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 27 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 28 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 29 | On the other hand , economic interdependence was great — the Ukraine depended upon the Russian market , and Russia depended upon Ukrainian raw materials ( especially grain , but also coal and iron ) and manufactured goods . |
| 30 | On arrival I found a young man from the GLC equipped with a magic lantern , slides , wall plans and all other relevant data . |