Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] marked the " in BNC.

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1 Situated below a hill between the valleys of the Ribble and Eden the bore marked the determination of the LMS to refuse to be beaten by obstacles that could be over-come by sheer practical means .
2 Coinciding as it did with Alan 's trainee appointment to the firm of Lark and Clarkson , Architects , back in the city where he was born , the money marked the beginning of a new era in Alan and Carolyn 's married life .
3 When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by .
4 He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government .
5 For Walter Long proposing Law as leader , the decision marked the end of an era , the swansong of the country gentleman .
6 The celebratory boom of cannon echoing from another part of the citadel marked the end of the ceremony and the emperor descended slowly from his throne to shake hands in European fashion with the Resident Superior , and side by side they led the way into an antechamber .
7 Political analysts also agreed that the result marked the eclipse of the traditional political right and centre , which had been obliged to endorse Menem 's conservative economic policies , and marked the isolation of the Peronist left-wing and of other left-wing parties opposed to austerity measures .
8 Finally satisfied that these tableaux held no secrets , they turned round and headed back towards the gallery marked THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD .
9 In other words , these early inventions by the Chancellor marked the beginning of what is today a commonplace of English jurisprudence — the splitting of rights of ownership into legal rights ( title ) and equitable rights ( the right to enjoyment ) .
10 However , a report in the Washington Post of March 14 claimed that the move marked the start of an ambitious new phase in Syria 's longstanding campaign to take control of the PLO .
11 Below the crags a well-built tunnelmouth and a lined tunnel leading into the hill marked the site of one of the old stone-mines on Stags Fell .
12 Sir James Mellon , chairman of Scottish Homes , said the start of the development marked the beginning of a new Drumchapel with radical changes to provide quality homes for the future .
13 An increase in the traffic marked the end of a timetable period .
14 He said the launch marked the start of a Skerneside Revival project which continued the good work of Railside Revival , which cleaned up land alongside the main east coast railway line through the borough .
15 Labour MPs defied party orders to abstain , but the end of the debate marked the biggest revolt so far by Conservative MPs in the marathon saga of the Bill 's passage through the Commons .
16 By the spring of 1833 the first onrush of the epidemic had subsided and the government marked the occasion in the way thought most appropriate , as Judith Holt 's diary records :
17 The completion of the draft marked the first substantive development on the issue , under negotiation by the 39 participating countries since 1968 .
18 It could even be that one of the worn words on the aforementioned standing stone was ‘ Drustans ’ , another name for Tristan and that the stone marked the place where Mark ordered the lovers to be buried together .
19 An intermittent glow in the south-east marked the sweep of the Lizard Light while nearer to hand the harbour lights and the street lamps contributed patches of misty radiance .
20 A shard of flint on the track marked the point .
21 The girl got up and not a crease marked the skirt of her suit .
22 CHARLES 'S disappointment at the birth of a second son rather than a daughter marked the beginning of the end .
23 In the past an arrest marked the end of the police investigation .
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