Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | People who knocked about the revolutionary left at the time still remember Big Flame fondly as a fundamentally nice organization . |
| 3 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 4 | Previously , however , the worst effects were largely avoided by a combination of the expertise of the cartographer , who knew about the inherent generalization implicit in analogue maps , while the difficulty of manipulating maps by manual means precluded most forms of analysis likely to be sensitive to the effects of error . |
| 5 | Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament . |
| 6 | The gallery 's name ( ‘ yellow music ’ ) goes back to Wassily Kandinsky who wrote about the aggressive force of the ‘ sound ’ of the colour yellow which ‘ unsettles , and stings ’ . |