Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In St Erconwald 's church , Athelstan had just finished the Mass for the dead and was now blessing the corpse of Tosspot , an old drunkard who 'd lived in the cellars of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 2 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 3 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 4 | On his election as President in May 1984 [ see pp. 33204-05 ] , his government relied on the support of the military and was heavily dependent on the USA for military and economic aid . |
| 5 | Even in the dreary beginnings of a rainy dawn the newly sprouting vines dotted the hillside with a green that was almost luminous , but the olive trees were the same ghostly grey as the fog . |
| 6 | ‘ The guy was a bit of a throwback from the '60s and was more interested in teaching me Wishbone Ash tunes , ’ Friedman recalls , ‘ which was not exactly my thing . ’ |
| 7 | The ‘ Dutch Cap ’ was not introduced by the German physician Mensinga until the 1880s and was only ever used by a minority of women , despite its promotion by clinics . |
| 8 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 9 | The original north transept of Pershore Abbey collapsed in the 1680s and was never rebuilt . |
| 10 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 11 | The collection owes its origin to a major bequest of drawings and sculptures by the neo-classical artist John Flaxman in the 1840s and was further enriched by a bequest of German graphic works by George Grote in 1872 . |
| 12 | Years ago when you wanted to get to the heath from a stable that was maybe , the Cambridge side of Newmarket |
| 13 | I decided on the latter and was again pleased when I managed to haul myself to safety at the top of the boulder . |
| 14 | The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift . |