Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Halfway through the rehearsals Arthur started to feel anxious , and after nights of floundering he concluded that he should stop trying to put aside what he knew from music hall .
2 The Van Necks had developed valuable trading and political connections in France , particularly with the Parisian Protestant firm of Thellusson , Necker & Co. , who were able to get them important wheat-buying commissions from the French government .
3 Thus , in the first scenes of the play Anderson tends to favour positive politeness strategies ( complimenting the addressee 's positive face ) and among these , Leech 's approbation maxim is prominent : in both scenes one and two he praises the universities to which McKendrick and Chetwyn belong , and thus , by association , the academics themselves .
4 And everyone froze at the Las Vegas meeting to view triumphant Nina 's outfit .
5 After the break Walden began to win more ball , which they ran with great vigour , and were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions .
6 After the restart North started to play better rugby gaining more possession and putting Malone under pressure for the first fifteen minutes .
7 By the mid-1960s Truman 's had 1,300 pubs , concentrated mainly in the South-East .
8 The ruins of the Knossos Labyrinth have yielded some stone friezes carved with rosettes , spirals and half-rosettes carved in relief , but these seem to have been exceptional .
9 Whatever the metaphor Marcus had changed all that .
10 But the picture was further complicated in 1983 when the Worcester DHA proposed to close another psychiatric hospital , with a similarly small and diminishing resident population , St Wulstan 's , for which it had assumed responsibility .
11 Continuing weak enforcement , however , meant that the South Korea continued to have some of the lowest real property taxes in the world .
12 More testimony was given by Sergeant Harris as to the clothing Drew had worn that day .
13 ‘ Over the years ICI has made significant reductions in its mercury emissions , ’ explained Phil Edwards .
14 Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard .
15 Over the years Artcare have introduced many improvements .
16 The Edo Bakufu had dominated political decision-making for 250 years .
17 At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden .
18 Since the war Orkney 's changed terrible .
19 Before the war Burma had produced seven million tons of rice a year , about half of which was exported .
20 The constitution of the United Kingdom seeks to accommodate these various forces in a variety of ways .
21 The United Kingdom had implemented 111 of the 137 measures required — 81 per cent .
22 Local councils in the United Kingdom had lost some £80,000,000 as a result of the BCCI closure .
23 So far , both the United States and the United Kingdom have rejected all of these good faith efforts by Libya to resolve this dispute in a peaceful manner .
24 Nevertheless , fewer than half the health districts in the United Kingdom have established cardiac rehabilitation programmes .
25 I 'd now like you to hear directly from a young person for whom access to one of our projects in the United Kingdom has made major changes in her life .
26 Since yesterday 's decisions are clearly further progress towards European union , can the Prime Minister say whether the United Kingdom has moved any closer to the acceptance of a single European currency ?
27 The United Kingdom has developed domestic legislation and regularly consults the fishing industry safety group about possible improvements .
28 We are now trying to get agreement with the International Maritime Organisation to phase in the recommendations much more quickly , and the United Kingdom has led those calls .
29 Despite the fact that Titmuss ( 1958 ) was one of the first commentators to appreciate the significance of tax expenditure , the United Kingdom has done little to tackle the problem .
30 He could remind them that since 1981 , the volume of manufactured exports from the United Kingdom has outstripped that of France , Germany , Japan and the United States of America .
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