Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if you put it that way … ’ the porter said with a nervous chuckle . |
| 2 | The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination . |
| 3 | Of the 40 members , nine were chiefs ; the remainder belonged to the old intelligentsia . |
| 4 | The remainder went to the Georgian Popular Front , other party blocs , and independents . |
| 5 | The remainder went to the Socialist Party ( four seats ) , the Party of Yugoslavs ( one ) and independents ( three ) ; one seat remained vacant . |
| 6 | Most of the reduction came from the limited move away from the smaller sets towards the more advanced 60MW and 100MW designs which was possible within the conservative framework . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 8 | The Prince galloped past the deserted Gemioncourt farm , through a bivouacked Dutch brigade , and did not rein in till he had passed the forward Dutch picquets and could see clear down the paved highway into the village of Frasnes . |
| 9 | The Prince cantered towards the Dutch-Belgian battalions on the right-hand side of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ I shall be with His Grace anon , ’ the prince replied on a small note of displeasure , before again turning to Joan . |
| 11 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 12 | By 1941 Spitfires arrived at Benson and the base became to the top secret photo reconnaissance unit . |
| 13 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 14 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 15 | In Franklin 's draft , she had deduced that the phosphate groups of the backbone lay on the outside , and the bases on the inside , of the double helix ; and her notebooks show that she had already formed the notion of base interchangeability . |
| 16 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 17 | The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year . |
| 18 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 19 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 20 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 21 | The punishment for grave crimes should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by the great majority of citizens for them . |
| 22 | The Orient redisplayed in a great , gilded gallery |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the event , the award went to the veteran midday cowboy John Wayne for his performance in True Grit and/or for never having won an Oscar before . |
| 25 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 26 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 27 | The creditor appealed to the High Court of Australia . |
| 28 | Tabitha watched in diminishing triumph and mounting dismay as the Perk fell through the smoky air and struck one of the huge statues directly on the head . |
| 29 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 30 | ‘ The blow fell with the merciless swiftness of all misfortune ’ it was someone else 's line , a client 's presumably . |