Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 2 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 3 | It defines material which ‘ any reasonable person ’ ( a judge , for example ) would find ‘ shocking , disgusting and revolting ’ , as Lord Denning the then Master of the Rolls defined it in 1976 . |
| 4 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 5 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 6 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 7 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 8 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 9 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 10 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 11 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 12 | The princess bought hers in 1988 before going on a visit to Australia . |
| 13 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 14 | Suddenly the suburban street outside the school was blasted by an explosion louder than anything heard there since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1944 . |
| 15 | Deaf people did not escape their share of war-time tragedy and hardship , but the war benefited them in one very important respect . |
| 16 | A speedy journey in the boats took us to one of the 365 islands in Lough Erne . |
| 17 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 18 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 19 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 20 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
| 21 | The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen . |
| 22 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 23 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 24 | The Pope declared it in 1954 . |
| 25 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 26 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 27 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 28 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 29 | Unleaded petrol did not reach our garages until 1986 , although the USA had it in 1975 and Japan from 1977 . |
| 30 | The Foulis family who originally built the castle replaced it in 1806 with the Mansion House now a part of the school buildings . |