Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 2 | Next to the shop in Culver Street were six Church almshouses which had been rebuilt in the eighteen-forties to replace the original dwellings . |
| 3 | It was then that the ME-10 left the other unit standing . |
| 4 | The eight included the former governor of Shaba province , Koyagialo Ngbase te Geremgbo , who was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude . |
| 5 | In areas which appear to show the greatest change the probable effect of the fall of Magnentius has been recognized by Professor Keith Branigan , who has drawn attention to the evidence from Boxmoor , Latimer and possibly Welwyn , High Wycombe and Harpsden . |
| 6 | Before the NHS was established , critics had noted that the ‘ inverse care law ’ seemed to apply : those regions in which the need for health care was the greatest had the fewest resources . |
| 7 | The stent covered the entire stricture in each case and , as only the distal intrapancreatic portion of the CBD was stented with this unremovable material , it should not interfere with a possible future hepaticojejunostomy or choledocoduodenostomy . |
| 8 | England in the 1640s saw the Copernican texts of Galileo , Kepler , and the Dutch astronomer Philip van Lansbergen ( 1561–1632 ) read with increasing approval . |
| 9 | The rich ignore the simplest things in the area of earning , making , keeping , regarding money , and the bear-leader forgot to put any receptacle for money on the ground in front of them . |
| 10 | The Bayeux tapestry gives a magnificent cartoon report of the action , but it needs to be seen as a piece of victorious Norman propaganda ; it is to be doubted that the English spent the previous night in carousing whilst the Normans engaged in earnest prayer . |
| 11 | The English held the principal castles , especially in the south-east , but they could not control the countryside and by May 1337 English power was limited to Lothian , the Borders and Dumfriesshire . |
| 12 | " In concluding this Report the Undersigned have the greatest pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal and ability of Mr. Gurney , in which they are joined by the Visitors who attended the Examination . |
| 13 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 14 | Because that implies that this kind of thing then spreads to other areas of life , I mean it , after all the revolution of seventeen ninety eight did n't have anything to do with erm industrial relations as such , I mean it was er it was really about the monarchy , the state and er people starving and all that stuff , but the this introduces the interesting idea that once you 've got a kind of pattern in the culture to something , it can then reappear in other areas . |
| 15 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 16 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 17 | The British ran the Indian subcontinent for 200 years , from the middle of the eighteenth century through World War II without making any fundamental changes in organization structure or administrative policy . |
| 18 | One such was the Barisan Banteng , Wild Buffalo Corps ( whom the British called the Black Buffaloes ) . |
| 19 | Delville Wood , lying on a ridge of high ground , was crucial to the Somme offensive , for its capture would allow the British to penetrate the second line of German defences . |
| 20 | ( Do the British want the National Health Service abolished by European directive ? ) |
| 21 | However , as in India , the British preferred the traditional leaders of society and emphasised the importance of the chiefs . |
| 22 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 23 | Before the British destroyed the surrounding buildings in 1857 , the Naqqar Khana gave on to an enclosed courtyard leading up to the Diwan-i-am , the forty-pillared Hall of Public Audience , the site of the Imperial Durbars . |
| 24 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |
| 25 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 26 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 27 | In November 1946 the French bombarded the Vietnamese part of Haiphong after unrest there . |
| 28 | In July 1830 the French overthrew the main line of the Bourbon dynasty and replaced it with a cadet branch represented by King Louis Philippe . |
| 29 | At Bouvines in 1214 , the French overcame the joint Anglo-Welf forces : the old Angevin empire was never to be restored and Otto died almost landless in 1218 . |
| 30 | The sad fact is , however , that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group . |