Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils become involved in the collection and manipulation of data and are motivated validity of the end product so that projects lose the contrived which marred many projects in the past . |
| 2 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 3 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 4 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 5 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 6 | ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 9 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 10 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 11 | Throughout the 1690s he advanced substantial sums through various channels . |
| 12 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 13 | The internationalisation of Arab banking was encouraged by the oil price rises of the 1970s which generated large petro-dollar surpluses for a number of Persian Gulf states . |
| 14 | It was the latter which represented new clearings . |
| 15 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 16 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 17 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 18 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 19 | So far 500 individuals are seeking to become members , compared with the 970 who joined last year , and the 2,572 who joined in 1987 . |
| 20 | The Evil One sought totalitarian control by wresting the allegiance of all human beings away from God and fostering the human stubbornness that refuses to submit to any authority . |
| 21 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 22 | They were recorded on ‘ moulded ’ cylinders , not wax , so I was not surprised when the first one gave sensible sounds at the conventional speed . |
| 23 | This book was in effect the first which emphasized contemporary processes and underlying physical principles and it focused upon river channels , drainage systems , slopes and had some reference to climatic-inspired systems . |
| 24 | To the first he gave five bags of gold , to the second , two bags , and to the third , one bag of gold . |
| 25 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 26 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 27 | Around 78 per cent were under 45 , and even in Cornwall fewer than 1,000 of the 13,000 who migrated last year were of retirement age . |
| 28 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 29 | The 91 patients in Soutar & Wilson 's study were asked their opinion about the effect of noise on sleep and of the 28 who admitted that sleep was more difficult in hospital than at home , only 9 said it was because of the noise . |
| 30 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |