Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 2 | There were several types of plan used for villas , and the grandest were made in the form of an open square with the buildings forming four sides of an open courtyard . |
| 3 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 4 | Whilst coffins of this type were produced for vault and brick-lined shaft deposit they were also required for intramural earth-cut graves ; one such example from the 1820s was discovered during the excavations at St Mary 's Church , Little Ilford , Essex in 1984 . |
| 5 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 6 | The wounded were treated by the Commando 's calm Irish doctor , Captain Sam Corry RAMC , who remained unruffled by the turmoil , and the casualties were sent out to the ships . |
| 7 | Doctors who tried to help the wounded were caught in the crossfire , and in some places ambulances also came under attack . |
| 8 | ERCP was successful in all patients and in each case the stent was inserted in the CBD by the endoscopic route , during the same session ; there were no sphincterotomy related complications . |
| 9 | This event of historic importance had occurred in 1957 when full membership of the World Federation of the Deaf was accorded to the BDDA . |
| 10 | The further sums payable by the Prudential were paid under the development agreement not for the sale but for the performance of the developer 's obligation to complete the development . |
| 11 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 12 | All the spectacular demonstrations of the unemployed were organized by the NUWM , including the Hunger Marches of 1932 , 1934 , and 1936 . |
| 13 | The Faithful was working off the Yorkshire coast last November when it was in a collision with a Bridlington trawler and almost sunk . |
| 14 | The apostles and the communities of the faithful were driven by the Spirit , faith and the knowledge of the Risen Lord . |
| 15 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 16 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 17 | But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the British were looking towards the war 's end and the possible shape of civil aviation even before the United States entered the conflict . |
| 19 | The British were squeezed by the tax-man until the pips squeaked — Aneurin Bevan 's phrase . |
| 20 | The Punjab had stood firm in 1857 ; the emirs of Northern Nigeria , it was noted with pride , stood firm in 1914 , when the British were forced by the outbreak of war with Germany to denude the area of troops . |
| 21 | He thought the British were angered by the extent to which the Shah had criticized British sloth in recent years . |
| 22 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 23 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 24 | Yet in 1340 Philip VI was already showing himself to be master of the tactic which the French were to employ in the years to come , that of avoiding direct contact with the enemy . |
| 25 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 26 | In 1881 the 35th was linked with The 107th Regiment of Foot , which was raised in 1854 as part of the Bengal Infantry . |
| 27 | The six were charged with the murder of three men in Bushenyi district in the south-west in 1983 . |
| 28 | Mr Dear repeated that , although the six were interviewed by the squad , there was no link he could see , although he understood the well-placed concern — ‘ which must be highly confused now , given the way in which the pro-Provisional propaganda machine is running , fogging the issue ’ . |
| 29 | The most effective operations against the Japanese were launched by the Karens of the border hills who had never given up , awaiting the British return . |
| 30 | The first has existed since the setting up of the EC , and the second was created by the Maastricht Treaty . |