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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One such was the Barisan Banteng , Wild Buffalo Corps ( whom the British called the Black Buffaloes ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( Do the British want the National Health Service abolished by European directive ? ) |
| 13 | However , as in India , the British preferred the traditional leaders of society and emphasised the importance of the chiefs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 19 | In November 1946 the French bombarded the Vietnamese part of Haiphong after unrest there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The sad fact is , however , that in Britain the old have the worst housing of any group . |
| 23 | The emerging calculations implied that muon catalysed fusion would not release as much energy as was needed to create the muons ; even if the muon were as stable as Alvarez 's ‘ ten or twenty minutes ’ the sticking makes the useful production of energy out of reach . |
| 24 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 25 | The Japanese studied the British motor cycle industry carefully , learned their lessons and became world beaters . |
| 26 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 27 | Japanese security houses such as Nomura now challenge such US financial giants as Merrill Lynch in their own back yard , while the US giants together with the Japanese challenge the European leaders each in their own chasse gardée . |
| 28 | The Japanese took the initial technology and kept moving it forward . |
| 29 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 30 | And this I I find is one of the helpful things and when you get together not during the actual talking the actual session but er . |