Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These disturbances must have been minimized , however , where the defences ran through the fringes of the main settlement , as they appear to have done at Kenchester . |
| 2 | Oslear , a one-time Grimsby stevedore , had privately put pressure on the International Cricket Council to confirm Lamb 's claim that the Pakistanis tampered with the ball during the one-day match at Lord 's nearly a month ago . |
| 3 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 4 | But while the experts complained about the way ‘ soft soap ’ was sterilising British brains , only to then argue that on the other hand Neighbours was ‘ allowing more public expressions of family emotions ’ , Kylie was taking full advantage of the situation . |
| 5 | The crowds weaved around the barrow boys selling Christmas wrapping paper and ribbon and those party-popper things which went bang and sent streamers of shredded Hong Kong daily newspapers across the room . |
| 6 | As successful as the works on paper were , the crowds came for the paintings , particularly the late Braque ‘ Atelier VIII ’ , ( 1952–55 ) conceived by the artist as the summation of his career , and which he had fervently hoped would never leave France . |
| 7 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 8 | When it saw what pleasure the servicemen had from the course , the Club was pleased its struggle to keep it open had been successful . |
| 9 | While the public sector pay explosion in the mid-1970s led to the demise of volume planning , the imposition of cash planning has proven a blunt instrument . |
| 10 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 12 | Television watching should be selective , and you should try to discuss the programmes watched with the patient , or relate them to pictures and stories in books or magazines , so that some intellectual stimulus is involved . |
| 13 | Her mumbles rose instantly to a terrifying scream as the flames jumped from the fire , ran along the hearth , and caught her robe . |
| 14 | To understand this , we first need to see how the problem of safety in the mines came to the attention of Sir Humphry Davy . |
| 15 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 16 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 17 | The icicles froze on the end of his nose |
| 18 | The defenders appealed to the Sheriff Principal , who refused the appeal . |
| 19 | Somebody from the village must have betrayed us , because the Germans came in the night and took the Jewish family away . |
| 20 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 21 | As expected , the Germans replied to the shelling with a heavy mortar attack on the area around the orchard . |
| 22 | It was like a German bloodbath — what the Germans did to the Jews . ’ |
| 23 | The coins clinked into the slot . |
| 24 | The coins sank between the bananas , apples and mushrooms . |
| 25 | As the Prayer Book enjoined in the Notes appended to the Communion Service , ‘ every Parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in the year , of which Easter to be one ’ . |
| 26 | Mother would cook on an open fire , the birds sang in the trees , and there was a bush in the corner which had white blossom , and roses grew wild everywhere . |
| 27 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 28 | A curved position-sensitive detector picks up the X-rays diffracted by the sample while its transmission spectrum is recorded by a photodiode array . |
| 29 | Vernons chief Malcolm Hughes said the plans went against the Government 's free market philosophy . |
| 30 | Only in the Lepismatidae and the Pterygota , however , has the evolution of transverse biting movements of the mandibles led to the appearance of a strong rigid tentorium . |