Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within this context the acts represented a high point of sanitary interventionism . |
| 2 | The Acts introduced a whole code of procedure , the Rules of the Supreme Court , which in various ways assimilated the Common Law and the Equity procedure , taking the good points of both . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the apparent acceptance of prostitution in the Acts evoked a strong response from feminists , led by Josephine Butler , and from social moralists , which was directed particularly against the state regulation of vice . |
| 4 | After the greyness and isolation of winter , the crowds seemed a mad profusion of seething colour , all the time moving , all the time talking . |
| 5 | There is no universal agreement , for example , that the mid-1970s represented a fundamental break in political attitudes — aspects of the ‘ new ’ capitalism coming from the Conservative party in the mid-1970s can be traced back to Churchill 's administration in the early 1950s ( Raban , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The sub-licensees paid a fixed fee , unrelated to their profits , to the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | The change of heart — five months after the clubs rejected a similar deal — was confirmed by league chairman Sir John Quinton in London . |
| 8 | Last night the clubs issued a joint statement saying their executive officers had an amicable meeting at which the development plans were discussed . |
| 9 | The Pirates were three down at Humberside before rallying to take the lead but the Seahawks salvaged a 6-6 draw with a late goal by Grant Slater . |
| 10 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 11 | The deportations drew a strong protest from Mr Robert Van Leuween , the head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees office in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | To make matters worse , even in their depleted condition the cities remained a vital source of income to the government . |
| 13 | During their researches , however , the Canadians made an important discovery . |
| 14 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 15 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 16 | The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language . |
| 17 | These provisions gave rise to uncertainty largely because the courts showed a marked reluctance to interpret them according to the ordinary meaning of such words as ‘ void , and they also gave rise to injustice because under the Common Law an infant could still sue an adult upon a contract unenforceable against himself and incapable of ratification by him . |
| 18 | So at one end of the scale , the courts upheld a restrictive covenant in the contract of an employee of an international armaments manufacturer called Maxim Nordenfeldt , which extended throughout the world for the whole of the man 's life . |
| 19 | On the Somme in 1916 , the British used 15in weapons , while in 1918 the Germans produced a long-range gun with which to bombard Paris . |
| 20 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 21 | A few days later the Germans launched a strong counter-attack near Salerno where the Allies had landed . |
| 22 | Within days , the Germans launched a new peace offensive . |
| 23 | Then , on 10 November , the Germans launched a massive attack against the French in the north of the salient toward Dixmude . |
| 24 | During the discussions , it is clear that the Germans played a decisive role , insisting right at the end of the discussions ( at the penultimate meeting in March 1989 ) on binding rules on national budget deficits . |
| 25 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 26 | The Germans withstood an early flurry before creating chances of their own . |
| 27 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 28 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 29 | With the single exception of the Polish Gymnazium in Kulm , the Germans had a total monopoly on higher education . |
| 30 | Later , in addition to the standard type , with barbs every 30cm/12in , the Germans introduced a new type of wire with steel strips cut into sharp-edged and pointed triangles . |