Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the increased growth of tension in the East End in 1936 the Security Service became interested in the activities of the IFL . |
| 2 | They became interested in the peculiarities of the Celtic society they tried to control and subdue . |
| 3 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 4 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 5 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 6 | Mr Wakenshaw 's parachute became tangled in the wheels of a plane and he was dragged along its fuselage . |
| 7 | The fletchings were dyed in Alexei 's colours , and gleamed silver-grey in the shafts of light which penetrated the shop . |
| 8 | Besides , there was safety in the farm enclosure after the gates had been barred at night , whereas in the street below their apartment the way lay open in either direction , and presences palpitated unseen in the arches of the carriage doors under each house . |
| 9 | The political and social tensions thrown up by this strategy became visible in the plans for the rescue and reform of prostitutes which feminists put forward as their alternative to regulation . |
| 10 | The dancers and music then swell to fill the stage again , ultimately to depart all sorrow spent with the child-like figure lifted high in the hands of one man and carried away out of sight whilst another dancer kneels low in homage as the music resolves the picture into a great Amen . |
| 11 | Charles worried about the effect it was having on her ; and grew angry and frustrated on his own behalf , that no one seemed interested in the ills of the world . |
| 12 | The chances of recruiting enough regulars seemed slender in the conditions of overfull employment prevailing in Britain in the 1950s . |
| 13 | On the other hand The Young Riders came 51st in the ratings in its first week , trailing far , far behind all the modern myths about modern times such as The Cosby Show , Roseanne , Golden Girls , Cheers and Matlock . |
| 14 | That night he had reached a moment of feeling no-one else had , and his cigarette burned unnoticed in the fingers of his hands which stretched out parallel like mute ghosts . |
| 15 | In the evening the surround tops flamed red in the rays of the setting sun and cheerful singing emanated from the tent of our happy go lucky band of sherpas . |
| 16 | Henry III 's damnosa hereditas made two sovereigns unequal when they became involved in the affairs of the surviving remnants of the Angevin Empire in south-west France . |
| 17 | In 1801 he became famous in the eyes of the general public by locating the exact position of the newly discovered ( and subsequently lost ! ) planet Ceres , this from very little information and where the best astronomers had failed . |
| 18 | He also finished second in the greens in regulation category with an average of 75% . |
| 19 | One of four Pakistan batsmen to hit over a thousand runs on this tour , he finished second in the averages with just under 60 . |
| 20 | During the war he served first in the ranks in Mesopotamia and subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Air Force . |
| 21 | While Unani medicine has completely died out in the area where it was born and developed , I had not been surprised to find that like almost every other tradition which has ever come to Delhi it still survived intact in the alleys of the Old City . |
| 22 | Otley at Keswick with his geology was tracing the origins of life in rock rather than parchment , in crystals , graptolites and trilobites from the millions-of-years-old fells in the Lake District rather than in scrolls kept dry in the deserts of the Middle East for a mere couple of thousands of years . |
| 23 | With a small sigh of surrender she fell asleep in the arms of a man she did n't understand , and wanted very badly to detest . |
| 24 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 25 | Weeds grew waist-high in the spaces between the rocks . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 27 | This military model of the disciplined body , responding instantly to word of command , remained paramount in the years before the First War . |
| 28 | Furthermore , a fear of revolution on the lines of that which had occurred in France still loomed large in the minds of the new English bourgeoisie , underpinning the demand for an organized police system geared to the protection of the life and property of the ruling classes ( Reiner 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |
| 30 | Excess land acquired for construction of the docks was not released , and the area remained remote in the minds of manufacturers . |