Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 2 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 4 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 5 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 6 | With Albert he planned the royal children 's education and systematized the royal household . |
| 7 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 8 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 9 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |
| 10 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
| 11 | Yesterday Johanna 's ex-boyfriend Ryan Firman , 17 , visited the isolated lovers ' lane where her body was found on Boxing Day . |
| 12 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 13 | Ronald Searle created an infamous girls ' school called what ? |
| 14 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 15 | Even Gorbachev proclaimed the Soviet Unions ' interest in participating in the management of the world market economy . |
| 16 | Pat Crowley and Roy Roper scored the All Blacks ' tries . |
| 17 | Clive Allen , Tim Breacker and Trevor Morley scored the other Hammers ' goals while John Durnin , Jim Magilton and Andrew Melville netted for Oxford . |
| 18 | The injuries may give Tony Clement , who scored the only backs ' try for the Lions , a reward for his versatility . |
| 19 | Many drugs will be available over the counter instead of by doctor 's order only , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley told the Medical Journalists ' Association in London yesterday . |
| 20 | The newly appointed Minister of Agriculture , Kumbirai Kangai , told the Commercial Farmers ' Union on July 16 that the government would reconsider plans to confiscate 13 commercial farms under the terms of the controversial Land Acquisition Act approved in March [ see p. 38804 ] . |
| 21 | By 1988 the programme had shifted 600,000 jobs from the public to the private sector and reduced the nationalized industries ' share of GDP to 6.5 per cent . |
| 22 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 23 | MR PADDY Ashdown yesterday staked the Liberal Democrats ' claim to offer British politics a ‘ moral voice ’ for the 1990s , building on its stance over Hong Kong and the Vietnamese refugees . |
| 24 | A dramatic rise in fuel costs after 1973 , which affected the national brewers ' distribution costs more than the smaller regional ones ' . |
| 25 | Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor . |
| 26 | She walked rapidly back to the hotel and collected her car from the parking area , then drove back and parked a few cars ' lengths from the boatyard . |
| 27 | ANNADALE Striders dominated the senior men 's event at the NIAAF Road Racing Championships at a rain-lashed Ormeay Park , Belfast . |
| 28 | I welcomed the Mozartean Players ' disc of the two Mozart Piano Quartets ( ) with open arms and I must say that I like their set of the Trios even more . |
| 29 | In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments . |
| 30 | He streaked the junior men 's event with a distance of 57.18 metres and showed his worth by finishing third to Great Britain 's Paul Head in the senior men 's section , making 52.54 with the heavier hammer . |