Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And if Davie 's principles make him what some might call ‘ elitist ’ or ‘ undemocratic ’ , as in his stinging verdicts on ‘ catchpenny enterprises … like the Arvon Poetry Competitions ’ , it is not without his having pondered the arguments about the place and function of elites and of high art in a democratic nation far more deeply than the bulk of his fellow countrymen . |
2 | It was held that the defendants were liable because they ought to have foreseen the possibility of the chemical coming into contact with water and they had not warned the buyers of this danger . |
3 | And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour . |
4 | Lord Diplock went on to say that the principle applies even though there is reason to think that if Parliament had foreseen the situation before the court it would have modified the words it used . |
5 | Another proposal , which would have limited the powers of the Commission 's special envoys ( rapporteurs ) to visit countries suspected of human rights abuses , was deferred to the 47th session . |
6 | It came into effect immediately , allowing multiparty politics and separating the executive , legislature and judiciary ; it also introduced the post of prime minister and limited the tenure of the president . |
7 | TUC opposition also limited the effectiveness of the NUWM , which became an embarrassment to the Communist Party once it left its sectarianism behind it . |
8 | Clearly , the absence of cheque guarantee cards limited the value of the cheque book facility . |
9 | Despite this increased concern a combination of intractable conceptual problems , inadequate statistical coverage and fragmented empirical work have limited the understanding of the location of services . |
10 | It was the business of the bishop to preach peace — and some of them actually did so ; yet a growing spirit of political independence , sometimes accompanying a furious anticlerical urge , limited the power of the bishop once the city had felt and tested its freedom . |
11 | This , he suggests , is a time when we have witnessed the ending of the construct of what he calls , ‘ the homogeneity of man ’ which was a product of a special political climate that has now passed . |
12 | The rapid progress with the construction of the railway , the past couple of weeks having witnessed the excavation of a cutting and preparation of about 500 feet of track bed , had enabled about 200 feet of track to be ready for the open day . |
13 | They had even witnessed the confiscation of the clergy 's goods and chattels to defray the nation 's expenses : a potent lesson for the future . |
14 | Here , after one has witnessed the grace of the Lord and the splendour of Heaven , Satan is reduced to a size unrecognisable to the monster in book one . |
15 | 1921 had witnessed the launch of the Poplar Council 's bitter struggle for equalisation of the rates ; by September 5000 unemployed men and women were marching to the West Ham guardians threatening trouble if demands for increased scales of relief were not met . |
16 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
17 | The Great War had witnessed the death of a world and a world order . |
18 | The development division has witnessed the end of an era with the disbanding of the team of clerks of works . |
19 | He had not realised the scale of the infestation , she said , until the following day . |
20 | The acceptance of Dalton as his patron by the uncompromisingly idealistic Richard seems odd , though he may not have realised the character of the man at this stage . |
21 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
22 | Roderick Hunt , defending Elsdon , said he had not realised the danger of the drugs . |
23 | Speaking after the meeting , the Rev. Colin Noyce told the Alton Herald that since arriving in the parish some 16 months ago , he has realised the need for an extension of pastoral care , together with extra room at the church . |
24 | From Oxford he 's travelled the world on a lifetime of adventure … |
25 | It was too late to begin to take action when the war fever had maddened the blood of the people , but if the warmongers in Germany and in this country knew beforehand that the working class of the two countries had come to an understanding , and would stand by it , the influence of that knowledge upon their counsels would be such as to compel them to submit to arbitration the points which would otherwise have been submitted to war . |
26 | So too have the damages awarded by US courts against manufacturers found to have polluted the environment to a degree that has recently been decreed unacceptable . |
27 | For his distraught family , only hanging would have avenged the death of the father of four . |
28 | Boutros-Ghali , however , complained in a letter to the UN Security Council on July 21 that the EC had not consulted the UN over the plan 's feasibility , leaving him , as Secretary-General , " in the invidious position of having to advise the [ Security ] Council on the implementation of a mandate behind which the Council has already thrown its political support " . |
29 | Radovan may not have completed the work on the doorway , but his pupils continued in his style . |
30 | Ing C Olivetti SpA has completed the installation of a database system for the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery : the gallery houses 50,000 works of art and the new database contains 200,000 images and 600,000 descriptions . |