Example sentences of "attack [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horne died 14 February 1969 of a heart attack during the awards presentations of the Guild of British Film and Television Producers at the Dorchester Hotel , London . |
| 2 | The compact , organized attack of the Moors shook the Christians ; they were more used to single combats where the actions of one man could turn the day . |
| 3 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 4 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 5 | There is evidence of a stampede as meat-eating theropods attacked a herd of herbivorous hypsilophodontids browsing in a region of Australia , and some paleontologists have managed to work out the method of attack of the predators and the defensive posture of the herds . |
| 6 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 7 | Still to come on Central South … the attack of the Tigersharks . |
| 8 | He was thrown about in the back of the car and the driver was having a Chinese attack of the wobblies made worse by bouts of dizziness and sickness due to the height at which they were travelling . |
| 9 | They got an attack of the wobbles . |
| 10 | Attack of the worms |
| 11 | Ann was full of congratulations for them , but Harry had an attack of the grumps . |
| 12 | Only the Rutland and the Wasp generators required the angle of attack of the blades to be set manually . |
| 13 | 1988 ) , despite Faragher 's argument , although primarily in our case because the man redirected his attack towards the police . |
| 14 | The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the President " to take all necessary steps to repel any armed attack against the forces of the USA . " |
| 15 | Now Taylor is looking forward to forcing himself into the England pace attack alongside the likes of Chris Lewis , Devon Malcolm and Phil DeFreitas . |
| 16 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 17 | He then gave a press conference in which he launched a fierce attack upon the Democrats , accusing them of failing to produce any deficit reduction proposals and of playing politics with the budget issue . |
| 18 | Clauses seeking to exclude liability , especially in standard form contracts , have come under strong attack from the judges in recent years . |
| 19 | As a consequence , following Henry VIII 's break with Rome and more particularly after the accession of the Protestant Edward VI , the traditional beliefs and devotional practices of the English laity came under fierce attack from the reformers . |
| 20 | Now with the absence of the Iraqi air force , are they being held back until we have lost sufficient aircraft , and with no back up aircraft , and erm then we will our erm airforce and our land forces will be under attack from the Iraqis and the war will be a prolonged war . |
| 21 | The regimes of both units came under considerable attack from the interviewees . |
| 22 | Finding herself , for the first time in her life , under threat of attack from the skies , Cassie felt enormously exposed and vulnerable . |
| 23 | Finally , because of the difficulty which individual workers find in withdrawing from closed shop agreements , individual liberty in this country is directly under attack from the unions . |
| 24 | Beginning with a bargain struck between the Crown and the nobles , and then moving into a skilful attack in the lawcourts , the government managed to persuade Parliament into passing in 1536 the great Statute of Uses which turned the ‘ use ’ into a legal estate and abolished completely this method of evasion . |
| 25 | Tragedy marred the opening race at Folkestone this afternoon , when runner-up Diddy Seat , collapsed and died after a heart attack in the winners enclosure . |
| 26 | ‘ Unfortunately , the ceiling we are working on suffered worm attack over the years and was restored in the 1940s using a wax resin , which turned it brown , and cellulose repairs , which shrank , creating further problems . |
| 27 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 28 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 29 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 30 | On March 7 , Colombian television reported that five policeman had been killed in an FARC attack on a police garrison in El Retorno in the San José del Guaviare municipality . |