Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 2 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 3 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 4 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 5 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 6 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 7 | In fact , one could go further and claim that the negative image of the Jew provided a common denominator which was able to combine and provide justification for all these ideological themes . |
| 8 | Yet the utter transcendence and separation of the Other remained a vital mystical theme : mystics warned their co-religionists against the dangers of human projection and the creation of a new kind of idolatry by confusing ideas , concepts and doctrines of ‘ God ’ or the Absolute with the ineffable Reality itself . |
| 9 | That was the day after the Sally Nash trial started , and the day that Marius Steen 's terrible show , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other celebrated a thousand performances . |
| 10 | Out of the shed came a long , low , yellow-and-brown animal . |
| 11 | The significance of the question struck a buried chord , but she was too choked with angry emotion to query it . |
| 12 | The rich oral tradition of the pesme made a great impression on writers and folklorists during the Romantic revival of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The Døle , now extinct , was a dairy breed with two colour varieties , the dark-brown Gudbrandsdal and the black Østerdal , and a good proportion of the breed showed a tan-coloured dorsal stripe or a recessive grey-dun colouring . |
| 14 | The shaking of the head became a violent fit of denial , and he let out a strange sob , knowing back his head as he did so . |
| 15 | A flaw of the sun-wind blew a brown banner , some part of the back of her dress , out sideways . |
| 16 | Out of the darkness came a squat metal canister . |
| 17 | Then out of the darkness appeared a little white circle of light . |
| 18 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 19 | However , in 1971 a sub-committee of a committee of the council recommended that there be increases , but later the chairman of the committee gave a public undertaking that the numbers would not be increased above 300 until a private Bill then being promoted had been enacted . |
| 20 | The Chief Inspector put flame to his pipe once more and under cover of the smokescreen took a thin file out of the desk . |
| 21 | Members of the Academy turned a blind eye to the black marketeers , because the Seven Planets needed food and supplies and the corporations would n't trade with independent worlds . |
| 22 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 23 | Thus the Preface of the Catalogus Plantarum emphasised correct identification as a prime factor for success both in the nursery and the garden , and the text of the work presented a practical guide , suggesting the best uses for the new trees and shrubs with which there had been little experience . |
| 24 | The prestige of the government suffered a further blow , however , when it was revealed on April 9 that a second rebel had escaped from custody . |
| 25 | The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job . |
| 26 | The successive downward movements in the relative value of the dollar brought a marked improvement in US competitiveness . |
| 27 | Although this happened before my time with 57 Squadron one of the crew became a good friend before he remustered from A/G for pilot training and he was very proud of his Caterpillar Club membership . |
| 28 | Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order . |
| 29 | Along one side of the interior ran a zip-fastened pocket . |
| 30 | In spite of its violent assaults on the female image , Surrealism 's emphatic anti-academicism and dedication to an art of the interior struck a sympathetic chord in a repressive era when women were demanding the right to work and vote . |