Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On 10 March 1736 the Revd James Clegg , a Nonconformist minister and apothecary from Chinley in the heart of the Peak District , noted in his diary : ‘ An ancient man came for advice and brought a water [ a urine sample ? ] from beyond Southwell in Nottinghamshire , on foot , about 36 miles ’ ; no doubt he returned the same way .
2 Dr James I. Packer describes ‘ adoption ’ as ‘ the highest privilege that the gospel offers ; higher even than justification ’ ( packer 1973:230 ) .
3 It was well known amongst that elite of which he was a part that the Chairman detested news of crisis .
4 It even seems to be capable of converting the fonts across by rasterising them and taking them across as a bitmap that the film recorder will image as a graphic .
5 [ In 1931 Andrew Mellon was accused by Congressman Louis McFadden of cheating on his 1931 income tax return and in March 1934 the Roosevelt administration duly announced that it would seek criminal tax evasion charges for $1.3 million .
6 At this point it is really interesting to note the variety of activities that the members of my class regard as ‘ useful ’ .
7 In March 1986 a BBC monitor report told of demonstrations in Tehran by students and others , ostensibly Gulf Arab nationals , protesting against Kuwaiti and Saudi support for the Iraqi war effort .
8 Basil Blackwell will publish in March 1986 the papers and proceedings of the June 1985 conference on ‘ Natural Resources and the Macroeconomy ’ .
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10 Edward still prevaricated , but at the Parliament of March 1299 the magnates extorted further concessions by the threat of armed force .
11 In the course of his review of the authorities , Walton J. made extensive citations from Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 a case he described , 269 E.G. 41 , 45 , as ‘ completely decisive of the present case , ’ and also cited the passage from the judgment of Younger L.J .
12 It really is a bit odd the way those two bits of the wood do not connect .
13 On 1 March 1198 the Cologne assembly met .
14 The usual proxy for the market in the UK is the FT All Share Index and this may also be found in the r m S. For October-December 1986 the return on the market was 28 per cent and the standard deviation of this was 14 per cent .
15 In March 1980 the state began to react to local concern .
16 It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please .
17 He was perhaps married twice for on 29 March 1799 a George Bullock was married to Elizabeth Mansell , a pawnbroker 's widow in Birmingham .
18 This includes ensuring that a proper market and proper information exist for the products that the exchange trades ; and that transactions are properly recorded .
19 In the year of assessment 1993/94 the trust has income of £50,000 .
20 It aims at increasing the number of trained programmers from the present 500 a year , to more than 22000 .
21 The government introduced in Parliament on March 12 a policy paper and tabled draft legislation intended to repeal 187 laws and innumerable regulations enforcing white ownership of 87 per cent of South Africa 's land .
22 On March 12 the government announced the further postponement of the presidential elections [ see p. 38754 ] to allow candidates sufficient time to campaign throughout the country .
23 On March 12 the UN Security Council responded to Aziz by reiterating that Iraq had " not yet complied fully and unconditionally " with Gulf ceasefire resolutions and that it " must immediately take the appropriate actions in this regard " .
24 On March 22 a UN technical mission arrived in Mogadishu .
25 On March 22 the US Senate approved a non-binding Concurrent Resolution which acknowledged that " Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of Israel " .
26 Sanctions remained in force , although on March 22 the Security Council 's sanctions committee did announce that humanitarian aid would be approved for Iraq under the terms of the original sanctions resolution ( 661 of Aug. 6 , 1990 — see p. 37639 ] in view of the circumstances of the threat of famine and epidemic .
27 On March 22 the captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez , Joseph Hazelwood , was acquitted of three major charges and convicted of one misdemeanour in connection with the oil spill caused by his vessel off the Alaskan coast in March 1989 , the worst in US history [ see pp. 36541 , 36606 ] .
28 A runner went to the prince half an hour since — by now he knows better than you .
29 ‘ Gilly , give Maime Trotter half a chance , OK ?
30 But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up .
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