Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the activities included Ocarinas , recorders , strings , handchimes , singing games and country dancing .
2 His willingness to get into the crowds earned points .
3 In Rutherford 's experiment , the u-particles had energies of millions of electron volts .
4 Despite making good use of quotations and explaining its objectives clearly and quickly , the accounts lacked notes , and it also failed to explain one of its funds sufficiently .
5 The company denied that it had ceased trading on 25 October , and the accounts included purchases , unrelated to the Meadowbank development , which substantially exceeded the value of stock in the period 's balance sheet .
6 Marginally , more resources went to the Urban Programme , but the cities lost funds from mainstream expenditure .
7 The takings reached sums past Gabriel 's imagining .
8 By day , the defenders shot fire-bolts into the rising piles of brushwood , causing them to burst into flame and reducing their height by half .
9 The Courts established concepts of chivalry and honour ; each knight was to choose and serve one lady .
10 But the Germans had paratroopers so the British had no alternative .
11 And just as nobody at first believed that the Germans slaughtered Jews , nobody wanted to believe that young American soldiers could kill women and babies .
12 Many of the riders wore face-guards like visors in some medieval contest .
13 The OPCS recorded that 42 of 110 ( 38% ) admissions were alcohol related whereas review of the notes showed figures of 72 ( 65% ) .
14 The birds rubbed shoulders with Danny De Vito — who plays Batmans arch villain the penguin .
15 Yes , he said , it was true that the houses had grapes on the outside walls .
16 Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right .
17 The prisoners wore handcuffs , and iron chains on their legs .
18 Specific new curriculum developments identified in the proposals included initiatives in community education , applied science , geography , sociology , health education , child care and history , social education , the Schools Council history project , European studies and study skills courses .
19 March 1948 , the Russians imposed restrictions on traffic between the western zones and Berlin , which led , on 25th June to the Russians imposing a complete blockade of traffic into Berlin .
20 The latter was taken almost entirely from the wire services of Reuters and Agence France-presse , although the Times obtained stories from its sister papers in East Africa and the group 's London correspondent .
21 This method of assignment was intended to ensure that the groups contained schools from each of the participating authorities and were not widely different in terms of the social background of pupils , school size , and environment .
22 Usually the priors became proctors for the king , paying over to him a farm ( or rent ) , but as these farms were based on a high assessment many houses or cells sold or leased their property in order to buy denization .
23 Then , for five consecutive days , the researchers ran trials on each personality of the MPD sufferers and controls .
24 The researchers made recordings of black adolescents in five different situations , in an attempt to control the variables of race of interlocutor , gender and formality/informality .
25 The researchers studied levels of cotinine — a product of nicotine — in women undergoing assisted conception .
26 The researchers noted charges of ½ kilovolt — reduced in intensity from a normal auroral charge by several orders of magnitude .
27 After this first encounter , the researchers removed portions of the lizards ' tails and reintroduced the pairs .
28 People through the ages made images of the Tree of Life , as with the stone altar in Neolithic Malta with trees carved on all four sides .
29 As family businesses grew and the social standing of their owners improved , the alewives became ladies , to be replaced by the common brewers of the newly chartered Guild or Corporation of the Brewers and Maltsters of Dublin .
30 No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en .
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