Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 2 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 3 | It transpired that the foundations of the chimney were inadequate , with the result that the entire structure sank some ten inches , taking floors and arches with it ! |
| 4 | Under Maastricht ( Article 104C ) , it is , for instance , proposed that the authorities in Brussels should be able to impose fines on countries which do not obey the edicts of EEC institutions . |
| 5 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 6 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 7 | He proposed that the links should ‘ be provided by the Corporation , and the Town Council be charged to do it ’ . |
| 8 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 9 | However , Yeltsin proposed that the heads of executive power at local level would in future be elected by the localities and not appointed by the President [ for threats to dissolve the Congress of People 's Deputies see p. 38875 ] . |
| 10 | In 1347 he promised that the grievances of the Commons should be remedied by Chancery writs against Forest officers , but next year ‘ the commons of the county of Surrey and of other counties ’ complained that although they had sued for a writ in the Chancery , they had not been able to obtain the promised remedy . |
| 11 | She promised that the devils would be cast out of Timothy Gedge , as it said in the Bible . |
| 12 | Finally , complementing these results Andreasen demonstrated that the relatives of her chosen authors also showed unusual creative talent , though over a wider sphere than the literary , including art , music , dance , and mathematics . |
| 13 | Furthermore , in vitro binding analyses demonstrated that the mutations interfered directly with CytR-DNA interactions whereas binding of cAMP-CRP remained unchanged . |
| 14 | Virginia was staring at Horatia , her lips almost blue , her pupils so dilated that the eyes looked black . |
| 15 | Ratepayers who formed this local group grumbled that the police were conspicuous by their absence . |
| 16 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 17 | The Deputy Prime Minister responsible for legislative affairs , Pavel Rychetsky , maintained that the proposals were justified by the need to protect democracy . |
| 18 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom maintained that the conditions relating to residence and domicile and the condition that the vessel must be operated , directed and controlled from within the United Kingdom were necessary adjuncts to the nationality requirement . |
| 20 | But the current myth at that time maintained that the volunteers were to be used only for guard and communication duties . |
| 21 | His views were modified by his son Reginald , who maintained that the features which suggested Mongolian origins were ‘ accidental and superficial ’ , being associated with others which were in no way characteristic of the Mongol race ( Journal of Medical Science , vol. lii , 1906 , pp. 188–9 ) . |
| 22 | They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula . |
| 23 | Siegfried Kordus , the Mecklenburg police chief in charge ( who was later replaced ) , maintained that the attacks had been co-ordinated by citizens ' band radio and that protesters had driven in from Berlin , Hamburg and other towns . |
| 24 | Urwick maintained that the hopes for a sound economy rested on state interference , more than on ‘ the exaggerated hopes ’ of the various skilled employment committees . |
| 25 | The first Jewish embassy to Rome under Judas Maccabaeus appears to have included the historian Eupolemus , who wrote a history of the Jews in Greek and maintained that the Phoenicians and consequently the Greeks had learnt the art of writing from Moses ( cf. |
| 26 | Some said there would be no more than a brief lull to refurbish and reprovision , and then another attempt ; others maintained that the troops would be paid off — if they were so lucky as to be paid ! — and disbanded from Shrewsbury , for it was too late in the year now to favour an invasion . |
| 27 | However , the company maintained that the redundancies had been carried out in accordance with an agreement with the union and therefore they were of necessity fair . |
| 28 | It was n't that she doubted that the Allies would win — of course they would . |
| 29 | Discussions are continuing with the artist about a second work , but Wilson , on his way to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship , told The Art Newspaper that he doubted that the funds for a new commission would be forthcoming . |
| 30 | On a similar matter a local resident mentioned that the owners of the property known as Rivendell have , in effect , extended their garden by planting shrubs etc on the grass verge thus making it impossible for either vehicles or pedestrians to use this as a refuge in an emergency . |