Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they first met for real the fierce , cold , autocratic , heroically self-made man 's beady eye and cockily addressed him as ‘ Washy ’ to his face , well , petrification set in , sometimes terminal . |
| 2 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 3 | In 1206 he helped to victual the fleet in preparation for John 's campaign in Gascony . |
| 4 | For the most part , however , he concentrated on other issues-the defects of the Government 's ‘ safeguarding ’ policy , the need for a body to co-ordinate the economic activities of the state , the responsibility for the general strike and , above all , the danger of a drift to war . |
| 5 | Tenants tried to injunct the president of the RICS from appointing an independent surveyor to act as an expert in a rent review . |
| 6 | It tried to injunct the newspaper , on the ground that the papers contained military and diplomatic secrets , the disclosure of which would substantially damage the national interest . |
| 7 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 8 | I noticed in particular the comment that at regional appeals , there were six members on the panel hearing the appeal , all paid . |
| 9 | Andrade treated the surface of glass with sodium vapour and produced linear patterns which seemed to intricate the existence of surface cracks . |
| 10 | ‘ It came on fine the night I was there . |
| 11 | The resolution welcomed in particular the decision by the Soviet Union and the USA " to cease the production of chemical weapons and to begin destroying their chemical weapons stockpiles " [ see pp. 37518 ; 37473 ; 38217 ] . |
| 12 | He admired in particular the durability of the man , and his capacity to absorb succinctly presented detail , and his ability for work . |
| 13 | Although a more general move away from the indigenous Gothic style of architecture and church design only began in earnest a century later after the Restoration , the trend was signalled as early as the 1630s with the construction of St Paul 's , Covent Garden . |
| 14 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 15 | But different as they were in appearance , temperament and background , they discovered in common a strong belief in the absolute reality of the supernatural world . |
| 16 | The lower carnitine concentrations seems to be secondary to the mucosal injury found in these patients , as a gluten free diet restored not only the injured mucosa , but also returned to normal the serum carnitine concentration . |
| 17 | Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s . |
| 18 | This included in particular the inability of humanism as a philosophy to place adequate constraints on the exercise of freedom and also its inability to generate that set of values which is necessary if capitalism is to work . |
| 19 | He fought to staunch the blood and stitch the wound , with the dog slipping towards unconsciousness . |
| 20 | Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem , speaking in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires , stated that he believed that the agreement " eliminated for good the possibility of armed conflict " between the UK and Argentina and would grant Argentina " broad possibilities " in the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | Theodora knew of old the willingness of the clergy to be far ruder over the phone than they would venture to be face to face . |
| 22 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 23 | The two small children I went with loved the show because it was , I suspect , magic . |
| 24 | This meant in particular a direct attack on public-sector institutions and their custodians . |
| 25 | The British Broadcasting Corporation , for instance , stressed in particular the need to observe the advice of military authorities " unless there are very strong reasons for not doing so " , and the need to be " circumspect " in showing pictures of death and injury of soldiers and civilians . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister , Marian Calfa , paid an official visit to South Africa on May 4-6 , during which he stressed in particular the advantage to both countries of closer economic co-operation . |
| 27 | The learned and scientific academies took in general a different course , since education in their disciplines was predominantly centred in the universities . |
| 28 | Although East Germany managed to staunch the flow on the eve of its 40th birthday , observers said it was still in danger of bleeding slowly to death , or of suffering convulsions brought on by repression on its streets . |
| 29 | It is likely , as I have said in another place , that he preferred in general the company of women to men . |
| 30 | At lunchtime she was taken across the road to the paper 's local , The Cross Keys , to meet the gang , at which initiation she remembered in particular a short , genial , Punch-like ‘ ex-RAF type ’ ( as he liked to call himself ) named Arthur Eperon , who later became a well-known travel writer . |