Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollution and weathering battered the surface of the glass . |
| 2 | We last met the Secretary of State in May 1991 . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Groves , as a young girl , had been befriended by the Queen who met the cost of her education at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 4 | When the county council were given permission to station the mobile library on the car park , they met the cost of re-surfacing . |
| 5 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 6 | David and Linda Leeder , of Wayside , Shalford , near Braintree met the archdeacon of Colchester , the Very Reverend Ernest Stroud in a bid to get the church to change its mind over the refusal . |
| 7 | I met the rest of the family , had a fine meal and then at the end Gennaro , who is the head of the whole household , gave me your letter ! |
| 8 | Gwendolen , thoroughly upset by the morning 's events but mindful of her appointment for dinner that evening , decided to slip into Mr Horrell 's , in order to purchase some of his advertised Special Skin Soap , In the doorway she met the subject of her dinner appointment himself . |
| 9 | Both the proposals and the practice met the spirit of the age : new cities planned to be environmentally attractive , socially acceptable and economically viable gained support from both public opinion and commercial interests . |
| 10 | The merchant then met the Queen of Pleasures . |
| 11 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 12 | We met the equivalent of this knife-edge , you will remember , in the story of the Grudgers and Cheats in Chapter 10 . |
| 13 | But I honestly do n't think she would unless she met the man of her dreams . |
| 14 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 15 | IT WAS a unique night down at Newtownards Flying Club , when the new boys met the Battle Of Britain aces . |
| 16 | In February 1983 I again met the Head of the Art Department . |
| 17 | The road-builders ' diet , mainly cheese and biscuits , was monotonous , but for the average soldier if the beer supply was adequate everything was all right and Wade met the problem of a lack of local supplies in a typically sensible way , as he reported to London in 1733 |
| 18 | Children from all over the country who 've triumphed over adversity met the Princess of Wales today . |
| 19 | Mr. Adley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he last met the chairman of the Wales tourist board ; and what was discussed . |
| 20 | I met the chairman of Northumbria police authority on 1 November when I visited Tyneside . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he last met the chairman of Nuclear Electric to discuss the future of the nuclear generating industry . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met the chairman of health boards in Scotland to discuss finance . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he last met the chairman of the Northern regional health authority to discuss the financial budget of East Cumbria district health authority . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he last met the chairman of British Coal to discuss redundancy payments for mineworkers . |
| 25 | To ask the Attorney-General when he last met the chairman of the Law Commission to discuss the Commission 's programme for law reform . |
| 26 | Under the scrutiny of Hayward and Browne , he began to revise and concentrate his verse — after the problems with The Family Reunion , he wished to use only poetry which met the test of " strict dramatic utility " although at a later date he was to worry in case he had strayed too close to the drama of Frederick Lonsdale . |
| 27 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 28 | Two days after seeing my surgeon and exactly a week before going into hospital , aided by my wife , I crawled up to London and met the hero of the book . |
| 29 | I also met the Duke of Fife and his daughter Lady Alexandra Carnegie who looked most attractive in blue ; Mr James Sherwood , Mrs Mary Ann Free , the Countess of Mansfield , Mr and Mrs Richard Stanley , Mrs Tom Hall , her son and daughter-in-law Captain and Mrs Edward Hall ; Mrs Julian Benson , Mrs Mervyn Bourdillon , and Miss Sarah Bourdillon . |
| 30 | Jean de Dammartin , in Beaumanoir 's story met the earl of Oxford 's retinue on the road from Dover to London on their way to parliament . |