Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 2 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister opened the debate , he made it clear that he had sensed right the mood of the House and of the British people . |
| 3 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 4 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 5 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 6 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 7 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 8 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 9 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 10 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 11 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 12 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 13 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 14 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 15 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 16 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 17 | At this point , the chairman of the governors suggests that the job should be redefined so the post is offered to Valerie Way and was recorded in the sub-committee 's minutes in the following terms : |
| 18 | So if I 'm late for work one day , you 'll know why , I 've probably fallen down a hole somewhere . |
| 19 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 20 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 21 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 22 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 23 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 24 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 25 | It was too big to have fallen down the plug-hole , or so it was reckoned . |
| 26 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 27 | Neo-suedehead singer Andy appears to have gone through a second puberty , his former growling style of delivery having fallen down an octave well and climbed out deeper and darker . |
| 28 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 29 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 30 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |