Example sentences of "[num] and [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 2 | A majority of 10 EC Foreign Ministers rejected the Netherlands draft at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 30 and demanded the reinstatement of the earlier Luxembourg text . |
| 3 | These , and a series of 2–2–2 type machines with inside cylinders , continued to be built until 1895 and hauled the principal express trains . |
| 4 | The Nazis polled over seventeen million votes on 5 March 1933 and began the transformation of Germany into a totalitarian state . |
| 5 | He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916–17 and became an alderman in 1921 . |
| 6 | After that maryed to William Lambarde , Gent the 28th July 1583 and died the 1st Sept. 1587 , leaving on lyve by William Dalyson , Sylvestre , a daughter and Maximillian a son ; and by William Lambarde , Multon , a son , Margaret a daughter and Gore and Fane sonnes and twins " . |
| 7 | He was knighted in 1885 and created a baronet later the same year . |
| 8 | In Goa the new Chief Minister , Ravi S. Naik [ see p. 37964 ] , expanded his ministry on Feb. 12 and won a vote of confidence in the state legislative assembly on Feb. 18 . |
| 9 | He travelled in France in 1788 , 1789 and 1790 and founded the Farmers ' Club in 1794 . |
| 10 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 11 | Wendy was twenty-one and wore an apricot-coloured shortie nightie in brushed nylon . |
| 12 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 13 | Serbia was occupied in 1439 and became a Turkish province , but Murad 's siege of Belgrade in 1440 was repulsed by the Hungarians . |
| 14 | Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which introduced the quota system , amended article 100 of the Act of Accession 1972 and formed an important part of the Act of Accession 1985 . |
| 15 | Edward Heath disbanded the government and parliament of Northern Ireland in March 1972 and created a new post of secretary of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Prices on the major US and UK commodity exchanges began to rise very rapidly in 1972 and maintained the pace through 1973 . |
| 17 | She had lain on her bed at her farmhouse home on January 2 and put a double-barrelled shotgun to her head . |
| 18 | The reshuffle was effective from Oct. 2 and involved a total of 642 officers . |
| 19 | Rabuka , who in May 1987 had ousted the civilian government elected one month earlier , was appointed Prime Minister on June 2 and named a coalition government on the following day . |
| 20 | His brother William , who had started a ‘ cabinet of curiosities ’ in Birmingham in 1800 , moved to Liverpool in 1801 and opened a museum . |
| 21 | Richardson scored 53 and shared a second wicket partnership of 141 with man-of-the-match Lara , who hit 14 boundaries and made his runs from 132 deliveries before being run out . |
| 22 | , in Chambers Street , was founded as a technical institute in 1821 and became a fully- fledged university in 1966 . |
| 23 | Joined the Group in 1985 and played a major role in developing the Group 's gas turbine division . |
| 24 | He joined Comprehensive Financial Services , which later became Rathbone Brothers , in 1985 and became a director in 1990 . |
| 25 | Associated with Wood Group 's US development since 1985 and joined the Group as a director in 1986 . |
| 26 | Sam Torrance was promised a bonus of £20,000 had he emulated his feat in 1985 and holed the winning putt at the Ryder Cup . |
| 27 | The White Wizard ( one of Bash 's predecessors ) originally entered the text-adventure world of Fantasia way back in 1985 and found the well-presented environment a mite too dull for his liking . |
| 28 | In 1986 France had undertaken to punish two secret agents who came to Auckland in July 1985 and sank the Rainbow Warrior , a ship used by Greenpeace environmental activists in protests to highlight French nuclear testing in the Pacific [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] . |
| 29 | He left Aberystwyth in 1879 and spent a year in Oxford on a non-collegiate basis . |
| 30 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |