Example sentences of "[art] [adj] five [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The old Five Bells we know was of this date and is one of the buildings that can be identified .
2 The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health .
3 Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work .
4 For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself .
5 A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges .
6 It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again .
7 Over the first five years he introduced new locomotive designs and continued the development of the main-line ‘ Pacific ’ type , incorporating detailed improvements pioneered by George Jackson Churchward [ q.v. ] of the Great Western , whose work he greatly admired .
8 For the first five days she was not mentioned , and Edward was treated with polite caution .
9 He uses the same methods as with the other five people he has so far deceived , his ‘ outward action ’ being the opposite of the ‘ native act and figure ’ of his heart , but he carries the principle of inversion much further .
10 So you tell them about the thirty five percent you tell them about the banker 's order that will need signing .
11 The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare .
12 ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair .
13 During the past five years we have identified a total of 12 patients with endoscopically confirmed chronic DU disease unassociated with current or recent H pylori infection ( Table 1 ) .
14 For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children .
15 The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket .
16 I think this is because for the last five months I was pregnant I was so withdrawn and would n't talk to anybody — would n't go out of the house , I used to sit upstairs or here hoping she would n't kick too hard and my dad would n't see anything .
17 During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts .
18 ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that .
19 Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss .
20 Through reorganizing my course material over the last five years I have come to the conclusion that there is no one definitive structure for the study of electronic publishing .
21 Over the last five years I have moved into working with practising teachers and other members of the education service .
22 For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain .
23 The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally .
24 He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport …
25 In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour .
26 And in the last five years he 's too old to do it .
27 And for the last five years he had been doing just that .
28 When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet .
29 For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain .
30 By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits .
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