Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 512 at 527 explained that decision thus : The income never came into the coffers of the trustees , they never touched nor handled it . |
| 2 | Celtic 's problems on and off the park then looked like assuming the proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy until some uncharacteristic defensive laxity afflicted Aberdeen . |
| 3 | The opportunity then arose for me to be employed as a secretary to my husband — not an ideal working situation but it has been quite successful . |
| 4 | Differentiation between petty rural capitalists and poor or landless rural labourers was drawing a minority of peasants to the side of the bourgeoisie , while the interests of the majority objectively coincided with those of the proletariat . |
| 5 | In addition , a quarter of the principal carers provided daily help with getting up , washing face and hands , and going to bed ; the majority also helped with shopping , enabling the sufferer to go out , finances , washing , ironing and house cleaning . |
| 6 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 7 | The Bundesrat also voted on June 7 to reject a bill to limit arms exports . |
| 8 | The weakness still lived in his body but his urge to draw was reviving , he could feel it . |
| 9 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 10 | The Prince either stormed through life like a tornado or idled with a lack of haste that was almost feline . |
| 11 | The prince too looked at the German , turning his head and collar towards him and putting on his pince-nez , though without the slightest curiosity . |
| 12 | Here and there the limestone that cropped out among the heather and rough grass on the ridge above broke through the grass and mould in stony patches , fretted away occasionally into small scattered boulders , bedded into the turf and moss . |
| 13 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 14 | The Lieutenant nevertheless persisted in trying to enlighten the veteran soldier . |
| 15 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 16 | For many years the Government offered an annual award of 10000 Belgian francs for research into sexually transmitted diseases , but even this has been discontinued , perhaps because the award always went to a foreigner . |
| 17 | When the Board finally shifted from historic to current cost accounting in the same year , this had dramatic effect on the comparative costs . |
| 18 | However , the Board soon ran into difficulties . |
| 19 | The Board also succeeded in 1977 in persuading Ministers that , since the deprave and corrupt test would be applied by the BBFC in assessing the suitability of films for exhibition to the public , those same films should not suffer ‘ double jeopardy ’ in the sense of being subject both to censorship through prior restraint and also to the risk of private prosecutions for obscenity . |
| 20 | Members of the board then went to the organisation headquarters to reassure the staff — there are now 35 working on the project — that the Games would go ahead . |
| 21 | The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane . |
| 22 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 23 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 24 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 25 | The Canadian frequently came to the net , so Petchey had to rely on his passing shots , but not enough of them found the mark . |
| 26 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |
| 27 | The Brewery then consisted of a copper , a kieve , a mill , two malthouses , stables for 12 horses and a loft to hold 2000 tons of hay . |
| 28 | But , Gordon confesses , the try really resulted from him being a bit slow on the occasion . |
| 29 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 30 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |