Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beldam LJ reviewed the authorities and stated that deciding whether the defence applied involved answering two questions . |
| 2 | Though announcement of the link allowed short-term interest rates to fall by a percentage point to 11.4% , and pushed Swedish share prices up 3.5% in a day , it caused chaos in the lucrative Stockholm business of ‘ basket arbitrage ’ . |
| 3 | The Duke had powerful artillery and trained soldiers ; the Prince had lesser firepower and undisciplined goodwill . |
| 4 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 5 | Trent might have laughed had he not been thrown against the motor cycle as the hurricane drove Golden Girl aground . |
| 6 | Inevitably the change caused widespread dismay , and there were riotous demands to ‘ Give us back our 11 days ’ from people who thought they were losing wages or even having their lives shortened . |
| 7 | The trial made legal history when child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras . |
| 8 | This being refused he applied to the Board , and on 5 February 1992 the Board granted special leave . |
| 9 | The Board assumed legal ownership of all rolling stock , track , depôts and other assets on 1 July . |
| 10 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 11 | At the same meeting the Board approved medical relief on the application from relieving officers in the outlying parishes . |
| 12 | It was not until 584 that his bid for the throne made serious headway , and then only after the murder of Chilperic had left certain of his followers without a patron . |
| 13 | The case received wide publicity when a habeas corpus petition was upheld by two lower courts . |
| 14 | The case received enormous coverage and the popular press made much use of the opportunity to reveal the titillating detail from the court interaction . |
| 15 | The case raised endless safety questions . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom government requested that the Commission refer the case , as far as the bricks and clay tiles markets are concerned , on the grounds that the case raised significant competition issues in relation to these two product markets . |
| 17 | The case attracted wide publicity in the Soviet press . |
| 18 | The case created legal history and brought into question the whole attitude of the medical profession to the treatment and care of the newly born , severely handicapped . |
| 19 | The case aroused public disquiet as demonstrating that Evans 's conviction and execution had been miscarriages of justice ; there were two inquiries , and after the second Evans was granted a posthumous free pardon . |
| 20 | The case drew international attention not simply because of the issue of Harris 's mental health , but also because of California 's large number of prisoners on death row ( 328 after the death of Harris , out of 2,588 in the USA as a whole ) , and its tradition of liberalism . |
| 21 | The secretary-general of the PS , Jorge Sampaio , became mayor of Lisbon ( the capital ) , where the PS entered into an alliance with the Communists and the Greens ; the PS won absolute control in Oporto . |
| 22 | ‘ ECT is usually left to junior members of the staff … with little training and guidance ’ , A leading psychiatrist in the field told New Scientist that ‘ the commonest misuse of ECT is on people who are really unhappy , distressed or sad , rather than ill with a depressive illness . ’ |
| 23 | Moving from the shade to the middle of the field seemed sheer madness . |
| 24 | The computer programmed graded distribution in which the detail is random . |
| 25 | Polygen Molecular Simulations is an established leader in the development of molecular modelling software , formed by the merger of Polygen Corporation and Molecular Simulations Inc ( including Cambridge Molecular Design ) and serving the largest customer base in the Computer Assisted Molecular Design ( CAMD ) market . |
| 26 | Observers suggested that the election reflected widespread disillusionment with traditional party politics . |
| 27 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 28 | The publication of the decision caused widespread consternation , not least because Lacey had informed Barr as early as Oct. 26 that there were " sufficient specific and credible allegations " to extend his inquiry . |
| 29 | The decision drew fierce criticism , with the World Wide Fund for Nature warning that the country would become " an international pariah " , guilty of breaking the Law of the Sea . |
| 30 | The LAPD chief , Daryl Gates , responded to this outcry by authorising a series of ‘ anti-gang sweeps ’ , known as the Gang Related Active Trafficker Suppression programme ( GRATS ) . |