Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GCP formed an electoral pact with the other opposition groups , among which the Northern People 's party ( NPP ) was the most formidable . |
| 2 | On the landing-stage below the Moebius Strip a dozen people were standing , sitting , lounging , arguing , drinking . |
| 3 | Also on Nov. 27 the FRUD declared a seven-day ceasefire as a sign of good faith . |
| 4 | The Eastons restored the ornamental paintwork , most of it imitation brickwork painted over the actual brick , and in the case of the wall paintings , have reinstated the full scheme . |
| 5 | If there is a Will , the executor has the right to decide whether it will be a burial or a cremation , whether the Will expresses a particular wish or not . |
| 6 | At the time , the appointment of a practising artist rather than an academic to the Tretyakov evoked a great deal of criticism . |
| 7 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 8 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 9 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 10 | Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere . |
| 11 | So the VCR delivers a true PAL Signal . |
| 12 | We will continue to target help through the Rural Development Commission , and ask the RDC to review the Rural Development Areas to ensure that its efforts are targeted on the areas of most need . |
| 13 | The Pentagon made an unofficial translation , which did the rounds on Capitol Hill . |
| 14 | The Pentagon expects the new Blackjack strategic bomber , which has swing wings like those of the USAF 's B-I , but is bigger , to enter service in 1986 or 1987 . |
| 15 | The Pentagon expects the Russian strategic rocket forces to complete re-equipping with the latest series of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) by the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | The second reason , strategically more important , was that the Pentagon wanted a closer look at what was going on between Aoun and Saddam Hussein . |
| 17 | The Yuppies presage the New Age . |
| 18 | In earlier times , the family had often held the key to power and women had more opportunity to influence affairs : thus , in feudal times , the Lady of the Manor supervised a large household , exercised great practical authority over both men and women , and stood in for her husband in his frequent absences from home . |
| 19 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 20 | For their part , the EEC states no more wish to deprive themselves of the benefits of wide free trade than do the comparatively wealthy Efta countries . |
| 21 | It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament . |
| 22 | The EEC pursues the dual policies of denying its markets to goods from these countries while dumping its own subsidised products abroad , policies paid for at considerable cost by its own consumers and taxpayers respectively . |
| 23 | For four decades after the signing of the Treaty of Paris , all the Member States of the EEC faced a common menace from the aggressive and expansionist Warsaw Pact . |
| 24 | The Inquirer proved a great success . |
| 25 | Perry 's foray to the Orient marked the true beginning of America 's global role ; it marked the emergence on the world stage of Japan , after two centuries of a xenophobia that almost bordered on paranoia ; and it allowed the creation — nervous at first , but gradually becoming more and more pronounced — of a trans-Pacific axis between , put at its most basic , California and Honshu — an axis around which the fortunes of today 's Ocean , and much of today 's world , revolves . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 27 | Whereas the Highlands have a low population density , and a short growing season , southern Italy has a relatively high population density ( despite a century of outmigration ) relative to available cultivatable land . |
| 28 | The LA keeps a watching brief on a haulier 's operations under his O licence ; the LA must revoke a standard licence if its holder is no longer of good repute , of satisfactory financial standing or professionally competent . |
| 29 | The RAF made a promising start and kept up with the French until Sgt Pete Woodward mistimed his landing . |
| 30 | The RAF enjoyed a territorial advantage throughout most of the game and their pack did what was required in preventing the Army forwards from winning the quality possession they sought . |