Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rich Lord of the Manor now stood in the middle of the hall revelling in his ostentatious show of wealth whilst servants placed high-backed chairs in front of the fire . |
| 2 | previously neither the Building Regulations nor the NHBC specifically legislated for this type of construction . |
| 3 | As the traditional champion of the small farmer the LDP also benefited from the electoral system 's tendency to give votes in rural constituencies up to three times the value of urban votes . |
| 4 | The LDP also suffered from the continuing consequences of the Recruit scandal ( in October Hishashi Shinto , one of the country 's most senior industrialists , was given a suspended two-year sentence for his role in the affair — see p. 37780 ) and the resignation from the party of a former Cabinet Minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , after being charged with large-scale tax evasion [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 5 | In the consideration given to the new policy , the position of the CNAA inevitably came under scrutiny , particularly what now appeared to be the permanent and powerful role it would develop in relation to the formally established public sector . |
| 6 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 7 | The ferry crews on regular service between Harwich and the Hook evidently took to their unexpected role as child minders . |
| 8 | His writings prior to departure make it abundantly clear that the image of the USSR firmly implanted in his mind was that of a country in full post-revolutionary expansion engaged in the construction of a new society , a new culture and a new man , a country in which social relations were no longer based on human exploitation , and in which the deathly oppression of an exploiting class had been eradicated . |
| 9 | On the opposite side of the subcontinent , in the eastern woodlands , the Iroquois also lived in oblong dwellings , known as ‘ long houses ’ , but they substituted birch-bark for planks . |
| 10 | While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control . |
| 11 | The Dobermann really came into its own as a domestic dog in the 1980s and , subsequently , far too many were bred . |
| 12 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 13 | The IMF also announced on April 20-22 that applications had been filed by Croatia , Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 14 | The seats , which won a major design award before the SL even went on sale , appear to be rather flat , but support your back and thighs well . |
| 15 | The Shah constantly said to those around him that while a dictator could survive by massacring the people , a king could never do so . |
| 16 | Despite many ingenious methods of providing transcendental excitement , the TOM only came into its own in the mid twenty-second century . |
| 17 | The design of the Clio actually began before the launch of the second generation Renault 5 . |
| 18 | The old monastic sites along the Twyver later came to be known as Barnwood , Court Farm , Fishers , Woods , Browns , Morins and Abbey Mills , the latter adjacent to the Cathedral , in what became known as Millers Green . |
| 19 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 20 | Before 1985 , there were few specialist primary advisers ; the LEA then started to rapidly expand the service , the exercise coinciding with restructuring of the administration as a whole . |
| 21 | The DGM thus argued for Banstead to be absolved from the competitive tendering process . |
| 22 | During the first quarter of the fourteenth century , the Armagnacs also benefited from their close ties with the Avignon papacy . |
| 23 | Scores from the RDLS also correlated with performance in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ) and the Word Reading Test after age 3 years , thus providing support for the test 's predictive validity . |
| 24 | The BMC immediately leapt on the white chargers they keep permanently tied up outside Crawford House in Manchester and thundered southward to deal with the problem once it arose . |
| 25 | The US reportedly wavered before opposing this compromise . |
| 26 | Galvanised by this exciting if slightly surreal achievement , fax in the US suddenly looked like developing in a new and radical direction : broadcast publishing . |
| 27 | The NRA also appealed to water users to use washing machines and dishwashers only when fully-loaded and to use the minimum of water for gardening and car washing . |
| 28 | Regulation prior to the FSA also tended to be fragmented , and largely on an institutional rather than functional basis — Insurance Company Act 1982 , Banking Act 1979 , Lloyds of London 1982 . |
| 29 | The Tudors also turned to the common law courts to enforce their Forest rights . |
| 30 | The Ciskei thus appeared on the point of disappearing as a separate state , amid speculation that other homelands might follow suit . |