Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope not , ’ Sophie said involuntarily , then flushed as she met the others ' surprised looks . |
| 2 | Maybe this records the Girls ' first sighting of the nudes ! |
| 3 | But the accusation of eating with the Gentiles has been heard before , for Luke records the Pharisees ' earlier complaint about Jesus , ‘ 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them ’ ' ( Luke 15:2 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it 's just that the pressure is off him now , ’ says Frank Whaley , the standout in Stone 's last box-office hit , Born On The Fourth Of July , and the actor who plays The Doors ' mild-mannered guitarist Robbie Krieger . |
| 5 | He mistook the scouts ' military-style uniform for Hitler Youth regalia and started shouting abuse at them . |
| 6 | The Gulf crisis complicated the budgetary position in that it made the negotiators ' original $50,000 million deficit reduction target appear unrealistically high , while increasing the threat of the economy being pushed into recession . |
| 7 | When bringing Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 into force on the Lord Chancellor also made the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practices Order . |
| 8 | Ken Viljoen , then 21 , made the Springboks ' only hundred in the Tests , and it is from his diary that the authors have recreated the events of 1931–32 , on and off the field . |
| 9 | Look down at the floor of the cab , and you 'll find a lever on the left hand side for using the Antares ' fuel-saving mode . |
| 10 | Well-travelled Stuart and Geraldine Worthington show considerable flair and sophistication as host and hostess and meals are veritable dinner parties , served by candlelight using the Worthingtons ' fine glass and silver ware . |
| 11 | ‘ The reality , however , is that his Government has given the bombers ' political wing the right to be in the council chamber . ’ |
| 12 | On the second day of the hearing when the reasons were given the parties ' legal representatives were there with the exception of the representative of the guardian ad litem . |
| 13 | Another worry is the fall in the Tokyo stock market which , given the banks ' large equity holdings , could put pressure on their capital ratios . |
| 14 | At first I thought I would die of hunger , as I could not eat the Yahoos ' dirty meat or the Houys ' grass and corn . |
| 15 | The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees . |
| 16 | You suspected that in the deterioration of the arrangements lay the series ' main hope of improvement . |
| 17 | The case proceeded before Hoffmann J. on the basis that , in accordance with the existing practice , the appellants were not entitled to see the administrators ' confidential statement which was before the judge . |
| 18 | Naas Botha , of all people , turned up at Rodney Parade last night to see the Barbarians ' annual autumn get-together . |
| 19 | If these figures held steady through the late polling hours , Mr Clinton would remain the Democrats ' nominee-presumptive for the presidential election in November with an overwhelming lead in convention delegates . |
| 20 | For the most part it concerned the speakers ' contemporary experience . |
| 21 | The virus destroys the cetaceans ' immune system , allowing other diseases to take hold . |
| 22 | The way in which the finance ministry is handling the banks ' bad-debt problems shows clearly how low a priority it attaches to fostering a competitive banking industry . |
| 23 | Events were to confirm the bishops ' implied intent to oppose the granting of divorce as a civil right . |
| 24 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 25 | It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities . |
| 26 | The civilian became the soldiers ' main target . |
| 27 | He became the contras ' military chief in the mid-1980s , but was ousted from the leadership in February 1990 [ see p. 37236 ] by a number of his fellow commanders who considered his background too tainted by human rights abuses and association with the corruption of the Somoza years for him to negotiate the eventual disbanding and resettlement of the contras [ for which see p. 37450 ] |
| 28 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 29 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 30 | Despite little apparent enthusiasm within the profession for such a development , the Council duly produced the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 and the Solicitors ' Indemnity ( Incorporated Practice ) Rules 1989 . |