Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensemble canzon soon ceased to lean on specific chansons and developed a style of its own , uncluttered by the ornamentation of the keyboard canzon or the contrapuntal science of the ricercar , a style which Praetorius characterized in his Syntagma as ‘ fresh , gay and quick ’ ( frisch , frölich und geschwinde ) . |
| 2 | He was an active Nonconformist of Baptist tendencies and employed a metropolitan missionary to preach indoors and out . |
| 3 | The development of textile manufacturing in the fifteenth century was not only one of the most fundamental economic changes of the period , but it also took men away from farming , created a market for the sale of agricultural products and gave an incentive to the producer to grow crops and raise stock beyond the levels required for his own consumption . |
| 4 | They ensured that few of the extra workers entering the market were trapped in small-scale operations and provided an elasticity of labour supply essential to very rapid accumulation in advanced sectors . |
| 5 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 6 | In the early 16th century Leonardo da Vinci toured the southern Alps for geological and botanical reasons and sketched the mountains . |
| 7 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |
| 8 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 9 | I saw the men playing chess in the hot Szechenyi baths and managed the journey back , but when I got home , people shook their heads . |
| 10 | She had not thought to have Ariel set her whole spine on a splint , so when , after three months , Sycorax raised herself and found her weak legs and took a few steps , her whole weight slung against Ariel on one side and Jack Elsey on the other , she was bent like a hoop and could only shuffle forward , raising her head , like a turtle poking out of its shell , to address anyone who was not actually on the floor below her . |
| 11 | But Modigliani saw the torment in the deep , hooded eyes and admired the power and fantasy of his work . |
| 12 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 13 | Various sources claim that before age 20 he had amongst other things , rediscovered and proved the law of quadratic reciprocity , discovered the double periodicity of elliptic functions , proved that every positive integer is a sum of 3 triangular numbers ( these are integers of the form unc where n ε Z+ ) , formulated the principle of least squares and conjectured the prime number theorem ( itself not proved until 1896 ) . |
| 14 | In the following two years most of the major unions , and the TUC itself , set up working parties and produced a range of discussion documents and policy statements . |
| 15 | The National Health Service ( NHS ) was always based on administrative units and had a non-elected board of control . |
| 16 | Some of them , like some Karavas , seized available economic opportunities and joined the new élite . |
| 17 | When Harold Wilson came to office , one Polaris submarine was cancelled , but the programme continued and Labour sought a consensus with other political parties and played an enormous role in NATO . |
| 18 | During its short period of administration , of less than ten months , it accomplished little of real importance — other than the passing of the Wheatley Housing Act which provided generous housing subsidies to both private and public builders and stimulated the council house building boom of the 1920s . |
| 19 | She 'd invented some errands and left the two men alone . |
| 20 | He equalised after 67 minutes and hit a last minute winner . |
| 21 | This initial discussion led to further meetings and opened the doors to the mutual swapping of information . |
| 22 | Mr Hull specialised in young contemporary British artists and had no training , experience or knowledge which would have enabled him to conclude from an examination of the pictures whether they were by Munter . |
| 23 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |
| 24 | One month later , it raised taxes on some products and put a four-month freeze on the prices of a further 42 per cent of products . |
| 25 | The Dementia Services Development Centre undertook a number of evaluative projects and continued an active publications programme . |
| 26 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 27 | I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience after a prolonged debate . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the British occupation , once it had begun , obsessed French statesmen and destroyed the chance of Anglo-French cooperation for twenty years . |
| 29 | It Germanised the few Polish street , town and place names , undertook propagandist ‘ research work ’ on historical subjects , supervised the Germanising of family names among those Poles who decided to take the plunge into German identity , took down Polish-language warning notices about venereal diseases from public toilets and instituted a system of bonuses for all teachers and civil servants prepared to move and settle in the eastern provinces . |
| 30 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |