Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
2 | A MOUNTAIN BIKE race for youngsters through woods came to a halt when when one rider spotted an unexpected hazard — a grenade . |
3 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
4 | The use of airpower by both belligerents , in addition to supporting their ground forces , was largely designed , first , to damage the enemy 's morale and , second , in retaliation for acts perpetrated by the other side . |
5 | However , although the level of demand for books fluctuated to a quite considerable extent throughout the day , Figures 10 and 11 also show that the mean delivery time for straightforward deliveries to readers of ‘ ordinary ’ items from the Main Building remained reasonably constant ( never rising above 17 minutes on weekdays , or 19 minutes on Saturdays ) , and that those variations which did occur bore no direct relationship to the level of demand , for some of the better mean delivery times were achieved a periods of high demand , and vice versa . |
6 | The time difference between pulses emitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver with or without the specimen in place can be measured to the order of 1 ns . |
7 | The Customs officer tilted his head to one side , observing her through eyes slitted against the smoke . |
8 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
9 | And while nerd , goon , clot and spongecake are all there , there is no room , not a jot for phrases bandied about every night in North-East pubs . |
10 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
11 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
12 | A dull thud of hooves resounded through the valley as the horses checked pace and descended from the pasture on to the tree-shadowed bridleway that slants down the hillside to the ford at its base . |
13 | Then hundreds of hooves crashed through the ford , spattering water bright into the mist . |
14 | Over there , generations of pharaohs slept in the tombs , cut deep into the red cliffs of the valley . |
15 | Just under 70% of authorities participated in the survey and nearly 400 data sheets were completed ( see Appendix 1 for sample details ) . |
16 | A fairly dispassionate analysis by Best ( 1980 ) indicates that the initiation of area bombing of cities resulted from the rejection of strategic in favour of indiscriminate bombing by those in charge of British Bomber Command , and the acceptance of their arguments by Churchill in August 1940 , when the Luftwaffe 's attacks on British airfields in the Battle of Britain was threatening to damage irretrievably the RAF 's powers of retaliation ( Best , 1980 , p. 276 ) . |
17 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
18 | Until the opening of the Swan Theatre in 1965 , the Worcester Society of Artists went under the name of The Society for the Advancement of Music and the Visual Arts , founded in 1947 . |
19 | Generations of artists travelled about the Mediterranean . |
20 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
21 | Great groans and gnashing of teeth emitted from the ranks . |
22 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
23 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
24 | Clouds shadowed densely those south-eastern parts , but the north and west were broadly lit by the sun , the higher hills gleamed in sunshine , and a flock of birds flew across the expanse of blue sky above Big Allen . |
25 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
26 | Lauterpacht concludes that the subsequent Resolution of the Assembly shows that the Assembly accepted the Court 's opinion , although a diversity of views persisted on the nature of the effect of the election . |
27 | A lot of prisoners slept on the floor because there were no beds or chairs . |
28 | A substantial number of prisoners participated in the riots ‘ at least in part , because of the conditions in which they were held and the way in which they were treated . |
29 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
30 | In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics . |