Example sentences of "[that] marked [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
2 | IT WAS Richard Nixon who said that wilderness preservation was a sign of the self-restraint that marked a mature society . |
3 | The only sour note was the electrified fence that marked the forbidden border zone . |
4 | I hesitated , and as I did so a big stone that marked the outer edge of the track began to move . |
5 | There was the vague suggestion of orange light beyond the high wall that marked the rear boundary of Amelia 's property ; the streetlamps were already on . |
6 | Attempts to reform the education service in the 1930s had been frustrated by financial stringencies ( of the kind , for example , that led to the substitution of special for free places in secondary schools ) , by the conservative indifference towards education that marked the National Governments of the decade , and , perhaps most decisively , by the persistence of religious difficulties . |
7 | Beyond the hedge of red-leaved crotons that marked the uphill boundary of Nana 's yard stood a dilapidated shack that was unoccupied , the property of a woman in one of the lower villages who owned several plots in the valley . |