Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 2 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 3 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 4 | Please include SCIAF partners in Africa , Asia and Latin America in the prayers of intercession throughout Lent . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's little Trevor in the wars again — what 's he up to now ? ’ |
| 6 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 7 | Floods in late December in the states of Minas Gerais , Bahia , Pará , Pernambuco and Goiás left 200,000 people homeless . |
| 8 | To the polite scepticism of orthodox American archaeologists , the expedition 's leaders are interpreting some of the hieroglyphs as containing ancient Hebrew letters and symbols which refer to Ophir , or Beth-Horon , the gold source of ancient Palestine in the times of King Solomon . |
| 9 | This was followed by the Company Commander of B Company being asked to organise a barbecue around the swimming pool ( the legacy of a former Commanding Officer who had discovered an under-used JCB in the grounds of the base ) . |
| 10 | Countless were the true heroes of Verdun , fighting small Thermopylaes in the shell-holes , who remained unsung and undecorated because no one witnessed their deeds . |
| 11 | In paying tribute to those excellent voluntary organisations whom the Government have grant-aided to help vulnerable groups in Iraq , does not my right hon. Friend the Minister agree that Saddam Hussein has ensured the continuing torment and lack of help for his people , particularly for the southern Shias in the marshes ? |
| 12 | It is still not generally appreciated just how serious a threat to the peace of Europe was posed by the situation developing in north-east Italy and southern Austria in the days immediately following the end of the European war in 1945 . |
| 13 | The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh . |
| 14 | The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s . |
| 15 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 16 | Third seeds are Western Samoa , whose preparations for Murrayfield include a special training camp in Auckland , and if the draw goes according to plan Scotland will face fourth-seeded Fiji in the semis . |