Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the desper ate days of July , the wounded lingered in the foul , dark , excrement-ridden vaults of Fort Souville for over six days before they could be evacuated . |
| 2 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 3 | Often this was reflected in the village church , where the old sat in the best seats and the young at the back . |
| 4 | Only the proprietor of the six left in the room had a clear idea of what the concept meant . |
| 5 | The observer must ensure that the six named in the sample can be identified . |
| 6 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |
| 7 | The 100 came in the 28th over , and for those who wondered how England could be doing so well after Pakistan 's moderate success , the answer lay as much in England 's two disciplined straight bats as in the departed cloud cover . |
| 8 | The second came in the 1990 tax act . |
| 9 | The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down . |
| 10 | But the inevitable happened in the 76th minute . |
| 11 | The only expertise available in connection with special needs in the 1940s resided in the divisional educational psychologist and , as there were over 80 schools in division one of the LCC , we neither expected nor received much help from that source . |
| 12 | In 1870 the ninety serving in the French foreign ministry , for example , were dwarfed by the 1,500 employed in the ministry of finance , the largest of all French central government departments . |
| 13 | Ralf the pedlar stood in the centre of the drawbridge , a pleased smile stretching from ear to ear . |
| 14 | A year after the MX-5 arrived in the UK , Mazda had another niche car to present — the V6 engined but ( unexpectedly ) modestly powered MX-3 . |
| 15 | Smith denies that a significantly new ‘ problem ’ of poverty among the elderly emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | Had not the latter fought in the mining camps from which they hailed , to reduce the number of enforced religious holidays which so depleted their incomes ? |
| 17 | In the same way , as the enormous empire of Alexander the Great grew in the wake of conquests made during his short reign ( 336–323 BC ) , many mints were set up , all using the same designs . |
| 18 | The sixth came in the 74th minute with Rush pouncing to punish Christophi again after he had failed to hold another Jamie Redknapp shot . |
| 19 | Some composers use series which may contain more or fewer notes than the twelve contained in the total-chromatic , but this is uncommon , and the usage can be ignored . |
| 20 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | The first lay in the fact that letters to RTD from educated people in urban areas far outnumbered those received from the less well-educated . |
| 22 | The first exploded in the chamber of horrors at Tussauds in Baker Street , central London , just after 1am yesterday . |
| 23 | There are five articles on the Valadier family workshop , all stimulated by the recent spectacular discoveries of drawings and documents — many of the former included in the memorable exhibition mounted by the Artemis group in 1991 . |
| 24 | There were cross-currents ; for instance , books banned in the 1880s reappeared in the 1890s , but social purity remained vigorous through the 1890s and 1900s , particularly through voluntary organisations , such as local vigilance committees , public morality organisations and bodies like the Salvation Army , bringing closure orders against brothels , hunting out displays of vice , prosecuting obscene books , and promoting wholesome literature . |
| 25 | When Scholes proposes ‘ studying texts ’ he invokes the terminology of semiotics , but he is , in effect , working in a tradition of rhetorical analysis that has always been an element in institutional English study , and which in the 1930s resulted in the work of Leavis and Thompson and other Scrutineers on contemporary culture and its artefacts . |
| 26 | Skilfully detailed miniature landscapes , including working trains of the 1930s set in the wilds of Dartmoor and farms and cottages grouped in a typical village from the Vale of White Horse . |
| 27 | Mortality rates at this and similar institutions were astonishingly high : only 4,400 of the 15,000 admitted in the first four years lived to adolescence . |
| 28 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 29 | The most appropriate approach might comprise of a combination of the two used in the early stages of design , with an optimization option being employed when the design possibilities have been explored and the parameters , constraints and objectives are no longer likely to change . |
| 30 | The three men assigned to the inflatable waited in the cockpit . |