Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evangelical antislavery imperative in the 1820s formed a conjunction with a reaction against West Indian treatment of nonconformist missionaries and powerful leadership in antislavery activism by major figures of dissent : Jabez Bunting and Richard Watson of the Wesleyans , Joseph Ivimey of the Baptists , the Congregationalists Henry Waymouth and John Angell James . |
| 2 | On the political left a journal like Marxism Today claims that there has been an underlying and probably permanent shift to anti-socialist values . |
| 3 | But the Spanish paid a price in the peace settlement for entering the war on the French side . |
| 4 | The end of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth brought a time of confusion and revised Swiss administration in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , and in 1803 , St Gallen 's monastery was secularised along with others in Switzerland , the new canton of St Gallen was formed , and the city became its capital . |
| 5 | The 80s brought a number of hard ascents but all were capped in difficulty and seriousness by Pete Whillance 's Agrippa . |
| 6 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 7 | His prospects were obviously improved by the French navy 's success at Beachy Head in 1690 , and suffered a setback when the English won a battle off La Hogue in 1692 . |
| 8 | In addition to the major Sixmilewater Fault , the seismic revealed a number of smaller faults that break the Permo-Triassic sequence into a series of tilted blocks . |
| 9 | He and Robert had in any case disappeared to drink and play cards ( the express had a gaming saloon ) soon after dinner . |
| 10 | The Americans got their ore , but the British received a pittance of information in return . |
| 11 | On 21 February 1944 , the British sent a draft agenda of their thinking on civil aviation to the State Department . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was hardly surprising that the British had a near-monopoly on both cable technology and signal equipment techniques . |
| 13 | The British expressed a fear of the Muslims since the imperial dynasty which they had replaced had been Muslim . |
| 14 | The British introduced a system of taxation in Africa which forced the Africans to work for their colonizers simply to pay their taxes . |
| 15 | Now the British built a steam cathedral on a piece of land which had become a sort of palimpsest of indigenous and alien power . |
| 16 | The British found a role as recent emancipators in advising others , though they had to acknowledge the continued participation of British capital and goods in the slave trade and the possession of slaves by British functionaries abroad . |
| 17 | Again unfortunately for Scheer , the British possessed a copy of Germany 's naval code and were aware , minute by minute , of her ships ' movements . |
| 18 | Nothing , however , had been done to implement the proposals when , in March 1778 , the French signed a treaty of friendship with the Americans . |
| 19 | ‘ The French had a revolution once , ’ Sabine pointed out mildly . |
| 20 | The French imposed a protectorate at the beginning of this century ; in the 1940s and fifties Hassans father , King Muhammad V , which was won in 1956 . |
| 21 | The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me . |
| 22 | The struggles in the West Indies in the 1690s were probably less devastating than those of the 1660s , and the French missed a chance to press home an attack on Jamaica when it was at its most vulnerable , just after the great earthquake of 1692 had destroyed the original capital of Port Royal . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the French performed a volte-face worthy of their government 's foreign policy habits , and gave the cardiac arrest generation nouvelle cuisine , or cuisine minceur and then cuisine naturelle , as it quickly became when the first fanatical asceticism mellowed . |
| 24 | The French proposed a programme based on a British first-stage and a French ( Coralie ) second-stage rocket . |
| 25 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 27 | In Lonsdale 's view , the 1790s saw a reaction against women writers . |
| 28 | Alas , the great mass of weight over the tail also meant that , at high speed on damp surfaces , the 911 had a habit of disappearing off roads , backside first . |
| 29 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 30 | In Francis [ 1982 ] Crim LR 363 , the accused had a stick with him when he demanded entry into a house , but not when he was stealing from a room . |