Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if the defence took militant forms , its boundaries were defined by extant relations of production . |
| 2 | Beldam LJ reviewed the authorities and stated that deciding whether the defence applied involved answering two questions . |
| 3 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 4 | The majority received 100 mg over a period of 3 hours . |
| 5 | That same Thursday the majority received another setback . |
| 6 | So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing . |
| 7 | The majority saw little future for college-based sandwich courses , let alone the assessment of the industrial part . |
| 8 | The majority contained inadequate amounts of alcohol and dried fruit and some had artificial flavourings or were cloyingly sweet . |
| 9 | The apprentice varied three years up to , some of them were five . |
| 10 | The stand contained 4,100 seats , installed at a cost of 2d each , and incorporated the latest in spectator comfort . |
| 11 | The remainder comprised three patients with iron deficiency , one with carcinomatosis , two with oral amphthous ulceration , two normal subjects considered to have been incorrectly diagnosed with gluten sensitivity as children , one patient with mild microscopic colitis , one patient with giardiasis , and two seemingly normal relatives of patients with coeliac disease . |
| 12 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 13 | Last week the House of Commons select committee on the ombudsman heard another story of neglect in the NHS . |
| 14 | Though announcement of the link allowed short-term interest rates to fall by a percentage point to 11.4% , and pushed Swedish share prices up 3.5% in a day , it caused chaos in the lucrative Stockholm business of ‘ basket arbitrage ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters . |
| 16 | The Prince had high hopes on that July day too . |
| 17 | The Duke had powerful artillery and trained soldiers ; the Prince had lesser firepower and undisciplined goodwill . |
| 18 | Rebecque spoke in English because the Prince preferred that language . |
| 19 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 20 | The prince arrived 15 minutes late but during his hour-long visit to a 60th anniversary reception for the BBC , he made no reference to the news of his marriage split . |
| 21 | At the Japanese forum in November , the prince urged local companies to contribute towards making international business ‘ world friendly ’ , a message regarded by some commentators as a veiled attack on Japanese corporations ' environmental record . |
| 22 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 23 | Having swept across the Bahamas on Aug. 23 , the hurricane ravaged southern Florida in the early hours of Aug. 24 before proceeding westwards across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 24 | Trent might have laughed had he not been thrown against the motor cycle as the hurricane drove Golden Girl aground . |
| 25 | They jogged on through the crowd of frightened people leaving the area , while the wizard took great mouthfuls of cool dawn air . |
| 26 | I am happy to say that the change brought immediate results . |
| 27 | Inevitably the change caused widespread dismay , and there were riotous demands to ‘ Give us back our 11 days ’ from people who thought they were losing wages or even having their lives shortened . |
| 28 | The housebreaker freed one arm , and grasped his pistol … he beat it twice , with all the force he could summon , upon the upturned face that almost touched his own . ’ |
| 29 | One wonders if the Captain-General had any idea of the utter impossibility of navigating at 75°S , for on this longitudinal track his ships would be stuck fast in the thick ice-of the Weddell Sea , hemmed in by the unimagined continent and unendurable cold of the Antarctic . |
| 30 | Many a report has been unsuccessful , not because it was badly written , but because the writer visualised one type of reader , whereas , in the end , the report ended up in front of someone entirely different . |