Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 3 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 4 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |
| 5 | The defenders said they had no weapons to counter artillery . |
| 6 | But although the deputies said they clinched an agreement on the charter on Thursday morning it began to collapse when Lebanese leaders , including the Christian army commander , Michel Aoun , and the Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , criticised it . |
| 7 | ‘ The Germans said they shot down forty-one aircraft . |
| 8 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
| 9 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 10 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 11 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 12 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 13 | Talk of a pre-emptive Israeli strike against the missiles meant the Saudis felt they needed stronger air defences to guard the missiles … and so the British arms sellers moved in . |
| 14 | Another increasingly common way round the rules at the time was to engage in lease/lease-back arrangements , which became more and more complicated as the rules surrounding them tried to plug loop-holes , until they were finally outlawed in 1987 . |
| 15 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 16 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 17 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 18 | The authorities claim they entered to try and overthrow the government . |
| 19 | On Aug. 1 , a Central Bank began operation , but the authorities said they did not intend to introduce an independent currency to replace the South African Rand until 1992 . |
| 20 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | The evidence at the inquest had vindicated the struggle by the dead woman 's father , John Ward , to make the authorities accept she had been murdered . |
| 22 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 23 | Well I could n't just tell you honestly about that but I think the riveters decided who got what , you know . |
| 24 | In the immediate vicinity it linked Danzig with Stettin and Berlin via the rivers Notec and Oder and the Bromberg Canal ; via the river Nogat and the Frisches Haff it linked up with Elbing , Marienburg and Königsberg ; via the river Pregel and the river Dieme and the Kurisches Haff it reached out to Memel and Tilsit . |
| 25 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 26 | With all the bedrooms allocated she had nowhere to sleep . |
| 27 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 28 | But the fans said they planned to force Mr Sugar out by starving the club of ticket sales . |
| 29 | Billy Meredith and Herbert Burgess , the ‘ Mighty Atom ’ as the fans called him went to Manchester United along with Jimmy Bannister , Meredith 's partner in City 's attack . |
| 30 | When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed : a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions , a matching sheet of clear plastic , map-pins , chinagraph pencils in different colours . |