Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Australia remain one of the few countries to have taken part in every Summer Olympiad ( Greece , Switzerland and Great Britain are the others ) , they did not bring a cricket team to Paris . |
| 2 | Inflation reached levels beyond the control of the authorities , and mines and bakeries were among the few concerns continuing to operate , as workers did not arrive to work or raw materials were lacking . |
| 3 | One of the few companies to have had any serious success in selling generic products is Interactive Information Systems ( IIS ) who offer their customers the opportunity to lease the hardware needed to run the laser disc applications . |
| 4 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |
| 5 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 7 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 8 | Ted Deerhurst is one of the few Englishmen to have attempted big Waimea . |
| 9 | Lloyd describes her books as ‘ wonderful , moving stuff : she is one of the few authors to have made John Booth cry . ’ |
| 10 | As it is , he emerged as one of the few Democrats to have had a ‘ good war ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 12 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 13 | The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes . |
| 14 | By and large , despite the many attempts made to persuade Americans that FI is the top of motor sport , the Yanks remain unconvinced . |
| 15 | Mailed and heavily armed knights were an upper military class , with associated servants who undertook the many tasks needed to maintain both knight , horse and arms , before and after a conflict . |
| 16 | The many complications seem to preclude this even though the importance of success is as great as ever . |
| 17 | Some of the many changes include replacing existing lighting with low watt bulbs , using solar energy , introduction of low-flow shower heads , use of salt water in lavatories in some areas , replacement of disposable crockery with china and glassware and paper napkins with linen , promotion of draft rather than bottled beer , a purchasing policy favouring recyclable packaging . |
| 18 | This is a rather apt description of a bloom that is flat , ( compared to the high central point of the Hybrid Tea , for example ) and in which the many petals seem to curl and divide into four sections or quarters . |
| 19 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
| 20 | When the All Blacks managed to square the rubber at one-all when they won at Eden Park last year — after losing at Sydney — the All Blacks retained the Cup . |
| 21 | New Zealand rugby and the All Blacks were not quite protected by the armour-plating they wore in the two years after the 1987 World Cup triumph , but the Irish would pay testimony to the fact that the All Blacks had become a very hard bunch of men by the end of their tour . |
| 22 | But after the All Blacks had won the Second Test 59–6 Mains was rather more relaxed and in fact exuded some confidence about the prospects of his new-look team . |
| 23 | The All Blacks failed to field a specialist kicker . |
| 24 | Sydney : Continued activity in the banking sector helped the All Ordinaries index to close 7.4 points higher at 1,743.4 . |
| 25 | Sydney : Directionless trading brought little change , the All Ordinaries index ending just 0.7 ahead at 1,773.2 — but 37.4 points better on the week . |
| 26 | In his memoirs Acheson lays much stress on the impact of the House vote and sought to play down criticisms of his own speech of 12 January ; the latter criticisms had focused on Acheson having given encouragement to a North Korean attack by not making clear what the American reaction would be in these circumstances . |
| 27 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 28 | An increasing proportion of the latter occupations seek to live beyond the cities and to commute back to them . |
| 29 | The latter benefits have become increasingly important for top wage earners as a means of ‘ topping up ’ salaries . |
| 30 | Moreover , when one group of enterprises is given the privilege of retaining foreign exchange while others are obliged to apply for administrative allocations , which they know that they will frequently not receive , or to buy foreign exchange on the black market at a high price , the latter enterprises begin to think of all sorts of reasons why they too should receive part of the foreign exchange proceeds of exports . |