Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 2 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 3 | Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book . |
| 4 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 5 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 6 | Cardiff attacked gamely in the final quarter and scored a late try through Jeffreys . |
| 7 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 8 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 9 | These were the fighting heroes of their day , whose exploits lived long in the popular imagination . |
| 10 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 11 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 12 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 13 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 14 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 15 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 16 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 17 | Sick leave will be granted under the terms laid down in the Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code . |
| 18 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 19 | However , the present author is one of those who has doubts as to how far this possibility would be used : the protocol on Social policy refers to continuing ‘ along the path laid down in the 1989 Social Charter ’ ( also signed by eleven Member States ) . |
| 20 | We suggest that the procedure laid down in the Environmental Protection Act for registers under parts I and VI of the Act could be used in this situation . |
| 21 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 22 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 23 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 24 | There is not the space here for a detailed examination of the regime laid down in the 1981 Act and the Education ( Special Educational Needs ) Regulations 1983 , as amended . |
| 25 | ‘ Friends of Killynure ’ fearing that , Killynure House will be closed despite claims that the present home subscribes fully to the criteria laid down in the consultative document for the provision of residential care for elderly people , now appeal to the fast growing community of Carryduff and surrounding areas to support the fight for the retention of the home by signing a petition against closure . |
| 26 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 27 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 28 | When it comes to crime and punishment , the penalties laid down in the Old Testament for offences against the person are more severe than for offences against property . |
| 29 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |
| 30 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |