Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cardiff attacked gamely in the final quarter and scored a late try through Jeffreys . |
| 5 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 6 | These were the fighting heroes of their day , whose exploits lived long in the popular imagination . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sick leave will be granted under the terms laid down in the Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | An exclusion clause , which purports to exclude or limit liability under these terms , is subject to the rules already outlined in this chapter , including the rules laid down in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 22 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 23 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 24 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 25 | Queens and princesses , officials and servants , all lived together in the great sanctuary chamber . |
| 26 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 27 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 28 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 29 | They arose only in the short uneasy period passed between land and water . |
| 30 | A survey by US federal scientists has recorded " total failure " to reproduce among colonies of murres — diving birds found widely in the northern Pacific . |