Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 2 | Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate . |
| 3 | He read the neatly typed letter … |
| 4 | Only in June 1989 , when the highest authority of the land became the newly elected Congress of People 's Deputies of the USSR and when the draft of the new law on the press provided for the abolition of censorship , did Novy Mir publish Medvedev 's story for the benefit of its 1,600,000 subscribers . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly this became the least selling Smiths record of them all . |
| 6 | In 1990 Hawke asked the newly created Resources Assessment Commission to adjudicate on the issue ; the report , filed in 1991 , recommended that mining should not be prohibited on environmental grounds , but it pointed out that the Hill was sacred to an Aboriginal group , the Jawoyn people . |
| 7 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 8 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 9 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 10 | Bob Tanner 's dark eyes were stern beneath the thick beetle brows that complemented the precisely cut head of black hair that was starting to silver at the temples . |
| 11 | This year 's keynote speaker is Robert Venturi , who designed the recently opened Seattle Art Museum . |
| 12 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 13 | Central supervision of the Poor Law operated both through the regional inspectorate who supervised the locally elected administrators , the Boards of Guardians of each Poor Law Union , and submitted annual reports to the LGB , and also through circulars or memoranda to the Boards of Guardians . |
| 14 | It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees . |
| 15 | For example , suppose the syntactic component used the pair-wise parsing process mentioned above to decide between different lexical hypotheses . |
| 16 | While Beth regarded the beautifully laid table , Cissie stood opposite , her big blue eyes proud and smiling . |
| 17 | There was both a majority and a minority report , and the latter provided a well argued critique of the system . |
| 18 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 19 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 20 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 21 | The mass of silver hair framed a perfectly formed face , though the lips seemed thinner , the eyes above the high cheek bones cold and unsmiling . |
| 22 | His finger found a precisely outlined section delineated in red marker . |
| 23 | As Shannon looked up she caught a coldly calculating glint in the actress 's green eyes , but it was gone before Marianne turned to Dane , her beautifully shaped mouth pouting prettily . |
| 24 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 25 | At the height of abolitionist and emancipationist campaigns this involved a mutually reinforcing relationship between ‘ agitation ’ and ‘ influence ’ , popular mobilisation and political manoeuvre , an extra-parliamentary movement and parliamentary initiative and tactics . |
| 26 | Initially to examine the effects of differentiation on the relative levels of ATF1 and CREB we used a previously described assay in which CREB and ATF1 present in heat denatured nuclear extracts are 32 P-labelled using protein kinase A and immunoprecipitated ( figure 2B ) . |
| 27 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 28 | In a limited number of patients , however , who were treated continuously with omeprazole , we found an appreciably reduced extent of gastric metaplasia . |
| 29 | A firm in Maidenhead designed an hydraulically operated bar stool with a large base housing a compressed air tank . |
| 30 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |