Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Defending solicitor Mr. Blundell asked the magistrates to consider whether Mr. Thurgood would have played the part of peacemaker and then gone out and attacked the soldiers ' car . |
2 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
3 | Many Suffolk horsemen , when occasionally they took their horses to Ipswich market , rose very early in the morning — three o'clock , or even earlier — to put the finishing touches to harness they had perhaps oiled the night before , and to paint the horses ' hoofs with harness oil to make them look smart . |
4 | The woodcuts are only a few inches square , and defy the artists ' desire for detail and extravagance . |
5 | The expense the school incurred in educating and maintaining the taxpayers ' sons did not add to the school 's general costs but was equal to the additional cost involved in so doing — such as meals and laundry . |
6 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
7 | Mhoira Robertson was always ambitious and passed the sergeants ' examination at 24 . |
8 | She led a battle to keep local nursery schools open ( and won ) , campaigned for a skateboarding bowl for neighbourhood children ( now up for a community award ) and produced a Parents ' Guide to Oxford Pubs . |
9 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
10 | To receive and consider the Directors ' Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 27th March 1993 . |
11 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
12 | Assistant director Bill Wilson and technical accountant Raymond Wood did some behind-the-scenes calculations and found the consultants ' conclusions wanting . |
13 | This person will have to ensure that all members of the panel have seen and considered the candidates ' original application forms and formulated questions arising from it . |
14 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
15 | The office is responsible for lobbying the European institutions and keeping the solicitors ' profession at home informed of EC developments . |
16 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
17 | There are no external examinations — assessment is internal , designed to guidelines provided by SCOTVEC , and measures the candidates ' achievement in the Outcomes . |
18 | and let the snowflakes ' sacrament |
19 | Instead , it seems , we have relied all too heavily on agency definitions and ignored the users ' perspective . |
20 | This is an appeal from a judgment dated 30 November 1989 of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) allowing an appeal from a judgment of Hull J. dated 14 November 1988 of the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) awarding the plaintiff , Mr. Kelly , damages in the sum of $200,000 , declaring that the defendants , a firm of estate agents trading as Cooper Associates , were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , Caliban , and dismissing the defendants ' counterclaim for such commission . |
21 | A series of interviews , simulation procedures , and concept mapping exercises are to be used to elicit and monitor the students ' knowledge . |
22 | The black leather bits that cover the toes and heels absorb heat and bake the soldiers ' feet . |
23 | The Ministry of Economic Warfare hung on the periphery and stirred the witches ' brew . |
24 | Then we lit the candles and read the Visitors ' Book through from 1960 onwards . |
25 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
26 | Created by John way back in 1910 , it began with the Girls grouped in sets of four dressed as ponies and imitating the animals ' movements . |
27 | The additional money that we 're looking for this year er a substantial amount of this will go to funding of the rent for the new premises for the c the Citizens ' Advice Bureau and I do n't propose to stand here and defend the Citizens ' Advice Bureau because it does n't need it , I hope . |
28 | ‘ I had a very fair hearing and accept the stewards ' decision . |
29 | Instead of fighting each other and laying waste Europe , crusading-spirited warriors now had licence to fight Moslems and plunder the infidels ' land . |
30 | The role of the professional is to listen and understand the parents ' views , aims , and expectations and to provide the parents with a range of suitable options and the necessary information from which to select . |