Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] wrought [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the government can not easily undo the damage wrought by the courts . |
| 2 | Assume , as ministers presumably believed , that it was fiscally essential to recover the deficit wrought by the recession . |
| 3 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 4 | Moreover , the destruction wrought by the blitz turned ‘ rebuilding Britain' from a vaguely desirable objective into a necessity . |
| 5 | The puddles in the hollows of the paving stones shimmered with a wash of colour as booted feet splashed through them , and officials of the court stood with long faces as they counted the extent of the destruction wrought by the rains . |
| 6 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 7 | That transformation comes about by the renewing of our individual minds , a change wrought from the inside , so that all that is weakest , pained and most fragmented within us becomes strengthened and renewed by the truth and love of God ( cf. |