Example sentences of "attack on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1841 the movement for free trade in the country had centred on an attack on the Corn Laws . |
| 2 | Nor is it unreasonable to assume that given a sufficient respite they hoped that Britain 's own nuclear force might become strong enough to act as a deterrent to a Soviet attack on the home islands . |
| 3 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 4 | What lay behind Eadwine 's assault on the kingdom of Gwynedd is never made clear , but Aethelfrith had campaigned as far afield as Chester against the men of Powys and the Anglian attack on the north Britons was a continuing process . |
| 5 | The campaign involved a two-pronged attack on the mining companies . |
| 6 | A speculative report in the daily Critica said Major Moises Giroldi , the head of the elite Urraca battalion who spearheaded the coup attempt , had been killed in the dawn attack on the Defence Forces Headquarters . |
| 7 | Brian Davies , 64 , who had been angry at his treatment on the Kilroy TV discussion show , was also convicted of threatening a similar attack on the Broadcasting Complaints Commission . |
| 8 | I was thus thrilled to read , in the first chapters of Richard Brennan 's book , an argued attack on the cult beliefs , unproven theories , ignorant superstitions and mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience that so many people now prefer to the hard work involved in becoming technologically literate . |
| 9 | He passed me by , probably more concerned about his own men of 6 Commando and the large number of casualties inflicted on the Commandos during the attack on the enemy positions in the village just along the road . |
| 10 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 11 | His speech was also seen as a veiled attack on the free-market policies of Premier John Major . |
| 12 | Security and nationalist sources discount the suggestion of an American or other foreign national acting as a mercenary paid by the IRA for each fatal attack on the security forces . |
| 13 | The most telling evidence of all that Sunday trading is a costly mistake , for which the whole nation is paying a heavy price , is not the new year phoney price war by the supermarket chains but their savage attack on the living standards of the employees . |
| 14 | Thus , the measures announced in Mr Lamont 's budget , of which the VAT imposition on domestic fuel is one of many , amount to yet another attack on the living standards of ordinary people of not only Scotland , but also for the rest of the UK . |