Example sentences of "attack on [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 Thus his Declaration of Reasons for Invading focused on the violations of the Test Act , the creation of the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , the suspension of the Bishop of London , the affair of Magdalen College , the dispensing and suspending powers , and the attack on the corporations in 1687 – 8 .
2 ‘ There has been a number of close calls this year like the recent UFF attack on the bookmakers in North Belfast , ’ said a detective .
3 One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration .
4 Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) on March 18 cited reports that Sudanese troops had been gathering , in preparation for an attack on the rebels in Sudan , at the town of Gambella , on the Ethiopian side of the border .
5 Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia .
6 It was a multi-pronged attack on the Palestinians in Lebanon .
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