Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He dialled the number again but this time there was no dialling tone — only silence stretching through the air-waves . |
| 32 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 33 | After making first animal feed ( korm ) and only later cabbage soup ( shchi ) for the family , she may finally turn to the work that occupies the womenfolk from November until Lent — spinning flax from that blue-flowered , frail-leaved plant plucked by the root in handfuls in the August of 1921 . |
| 34 | This was because of past history when it was expected of the womenfolk , and the close family structure where others could be called on to assist if necessary . |
| 35 | They are wooden galleries beneath extended eaves in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century farmhouses , and were probably designed for storage purposes originally , but were undoubtedly used in summer by the womenfolk in their cottage industry of spinning the wool of the local Herdwick sheep with spinning wheel and distaff . |
| 36 | Does the milkman see the ghosts of warrior , yeoman , serf and villein — and all the womenfolk that kept the hamlet — as he drives his float down the 1,000 year old lane ? |
| 37 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 38 | The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins . |
| 39 | The womenfolk would no doubt be beside the wood stove , talking over the din of the roof as they did their needlework ; the men would be in the wool-shed , cleansing and grading the fleeces in time for the next lorry down to port . |
| 40 | " Nearly every convenience which the nature of the miners ' occupation demanded had to be furnished and maintained by the drudgery of the womenfolk . " |
| 41 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |
| 42 | Aunt Bridget entertained most of the womenfolk of the village to another sit-down feast , and Polruan challenged Polperro to a hurling match " to the country " , the result of which was a draw . |
| 43 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 44 | The womenfolk will all have to be pregnant all the time , of course , if the community is to survive . |
| 45 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 46 | Some of the womenfolk had turned away , unable to look . |
| 47 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 48 | All men were the same , of course : they all liked to hold the floor while the womenfolk listened respectfully , but then you 'd think a Turk would be more interesting . |
| 49 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 50 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 51 | Up on the scaffolding , the two rugged manly types whistled at the womenfolk . |
| 52 | THE PRUDES |
| 53 | However , prior to the Paras going in , The Prudes had proved a completely distinctive and revelatory experience . |
| 54 | The judgments in notorious cases which had decided that there could be unfettered administrative discretion were repudiated . |
| 55 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
| 56 | The principles of credit rating are immutable , they insist ; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others . |
| 57 | The judgments of God fall upon his enemies . |
| 58 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 59 | This , coupled with the notion of the magistrate as being responsible for enforcement of the judgments handed down by himself or his deputy , would surely suggest that he could give judgment for performance and enforce it specifically . |
| 60 | It is not necessary here to weigh the relative merits of successive waves of public sentiment , and it is too early to guess the judgments of history , but differences between American and British obscenity law can be assessed on their technical merits , and the consequences are significant . |