Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [coord] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was under the protection of the Estates and was also known as the Estates Theatre . |
| 2 | The poison preys upon the vitals and is only extinguished by death or , by as fatal a cure , the accomplishment of its own desires . |
| 3 | Available on or off the bone , the meat is usually from only the breasts of the birds and is lightly smoked , moist and quite delicious . |
| 4 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 5 | On Oct. 6 Klaus Kuron , 54 , who had worked since 1962 for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz — BfV ) , gave himself up to the authorities and was formally arrested shortly afterwards . |
| 6 | They collected their horses from the stables and were soon pounding their way back up the cobbled streets of Edinburgh to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 7 | God-like , Niall flings himself on to his adoring audience , sinks beneath the waves and is eventually restored to the stage in time for the anti-rap encore of ‘ Where 's Me Jumper ’ . |
| 8 | They are related to the break point of the waves and are sometimes referred to as break point bars . |
| 9 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 10 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 11 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 12 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |
| 13 | Many of our typical reactions in the presence of animals acknowledge this disparity in the language-games and is further fortified by what we say of them . |
| 14 | While at the Guggenheim Dr Barnett curated three documentary exhibitions on Kandinsky in the mid-1980s and was subsequently invited by Jean K. Benjamin , the co-author of the Kandinsky paintings catalogue raisonné ( with the late Dr Hans Konrad Roethel ) to embark on the watercolour volumes . |
| 15 | The system was written by one of the investigators and is already employed in a project being undertaken in the department for the Alvey Directorate . |
| 16 | Pentecost , the seventh Sunday after Easter , commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and is generally known as Whitsunday . |
| 17 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 18 | When the king died , he was thought to join the gods and was particularly associated with Re and Osiris . |
| 19 | They are then either killed by the ferrets or are subsequently dug out alive . |
| 20 | The Turks had deployed Egyptian soldiers in the hope of suppressing the Greeks and were simultaneously ignoring Russian interests in the Yugoslav and Romanian parts of their territory . |
| 21 | Another boot which I have been impressed with is the Cima Vango , which gives a wide fit across the toes and is now produced with a highly water-resistant Anfibio leather . |
| 22 | He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed . |
| 23 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 24 | Ken complained to her employers , and she was put on another round , but kept forgetting the orders and was presently let go . |
| 25 | The state ( otherwise often referred to as ‘ the regime ’ ) is the most inclusive of the terms and is usually understood to embrace all the main institutions of the political system , including the judiciary , police and the military ( see chapters 18 and 19 ) . |
| 26 | India is the home of this strongly aromatic plant where it is perennial , and where its history of use stretches back many thousands of years , It is regarded as sacred by the Hindus and was much used for disinfecting where malaria was present In the house . |
| 27 | When schoolteachers ask questions , they already know the answers and are simply checking to make sure you know them , too . |
| 28 | John , in his Gospel , seems to be following the date set by the Sadducees and is therefore saying that Passover day was on the Sabbath , the day after the crucifixion . |
| 29 | This book is geared more to those parents who take a major part of the responsibility for the games and are just using the entertainer to bring an additional dimension to the party . |
| 30 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |