Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 6–2- " That whilst under the Old Testament Instrumental Music was prescribed as part of the Temple service it was removed along with the other peculiarities of that service , under the new and more spiritual dispensation from which ritualistic and sensuous forms of worship were excluded ; that no Instrumental Music was prescribed or practised by Christ and his Apostles …
2 Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail .
3 Given the proliferation of multi-user operating systems just coming to market , SunSoft declined to talk percentages about how much of the Unix-on-Intel market it is aiming for with Solaris 2.0 , though a bullish Doug Miller , managing director of SunSoft UK , said sales of one million copies a year within two years would n't be an unreasonable goal .
4 The Feldwebel said he was going to the lavatory .
5 As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site .
6 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
7 The move came just 24 hours after the BBC announced it was axing Russ Abbot after audience ratings fell .
8 The DHSS reckoned someone was signing on for me while I was in prison .
9 The Westons retrieved what was left of their stock and headed for Bristol , where they sold what they could in the markets there .
10 The UK claims it is making its contribution to reducing emissions by imposing value added tax ( VAT ) on domestic fuel ; the government says the VAT measures make it less likely that a carbon tax will be needed to meet the target of stabilising CO2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 .
11 After the Paris meeting it was announced that about 85 per cent of this amount had been pledged , with donors promising $300,000,000 in debt relief and between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 in grants and loans , mainly to finance imports required for the economic recovery programme .
12 For the Spectrum owner who is either using or considering the purchase of a Microdrive system an interface unit may be unnecessary as the Microdrive interface itself is supplied with a serial interface which can be used to drive a printer .
13 The US said it was considering sanctions .
14 After going to work in the Gulf states she was offered a job with the princesses .
15 The FLNC had itself been denounced by rival movements , Resistenza , Accolta Naziunali Corsa ( ANC ) and the Union du Peuple Corse ( UPC ) , over its imposition of a " revolution tax " extorted from companies and wealthy individuals .
16 In item 3 of the April notes it was stated that the N.W. London Training Course was due to close in June of this year .
17 The USA let it be known that it was prepared to upgrade the status of these talks if North Korea submitted to nuclear inspection .
18 Meanwhile , the USA announces it is to explode a nuclear weapon in outer space during the tests in the Pacific next month .
19 " When I began the WNAS diet I was asked to cut out bread , biscuits and cakes as well as cutting down on dairy products and sugar , I found that I was sensitive to wheat .
20 Although the DES said it was considering this , it pointed out that there was a practical difficulty in the difference in salary scales .
21 The RUC say they are investigating a number of complaints .
22 Sadly , we were too far ahead of the game and , despite the title being ready for a May launch we were forced to hold off because the software was one step behind our hardware !
23 His big bang comes at the NEC show in 1992 with the 530bhp twin-supercharged Vantage — but as a Bentley fan he was beaming nonetheless .
24 An Oxford graduate he 's given his collection of photographs … his most cherished possession … to the University 's Pitt Rivers Musuem …
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