Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [coord] was [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 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The black liquid contains the spores and was once used as a cheap substitute for Indian ink . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the king died , he was thought to join the gods and was particularly associated with Re and Osiris . |
| 8 | He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed . |
| 9 | Ken complained to her employers , and she was put on another round , but kept forgetting the orders and was presently let go . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I called the police and was then told I was not required to work there any longer . |
| 12 | A sixty-foot tree , a gift from the people of Stockholm in recognition of the hospitality shown to Swedish seamen during the war , arrived at the Docks and was ceremoniously welcomed by the Lord Mayor . |
| 13 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 14 | As well as admiring a variety of modern and more traditional pieces , the Queen met many of the sculptors and was also introduced to some of the people who had worked behind the scenes to make it all happen . |
| 15 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 16 | The national side were not alone at the fort , which nestles high in the hills and was partially enshrouded in mist yesterday . |
| 17 | Above the sink , ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling . |
| 18 | Discs are incapable of nastiness , this ‘ Welcome To The Beautiful South ’ cover upset the censors and was later banned |