Example sentences of "in [art] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 2 | ‘ Bill Mishkin , ’ says Bill Saltman , ‘ is a simple Russian boy from way out in the sticks who went through law school and inherited a couple of million from his uncle in the garment trade and could n't add two and two together and get more than four . ’ |
| 3 | You can read about how he survived in the letters he wrote to his wife , published here by Faber as Letters To Olga . |
| 4 | The Germans were the bombs which smashed the towns and villages of England or they were the words in the newspapers which told of defeat . |
| 5 | But you did look you did look truly awful in that picture that appeared in the newspapers you looked as if |
| 6 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 7 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |
| 8 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 9 | In the mornings she walked in the formal garden . |
| 10 | But in the towns they ran on the streets , just like other trams . |
| 11 | In some ways , the instability of national politics was mirrored in the resignations which occurred in the M. C. R. Executive . |
| 12 | The ECOWAS Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , the 10,000 strong Nigerian-led peacekeeping force , seemed to be succeeding in holding the factions in the areas they occupied in November . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , but he did in the annuals I got for Christmas . |
| 14 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |
| 15 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly the restoration of gold coinage became a prime aim of rulers in the states which emerged during the early middle ages on the ruins of the Roman Empire . |
| 17 | He became a vice-president of the Newcomen Society for the study of the history of engineering and technology ; he became a member of the Science Museum advisory council , and took an active part in the discussions which resulted in the establishment of the Railway Museum in York ; the National Trust made him a member of its properties committee , to advise on industrial archaeology ; and he was appointed chairman of the Council for British Archaeology research committee on industrial archaeology . |
| 18 | It may at least be surmised that such a role was not envisaged for the CNAA by university representatives in the discussions which led to its being proposed and established' . |
| 19 | Dr. Clarke had himself been a surveyor in the town in 1765 : he also cultivated the art of perspective drawing , examples of which can be seen in the plans he drew for Whitaker 's History of Manchester of 1765 and 1771 . |
| 20 | After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green . |
| 21 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 22 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 23 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 24 | Seven people were injured in the crashes which happened during the rush hour on the northbound carriageway at the Fortwilliam junction . |
| 25 | None the less , their ability to achieve rapid movements not only in battle but , more important , before it , and to act in unison with the men-at-arms ( who were also mounted ) made them into ‘ by far the most important element in the armies which fought in France ’ . |
| 26 | Temperamental , moody , and irascible , he appeared to many of his critics to be culpably inconsistent in the attitudes he took to some of the contentious issues of his day . |
| 27 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |
| 28 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 29 | Now , in the conditions which prevailed in the church at Kidderminster he no doubt felt it was time to change . |
| 30 | She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair . |