Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experts concluded that of the diamonds which were not recovered , some could have disintegrated and others would have become embedded in molten metal . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , when one of the climbers became stuck in the ‘ MOUNTAINEERING ’ section the rest had to rescue him and the search was abandoned . |
| 3 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 4 | So the Scouts sat deep in that cellar amidst the jumbled dusty lava-carved genealogy of the Sagramosos . |
| 5 | Instead , she writes of those ordinary people who make the miracle , and often suffer in the process : the sarariman painfully climbing the corporate ladder ; the schoolchildren taught to prefer homework to sleep ; the housewives left alone with their drudgery . |
| 6 | The discussions got stuck on the question whether agreements reached at these meetings should remain purely informal or should be translated into Euro-directives . |
| 7 | Scotland have offered some assistance in the Canadians ' injury crisis , physiotherapist Colin Elliot will be available to them , but it seems the Canadians stopped short of asking Scotland whether they could borrow their spare player — Stark — for the Fiji tournament , for which Canadian captain Julian Loveday has joined David Lougheed as an invalid . |
| 8 | Moreover the moles dug hundreds of tunnels under their line of march . |
| 9 | Control in such instances was facilitated by the statute containing criteria which the courts felt capable of construing . |
| 10 | In typical Delhi fashion the two traditions merged , and the hijras became subject to a very Indian compromise . |
| 11 | Fardine waved his arms and the birds rose high into the air ; at the cry of ‘ Aao ! |
| 12 | You will probably be aware already that the houses numbered 7 to 16 in Woodhall Terrace have been put into Band G for the purpose of assessing the Council Tax , and that for Edinburgh District this means a tax of £1,217 per year — a very big increase on a two-person poll tax for 1992 . |
| 13 | Flood prevention work has just been completed , and the houses stayed dry through the wettest October on record . |
| 14 | The little clearing in the heart of the woods looked different at night . |
| 15 | After the Dubai 1986 Olympics when England were unlucky not to win against a full-strength USSR , it seemed that gold would be there once the Russians had another off day . |
| 16 | During all this time Blake was passing back to Moscow full details of his work , including Operation Gold , so the Russians knew all about the plan two years before the tunnel was actually finished . |
| 17 | The groups contained some of the most talented , creative , experienced and successful people in UK marketing and public relations . |
| 18 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 19 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 20 | Early in 1909 she was imprisoned in Holloway , but rapidly released when the authorities became aware of her powerful connections . |
| 21 | The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee . |
| 22 | The split in the RSDLP ( into the Bolshevik majority and Menshevik minority ) meant that some of the Mensheviks became influential among these parties ( particularly in the Georgian and Jewish parties ) . |
| 23 | The factory 's built over a quarry ; the builders used thousands of tons of in-fill . |
| 24 | The employers saw this as an opportunity to ensure the complete destruction of trade unionism and , between 1877 and 1922 , set out to achieve this aim . |
| 25 | The animals seemed healthy during the experiment . |
| 26 | By the late 19th century many northern populations were decimated ; the survivors lived half-starved in squalor and disease , unable to continue their traditional lifestyles but without viable alternatives . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the schools remained conscious of their semi-independent-past , of the closeness of their cultural alliance with the Public Schools , and ( in consequence ) attentive to traditional and ceremonious standards and to the preservation of an austerely academic curriculum . |
| 28 | The schools appeared unaware of the county inservice programme run in support of the Major Project , and were , presumably , not advised of these conferences . |
| 29 | We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path . |
| 30 | The eyes had sunken in and the skull was showing through the thinning hair of the pate . |