Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a rare Brittany breed which is very similar to the Guernsey and possibly formed the ancestral stock . |
| 2 | But the writer could n't understand the aristocracy of the Vatican and constantly said so . |
| 3 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 4 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 5 | Moreover , the specific dictionaries were derived from smaller corpora than the GCD and therefore contained fewer entries : 5,545 ( on average ) compared to 12,475 in the GCD . |
| 6 | Although it took years rather than months , new general managers were appointed throughout the NHS and steadily reorganised their Health Authorities along general management lines . |
| 7 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 8 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 9 | During that time , as in the case of many other trappings of modern America , it has crossed the Atlantic and subsequently emerged in Britain . |
| 10 | The Bosnian Muslims so far have not come to the UN and instead pleaded their case with US officials . |
| 11 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 12 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 13 | Far more have stayed in the UK and simply sent their money into tax exile . |
| 14 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 15 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 16 | Arkells told us it sympathised with the Gammages but never had any intention of employing them . |
| 17 | He glanced uneasily in the direction of the Wolfwood and then said , ‘ What about Fenella ? ’ |
| 18 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 19 | But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end . |
| 20 | Some saw a tragic irony in this , since they suspected that de Gaulle was the only person " with the necessary authority to head a Europe that desperately wanted his leadership " |
| 21 | Well that no Geoff that definitely went in . |