Example sentences of "[art] [det] year [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 2 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 3 | ‘ In summary , we have made substantial progress at the half year and we expect this positive trend to be maintained . |
| 4 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 5 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 7 | However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised . |
| 8 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 9 | The same year that he was dubbed biggest flirt , Debbie Kauffman was voted her year 's best looking girl . |
| 10 | In the same year that he assumed his appointment , he stated bluntly : ‘ Let no one call Mary the mother of God . |
| 11 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 12 | she took that out in the , in the same year as we started the mortgage , she thought it was a good idea to take some extra saving . |
| 13 | Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education . |
| 14 | But as well as that Leonard has an even bigger incentive — to win an outdoor national title in the same year as he lifted the prestigious Irish Indoor Bowling Association crown at the Antrim Forum . |
| 15 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 16 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 17 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 18 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 19 | A most unforeseen occurrence cut short the Revd Dr William Dodd 's participation in this crusade when , a few years after he wrote his Account , he was charged with the capital offence of forgery . |
| 20 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 21 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 22 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 23 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 24 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 25 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 26 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 27 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 28 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 29 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 30 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |