Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Sotheby 's will be pinning their hopes on the decorative arts market which is performing well in Europe and the States and accounted for 56% of business last year compared to 38% in 1990 .
32 Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife
33 While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it .
34 Radio Monte Carlo reported on April 8 that the Damascus-based " rejectionist " Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) had recently outlined a " surprising " new initiative stressing the importance of adherence to the leadership of the PLO and calling for " a review of the past phase in order to agree on a political and organizational action plan " .
35 On 14 October , Cradock left the Falklands and steamed around Cape Horn to intercept the Germans .
36 We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match .
37 Mr Albion Small , former manager of the Eldon Gardens complex in Newcastle , has been appointed manager of the Cornmill and said on Wednesday he was confident the centre would weather the current recession and attract more shoppers to Darlington , bringing more business to other shops and offices in the town centre .
38 legal firms whose clerks are at the harmonic meeting at the Magpie and Stump to which Lowton introduces Pickwick .
39 Situated at the head of the Cuckmere valley , on an impressive site in the heart of the Weald and protected by the great bend of the Cuckmere River , this site was chosen for an Augustinian priory in the 13th century and became part of the religious life of the time .
40 In 1915 , he enlisted in the RFC and served for the remainder of World War One firstly as a gunner then as a pilot .
41 Voice of Vietnam radio announced on March 12 that Bui Tin had been expelled from the CPV and dismissed from his post as deputy editor-in-chief of the party daily Nhan Dan .
42 On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both .
43 He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us .
44 On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky , the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport , to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine .
45 I wish to run up to the window of the Mercedes and shout at the general sitting there : Wake up , you fat bastard , ca n't you see how you look parading in this cemetery , like some overstuffed SS officer in Birkenau ?
46 They returned to the Mercedes and refuelled before joining the traffic flow .
47 It was a strangely anomic creature who strode up to the door of the house of the Frankensteins and rapped for admittance .
48 The conference started a day earlier this time with the AGM commencing on the Friday and finishing on Saturday morning .
49 Fighting around Monrovia intensified between the NPFL and ECOMOG in the ensuing 48 hours .
50 ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday .
51 So are the members of the Shropshire TEC board , who also run demanding businesses yet give much time to developing the TEC and working towards what it is trying to achieve , especially for young people in Shropshire .
52 Victorians disregarded , or perhaps frequented , child prostitutes in the Strand until re-sensitised to the evil by a reformist campaign .
53 They were in Hennessey 's in the Strand and tucked into a corner .
54 All items in italics are additions for the purpose of this guide to the index to Chapter 3 of the CFM and refer to matters of particular relevance to MAS assignments .
55 On June 30 the Ukrainian parliament passed , by 264 votes to four , the amendments to the Ukrainian law on the status of the Crimea as proposed by joint sittings of the presidiums of the Ukrainian and Crimean parliaments .
56 He spoke to the Feldwebel and looked at me .
57 Items like smoked salmon ( usually from Scotland or Ireland when served in the UK and the Loire when served in France ) , oyster , artichokes and asparagus , are regular first course features on French and international menus — and whether in English or a foreign language they are good choices for the figure- and health-conscious .
58 ‘ On my way down I sent a message to the sheriff 's office at the Guildhall and asked for two cursitors to make diligent inquiries amongst the taverns and stews along this side of the river .
59 Such a proposal might well be interpreted by some critics of the CNAA as smacking of ‘ empire-building ’ and it remains to be seen if it will be given serious consideration .
60 Rioting was reported in the ensuing days in Yaoundé , Douala and Bafoussam , and news agency reports quoted an official of the SDF as saying on Nov. 1 that 500 people had been arrested in Bamenda , and that many had been subjected to beatings .
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