Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 2 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 3 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 4 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister opened the debate , he made it clear that he had sensed right the mood of the House and of the British people . |
| 6 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 7 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 8 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 9 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 10 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 11 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 12 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 13 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 14 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 15 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 16 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 17 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 18 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 19 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 20 | The voice was sun-warm , rough smoothed down a notch with sympathy ; the accent had a home : Santos Angeles . |
| 21 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 22 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 23 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 24 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 25 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 26 | During this period I have learnt a great deal about what children like [ and dislike ] at parties and have gathered together a selection of games , songs and magic tricks which I can guarantee will make any party a day to remember , for both children and adults . |
| 27 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 28 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 29 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 30 | They have therefore gathered together an impressive group of sixteen experts and devised cast-iron vetting rules . |