Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 2 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 3 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 4 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 5 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |
| 6 | The Sultan deposited within this town a vast store of wealth . |
| 7 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 8 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 9 | Immigrants to the UK fulfilled in many ways the same functions as white working-class people . |
| 10 | Happy Return A BIRTHDAY notice appeared in this newspaper the other day offering greetings to Ken Snowdon , scholar , conversationalist , heart throb , author , humorist , broadcaster , nuclear fission expert . |
| 11 | John Newsom brought to that task an intimate knowledge of the workings of the Establishment , a rich store of anecdote ( much of it scurrilous ) , a delight in getting to know his fellow members and in entertaining them in princely style , and a huge sense of fun . |
| 12 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 13 | In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education . |
| 14 | Whatever the interpretation , it is plain that both Mark and the early Church saw in this story an illustration of the power of God to raise the dead . |
| 15 | A strong east wind crested the wavelets on the dark bosom of Loch Ness , rain-clouds gave to each hill a sombre tone ; some rocky crags and woodland had deeper and richer hues ; while the foreground of heather in full bloom , a corn-field , and potato and turnip rigs , gave other colourings . |
| 16 | A health board spokesman said during that period the doctor worked under supervision and was not involved in any ‘ invasive practices ’ . |
| 17 | Foster agreed in some circumstances the mental health of the child might be fine . |
| 18 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 19 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 20 | Under the commencement theory of jurisdiction propounded in those cases the reviewing court would not reassess whether the elements within the bracket constituting the statutory conditions were met or not . |
| 21 | Dwight Kronweiser came to this room every day , spending his mornings going through the manuscript fiction , personal letters and other papers which had been stored in the attic for thirty years before his arrival . |
| 22 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 23 | Thanks to her political views , the Communist Daily Worker enjoyed for several years the services of a perceptive ballet critic . |
| 24 | Even without the works of Picasso and Braque the public saw in this manifestation a new departure in art ; yet in many ways the succès de scandale of the Indépendants was due as much to the poets as to the painters . |
| 25 | While the influential critic F.R. Leavis adopted in some respects an intimate , conversational tone , writing influenced by Structuralism typically adopts a seemingly more dispassionate , " objective " scientific voice ( e.g. " at this level the inscribed machinery of fixed subject positions is threatened " ) . |
| 26 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 27 | He was reported to have presented five demands ; if Libya acceded to these demands the imposition of sanctions would be forestalled . |
| 28 | Doubtless the slow ‘ stately ’ motion of Jupiter in its orbit and its brightness were some of the reasons for which the Romans gave to this planet the name Jupiter , the Roman king of the gods . |
| 29 | When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction . |