Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they point out that the applications being checked are a tiny percentage of the 340,000 dealt with this year . |
| 2 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 3 | Many of the French laughed at such antics , or felt disgusted at being allied with so ‘ primitive ’ a people . |
| 4 | Why the French insisted on this condition was obvious : supranationalism was essential in order to create strong institutions which could limit Germany 's industrial independence in future . |
| 5 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 6 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 7 | Including Irish women — six of the forty fell into this category — might be seen as contradicting this objective . |
| 8 | The opposition within the Six came from several sources . |
| 9 | Another difference is that the polyps of leather corals have eight tentacles , rather than the six found in hard coral polyps . |
| 10 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 11 | When the Japanese counter-attacked on other occasions they made a great hullabaloo , often shouting to each other as they came forward . |
| 12 | The second consisted of one presentation each of all possible pairings of the digits 0 to 9 , including reverses ( eg 1+9 and 9+1 ) and ties ( 100 sums in all ) . |
| 13 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 14 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 15 | I watched the screens unblinkingly as the three wheeled into triangular formation around my ship — their guns trained in an unmistakable attitude of menace . |
| 16 | This was due not so much , as now , to divorce or separation ( the former was expensive and rare , though not unheard of , among the labouring poor ; the latter came into legal existence in 1876 ) as to death and desertion . |
| 17 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 18 | photographic slides — both private and official ( the latter held for current research or teaching purposes ) . |
| 19 | In this letter , masculinity — ‘ when men were men ’ — is vigilant against ‘ outside evils ’ , especially racial infiltration and homosexuality , the latter conceived as sexual ambiguity ( ‘ Middlesex Regiment ’ ) . |
| 20 | It would seem that the primary activity of operations needs to be split into direct and indirect costs , with the latter analysed into major cost-driver categories as interpreted by Kaplan . |
| 21 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 22 | The Fifties began in both countries with a general respect for self-denial , saving and security . |
| 23 | First home to the Medway at the end of a 30-mile beat and despite damage to the top section of her mast track was ‘ Crusader ’ ( Richard Matthews ) but an hour 's lead was not quite sufficient to see off ‘ Blush ’ and ‘ Sensor ’ ( Mr & Mrs David Chatterton , WMYC ) and the 12-metre slipped to third place . |
| 24 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 25 | The first looked at good practice in risk management through a programme of visits to industrial and commercial organisations ( Appendix 6 ) , and the second examined the lessons from major accidents . |
| 26 | The first led to increased enamel thickness on the molar teeth combined with little change in postcranial anatomy , and this is seen in the progression from Proconsul to Afropithecus to Kenyapithecus . |
| 27 | An example of the first came from international sprinter Mickey Morris , born in London to Jamaican parents : |
| 28 | The first came after 10 minutes with a fine flick shot . |
| 29 | In the second half everything changed … a man called Tony Philliskirk pulled on his shooting boots and blasted United to pieces … the first came after 59 minutes … |
| 30 | The first consisted of religious groups ; the second comprised peasant colonists . |