Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 2 | The second was called up by reference to Archbold , Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 44th ed. ( 1992 ) , vol. 1 , p. 433 , para. 4–45 . |
| 3 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 4 | The latter were passed around for us to examine . |
| 5 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 6 | Black and Asian guards began to appear in Britain and in many places menial station tasks , catering employment , and the like were taken over by immigrants or by guest workers . |
| 7 | But in the devastating Resolution of 1948 , the Sixth was singled out for criticism and removed from the repertoire . |
| 8 | Leading after three rounds , the fourth was washed out without a ball being hit . |
| 9 | Ziff-Davis Publishing Co is closing PC Sources and is turning Corporate Computing into a newsletter ; the first was beaten out of the market by another Ziff publication , and the latter was squeezed as Ziff 's personal computer magazines increasingly encroached on its turf . |
| 10 | Two pensioners lost their second home — the first was wiped out by Hurricane Elena in 1985 . |
| 11 | The first was passed by with a view to concentrating efforts on the second . |
| 12 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 13 | It appeared that the former was hung up on sadomasochism and the latter high on sex , leaving little for Fonda and Hopper to do but punctuate every word with ‘ man ’ . |
| 14 | The analysis represented by the Munn Report was indeed more sophisticated than that of the DES document ; the fact that the former was drawn up by professionals rather than civil servants may have something to do with this . |
| 15 | The Irish were beaten back in ‘ 87 by 88 runs against a side which then had six Test players , including Allan Lamb . |
| 16 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 17 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 18 | The Military were backed up against a wall and disorientated . |
| 19 | PC Crowe was then joined by a neighbour , Hamish Fulton , but the two were beaten back from trying to get to the man 's wife by thick black smoke . |
| 20 | The four were split up by injuries and suspensions in the dismal sequence of defeats which followed the FA Trophy exit , but things are slowly turning round , believes Hill . |
| 21 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 22 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 23 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 24 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 25 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 26 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 27 | A fourth was shot down by concentrated anti-aircraft fire . |
| 28 | So much so that , despite the recession , more than 250,000 new businesses have been started in the last 12 months — and over a third were set up by women . |