Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Among Catholics the response ranged from mild support to disinterest . |
| 2 | The park lay in sodden neglect , sprawling over its rank acreage as if it had passed out . |
| 3 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 4 | Report from Mr N McLeod re the vandalism perpetrated by local youngsters who congregate at a memorial seat outside the Primary School Annexe . |
| 5 | This seems to be the logical approach , as the surplus giving rise to the refund arose from excess contributions in past years on which tax relief was claimed . |
| 6 | In the United States , fear of European embroilment and the pro-Nationalist zeal of many American Catholics effectively cancelled out the sympathy felt in liberal circles towards the Republic . |
| 7 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 8 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 9 | Two served for the county as a whole , the remainder came from eleven boroughs . |
| 10 | After 10min on ice , 32 P labelled probes were added and the incubation continued for 30 min at room temperature . |
| 11 | The stairway went up ten stairs to a landing with a large window , then up another ten to the first floor . |
| 12 | The trembling turned to slight fear as he saw her colour rise . |
| 13 | The Hungarians acceded to the throne of Croatia in 1102. and the link remained through many vicissitudes until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 . |
| 14 | The prince spoke for 15 minutes about caring for the terminally ill , then extended his visit to a London conference to talk privately with health service staff . |
| 15 | The CO chuckled with unashamed glee at the little joke he was about to make at Charles 's expense . |
| 16 | The bluetits provided the normal grubs and caterpillars , which the blackbird supplemented with juicy worms . |
| 17 | The change came with parliamentary reform in the nineteenth century and the emergence of large disciplined political parties in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 18 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 19 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The defendant was rearraigned and the trial proceeded on both counts . |
| 22 | The trial commenced in late May 1990 of 35 defendants accused of fraudulent bankruptcy and other offences arising out of the collapse in August 1982 of the Banco Ambrosiano [ see p. 32083 ] . |
| 23 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 24 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 25 | The trial collapsed after former Defence Minister Alan Clark admitted in court the Government knew firms were supplying machinery to Iraq and breaking an arms embargo . |
| 26 | ‘ I would not , ’ the Lieutenant said with cold courtesy , ‘ wish to feast on a Battle Brother who was not of my Chapter . ’ |
| 27 | The sentence came under immediate attack , with the girl 's mother saying she wanted the case reviewed , and child care experts saying the judge 's remarks were ‘ totally unacceptable . ’ |
| 28 | Subsequent modifications in the technique resulted in long term maintenance of shunt patency and infrequent migration of the internal stents . |
| 29 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 30 | Most of the money went to local authorities who developed in-service courses and co-operated with educational institutions in establishing post-qualifying courses in child protection . |