Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no other way in except to walk through the priory , but a stranger would be stopped by the porter and seen by any of the community , be it nun or one of the lay workers . |
| 2 | If the official receiver has a number of general proxies given to him , it is usual for him to vote with these proxies in accordance with the wishes of the majority as expressed at the meeting itself or by virtue of special proxies lodged . |
| 3 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 4 | I would argue with the author on the merits of the wing-down as opposed to the crab cross-wind landing techniques , and feel that he should have concentrated less on right-hand tractor American rotation engines , but other than that I ca n't fault him , and would class the book as absolutely required for anyone aspiring to be a tailwheel instructor . |
| 5 | Henry O'Bree was depressed about the exams and left behind a suicide note . |
| 6 | Both of these rejected the notion of the primitive as used in the earlier studies , as well as the evolutionary concepts which had legitimized that notion . |
| 7 | The neck is Brazilian mahogany , 44mm wide at the nut , finished in thin , gloss water-based lacquer like the rest of the guitar and shaped to a well-rounded V. The headstock , which is bound and has a koa wood facing to match the back and sides , carries a set of gold Schallers with ebony buttons . |
| 8 | Thus ‘ dexter ‘ refers to the left -hand side of the shield as viewed from the front , and ‘ sinister ’ means the right -hand side . ) |
| 9 | Not counted as ‘ work time ’ are periods described by the housewife as spent in leisure occupations watching television , reading and so on . |
| 10 | He sent reviews to Record Mirror ( occasionally under the nom-de-plume Sheridan Whitehead ) and the NME but achieved little success . |
| 11 | Ron Mardle has drawn up a plan for the dismantling , and we have dug out round the base and marked up some key parts of the vehicle for future recognition . |
| 12 | The defendants were said to have spent two hours on the base and taken photographs of themselves painting the aircraft . |
| 13 | The power unit may be detached from the base and used as a mini grinder . |
| 14 | The provision as drafted is not entirely clear , and the use of the words " is not of itself to be taken " might be construed to imply that some other type of truly voluntary acceptance could override s 2(1) or 2(2) by the operation of the rule . |
| 15 | Finally a single Land-Rover ground over the ridge and stopped at the barricade . |
| 16 | The performance of the homes sits in the Orlando area - Davenport Glen and Chatham Park — exceeded our expectations , whilst Monterey in Dade County produced a range of homes which appealed very strongly to local residents including some whose motivation to purchase had been prompted by the hurricane while swept through southern Florida last year . |
| 17 | The report considers which level of geographical unit is most suited to analysing regional problems in the Community from the three levels defined in the mid-1970s and subsumed under the French acronym , NUTS levels I , II and III . |
| 18 | The Serpent when assailed |
| 19 | To that general principle , however , there would seem to be a number of exceptions where the court will not simply accept the verdict of the solicitors as expressed in their own agreement . |
| 20 | The other , farther up the hill past the waterfall and surrounded by a protective fence , is a beautiful timber church covered in shingles and with turned balustrading and three onion domes . |
| 21 | He should have gone outside , grabbed the keys of the bike and taken off , but instead he was trapped and she was following him , her footsteps tentative on the stairs . |
| 22 | Then she gave up the struggle and dropped on her knees beside Debbie . |
| 23 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 24 | Anyone could have opened it , stolen one of the clubs and gone after Alain when he left the house . |
| 25 | It was suggested , for example , that stock was over-valued and that credit notes due to customers had been understated with the effect that whereas the accounts as published had reported profits of £1.3m , they should have reported a loss of approximately £400,000 . |
| 26 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 27 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 28 | However , the trial as recorded by Luke is a confusing narrative that is built around three important titles of Jesus : |
| 29 | These patients were withdrawn from the trial and treated with corticosteroids . |
| 30 | BglII , XhoI and BamHI restriction sites are at equivalent positions in each of the repeats as shown . |