Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 2 | In this case Woolwich would , in relation to the revenue , have been no worse off if they had refused payment of the tax claimed and raised the defence which subsequently proved successful . |
| 3 | Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted . |
| 4 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 5 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 6 | To the majority who never had the chance to meet him properly , I should like to tell you that he was a merry young man who tempered his quick intelligence with humour , and would , in time , have made worthwhile contributions both to medicine and to the Circle … ’ |
| 7 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 8 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 9 | Gloria put on her stockings , one coupon each , two for the pair and always kept for best , straightened the seams up the back , Vase lined her eyebrows , and put on her suede peeptoe shoes and her little black hat with the veil which usually lived in one of the paper carrier bags on the top of the shelf . |
| 10 | That comment , made shortly after the 1951 elections , is sufficient to explain the split which gradually developed between the RPF parliamentarians and de Gaulle . |
| 11 | It was the GP who then decided whether to treat the patient , to refer the patient on to another agency , or to do nothing . |
| 12 | Opting out of a policy which costs each family of four over £1,000 a year would certainly do much to help the farming industry regain the esteem it once enjoyed with the general public . |
| 13 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 14 | She was acquitted on 17 counts of murder but admitted manslaughter during the trial which dramatically collapsed when the INLA bomb gang threw in the towel and changed their pleas . |
| 15 | The board itself then proved its own determination — it abolished itself in favour of a proper functional board . |
| 16 | Hugh dragged food from his sack , the food the thin man had transferred from his saddle-bags and the remains of the Friar 's provisions ; whatever else lay in the bottom of the sack he carefully left there . |
| 17 | McManus 's 5-2 victory was only his second in eight meetings against the Londoner who sportingly tipped his 22-year-old Scottish rival for the title . |
| 18 | That 's the passageway we just walked down . |
| 19 | For the rest of the afternoon she simply sat in the front room of the old farmhouse , surrounded by paint pots and rolls of wallpaper , oblivious to the chaos as she went over everything that had happened in her mind . |
| 20 | And when the person who owed them money was the heir to the throne they still deserved to be treated justly , perhaps even more so . |
| 21 | Matilda , Countess of Anjou and Princess of England , occupied her great , carved chair as though she sat upon the throne she stubbornly insisted was hers . |
| 22 | But Alured soon died , and by 20 November 1651 his widow Mary petitioned , equally unsuccessfully , for the money which never came . |
| 23 | When they learnt about the money they soon changed their tune . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the money he eventually made , he had a new argument to use in the continual discussions among traders about the justice and Koranic authority of the government 's policy toward commerce . |
| 25 | The brewery itself eventually became , some time around 1847 , Smith Garrett and Company . |
| 26 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 27 | ( His father 's occupation is particularly significant , because the invention of the mechanical clock must presumably have depended on the co-operation of the learned man , probably a monk , who first thought of it and the blacksmith who actually constructed it . ) |
| 28 | Dr Javed , advising on the Civil Service had six enquiries but could n't understand why students did n't take more advantage of a unique opportunity to talk with Salford graduates already established in the field they probably intended entering themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 30 | This is a considerable contrast with the camaraderie of the field which frequently existed before the widespread introduction of tractors . |