Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do your searches during the evening when the crowds have departed you will be able to sweep the head of your detector over the very spots where people dropped their cash . |
| 2 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 3 | A slight wisp of smoke came from the back of the man 's hair where the flames had scorched him . |
| 4 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 5 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 6 | The artists have produced their Christmas pack once again , with six cards , six tags and two angels , priced at £3.45 and also their calendar , available at £5.95 . |
| 7 | Her rise through the ranks has surprised her . |
| 8 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 9 | ‘ Word came that the reivers had hidden their galleys in the sea lochan at Arivegaig . ’ |
| 10 | Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ . |
| 11 | The Merseysiders have made their poorest start for 11 years with only five points from five games . |
| 12 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |
| 13 | Most of the time , the courts have ruled their testimony inadmissible . |
| 14 | The courts have made it clear that an employee who responds to an employer 's initiative by volunteering to go is not resigning , but making himself available to be dismissed . |
| 15 | However , the courts have made it clear that the two avenues of approach are still available and this case shows that a failure to establish unfair prejudice does not preclude the winding-up approach . |
| 16 | Whether this sense of unreasonableness is needed at all , and the way in which the courts have manipulated it , well be one of the matters discussed . |
| 17 | The serious ill-health of the witness is a strong reason , but it needs to be clearly proved ; the courts have shown themselves suspicious of mere assertions of unfitness to travel . |
| 18 | The courts have shown themselves sympathetic in cases where the charge payer does not have the means to pay . |
| 19 | 2 Circumstances importing an obligation of confidence The courts have found it difficult to determine a generally applicable test of the circumstances in which an obligation of confidence will arise . |
| 20 | The chamber was almost as large as the cavern above in which the Germans had built their base . |
| 21 | In accordance with Schlieffen 's plan , the Germans had brushed it aside during their thrust into northern France , but Antwerp had now become of crucial importance . |
| 22 | Culture , which later became current with the rise of social anthropology , tended to be associated with what the Germans had believed they had fought for . |
| 23 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 24 | Only six weeks before , the Germans had said they had no claim on the city . |
| 25 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 26 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 27 | The island 's simple agriculture , after the Germans had taken what they wanted , could hardly feed even its few thousand inhabitants . |
| 28 | Then I suddenly remembered that the Germans had taken my bicycle , my most treasured possession . |
| 29 | One old lady from Wiltshire told me if the Germans had come they 'd have killed off old people like her . |
| 30 | The Germans had allowed us to walk between the huts until midnight . |