Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reached out an arm in the darkness and found my pile of loose coins , placed , as usual , to the left of the groundsheet . |
| 2 | The nationalist government of Edward Fenech Adami maintained its policy of encouraging West European investment [ see p. 37014 ] , liberalizing trade and foreign investment , removing import licences , and promoting export industries and private-sector employment . |
| 3 | The Chatichai government maintained its policy of increased support for the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and the Vietnam governments alongside a sterner approach towards the Thai-based Cambodian resistance . |
| 4 | In one discussion staff described their use of three word processors , two spreadsheets , one database and no less than four graphics packages . |
| 5 | To the hushed hall she described her feelings of real fear , of helplessness and panic . |
| 6 | The marchioness loosened her mantle of grey cloth and threw it over a chair . |
| 7 | The JIT approach developed by the Japanese also reinforced their concept of total quality control . |
| 8 | A country that could boast the encyclopaedic knowledge of Lomonosov ( 1711–65 ) , the elegance of Karamzin 's ( 1766–1826 ) History of the Russian State , and above all the poetic genius of Pushkin ( 1799–1837 ) found its sense of cultural inferiority fading . |
| 9 | Viola Machin , seated in a dignified pose on the corner of the kitchen table , her white and pale blue brunch coat billowing around her , found her pose of aggrieved innocence difficult to keep up . |
| 10 | The systematic manipulation of the franchise and local authority boundaries continued as the Unionists used their control of local government as a source of patronage . |
| 11 | As for Mr Gilbert , an industrial tribunal dismissed his claim of unfair discrimination . |
| 12 | Darwin proposed his theory of sexual selection to account for sex differences of structure and behaviour , according to which , in most species , males compete for , and females select , mates . |
| 13 | When he finally emerged , Mr Major demonstrated his mastery of one form of economy — with words . |
| 14 | The most important study in this period was published in 1924 when Sidney Haas described his treatment of coeliac disease . |
| 15 | Further criticism came from foreign commentators who found his espousal of Western ideas too selective by far , taking him to task for his autocratic style , for underpinning his regime with the repressive Savak security apparatus , his sybaritic leisure-image — notably featuring snow and sun at St Moritz — and his failure to uproot corruption in his entourage . |
| 16 | Polly found his tone of polite enquiry and total absence of facial expression disconcerting . |
| 17 | we wove our patterns of shared song |
| 18 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 19 | For , ‘ new industrial regions ’ ( Greater London , Warwickshire , Staffordshire and Worcester shire ) expanded their share of net output from 28.7 per cent to 37.1 per cent over the period 1924 to 1935 ( Pollard , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | Rita Claydon , a 49-old grandmother , ditched her husband of 30 years to marry 18-year-old window cleaner Roy Dubbs . |
| 21 | By contrast Iraq announced its severance of diplomatic relations with the UK on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ for July 1990 release of Daphne Parish in Iraq see p. 37627 ] . |
| 22 | As this issue went to press the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis announced its acquisition of 437 multiples by Beuys , rivalling the collections of the artist 's works in the Guggenheim Musem and Dia Center for the Arts in New York . |
| 23 | It made her think of sour washing . |
| 24 | It made her think of green melons growing under glass lids . |
| 25 | Hannah Gavron made her study of house-bound wives ( 1966 ) just at the start of the recent growth of feminist research , and in fact was a pioneer of that kind of research . |
| 26 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open . |
| 27 | In the Brandeston forge the smith kept a four and a half gallon barrel of beer under the bench , and the men got their allowances of First Nail from this . |
| 28 | Like a distracted mother duck I shepherded my brood of brightly-anoraked ducklings . |
| 29 | I surveyed my family of Bearded Collies thoughtfully . |
| 30 | She talked freely , did n't treat Lucy like a child , and told her stories of old times in long-forgotten venues . |