Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merger boom of the 1960s occurred within a general business ethos of ‘ big is beautiful ’ . |
| 2 | Only the proprietor of the six left in the room had a clear idea of what the concept meant . |
| 3 | A few of the rearmost fled down the river valley towards Whitton , and made good their escape , but most stood their ground as soon as the hurtling , heaving mass lost impetus and came to a seething stay . |
| 4 | Conservatives have decided to do for the freedom fighters what the American left of the '30s did for the Communists in Spain . |
| 5 | In electricity , the shortages of the sixties led to a considerable investment in new power stations , so that at the moment we in fact have far more electricity power stations than we need . |
| 6 | ‘ The end of the sixties came as a kind of incredible collapse ’ , wrote Haynes , ‘ a collapse of hope , and of the innocence and the naïveté of the decade when everyone felt we were changing the world . ’ |
| 7 | None of the bereaved stood on the spot where their relatives died . |
| 8 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |
| 9 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 10 | ‘ Good morning , ’ the shorter of the two said with a charming smile . |
| 11 | The younger of the two ran for the side of the boat , perhaps in an attempt to dive over the side . |
| 12 | The most appropriate approach might comprise of a combination of the two used in the early stages of design , with an optimization option being employed when the design possibilities have been explored and the parameters , constraints and objectives are no longer likely to change . |
| 13 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 14 | Presumably none of the former volunteered for the project ! |
| 15 | There are five articles on the Valadier family workshop , all stimulated by the recent spectacular discoveries of drawings and documents — many of the former included in the memorable exhibition mounted by the Artemis group in 1991 . |
| 16 | A good example of the former occurred during the passage of the British submarine H.50 , which in 1941 was being escorted by the destroyer Worcester off the north Norfolk coast in waters where German E-boats often used to attack . |
| 17 | Two Colombian journalists , the last remaining hostages of the nine kidnapped by the " Extraditables " group between August and November 1990 , were freed on May 20 in Bogotá , the capital , as the government continued to negotiate with the Medellín and Calí cartels the terms of surrender of leading " drug barons " . |
| 18 | A petition of the 1660s referred to the entire dependence of many local people on the trade , particularly ‘ ye constant imployment of at least 50,000 lusty able workman ready for defence of your Majesty and ye Nacion in case of general needs ’ . |
| 19 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 20 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 21 | Ms Campbell has a good lead over Mr Charest in delegates who have declared their commitment , but is well short of the 1,900 needed for a first-ballot win . |
| 22 | The increasing stylistic simplification of the 1930s led to a ‘ moderne ’ style being adopted for pubs , although this was not always wholly at the expense of Tudor or Georgian . |
| 23 | Skilfully detailed miniature landscapes , including working trains of the 1930s set in the wilds of Dartmoor and farms and cottages grouped in a typical village from the Vale of White Horse . |
| 24 | Most of the 800 named by the commission were wanted by Yugoslavia , and the FO secretly acknowledged that it had an excellent case . |
| 25 | Of the 104 launched on the first day of the war , it seems , 10–20 fell from the sky . |
| 26 | All you have to do is put the qualities for the Man of the Nineties listed on the coupon in order of what you consider to be important , from one to six . |
| 27 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 28 | The revenues that washed over both for much of the 1980s flowed from the same wellspring . |
| 29 | Similarly , 4414 West Ham residents worked at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refineries , 4171 ( 94.5 per cent ) of whom lived in Canning Town or Plaistow , while of the 3880 employed at the LNER locomotive works , 3444 ( 88.8 per cent ) lived in Stratford or Forest Gate . |
| 30 | Four of the dead came from an American service family stationed at Brandon , Suffolk . |