Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] that [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs . |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman literature was not constituted of the random dregs and splashes of French literature that landed in England ; it formed an organic literary corpus of its own , and , most significantly in this context , formed part of a trilingual medieval English literary corpus , as exemplified by certain great English , Latin and Anglo-Norman manuscript miscellanies of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries . |
| 3 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 4 | Barnes reached a long arm over the ridge of fallen soil that remained in the mouth of the hole , and groped experimentally around within . |
| 5 | Deposits of late-glacial age that accumulated in small closed basins within glacial drift in the valleys are now often covered by a thick mantle of peat and are difficult to locate except by extensive systematic borings . |
| 6 | Yet it was the Maria Colwell Enquiry ( DHSS , 1984 ) and the subsequent depressing line of similar enquiries that followed in its wake , that interrupted a continuity of optimism and expansion , and destroyed some long-standing assumptions about the positive role of social work interventions in family lives . |
| 7 | The fashion of male circumcision that began in the 1890s , and a wide range of related subjects . |
| 8 | Minute as these quantities are , they constitute tangible evidence of the types of organic materials that existed in the Solar System more than 1000 million years before the appearance of life on Earth , the earliest traces of which are found in rocks about 3.4 x 109 years old . |
| 9 | Besides the various religions of eastern origin that flourished in Rome during the second and third centuries AD , there was also a resurgence of philosophical speculation . |
| 10 | There were others with stark walls that invited , with summit domes of brushed snow that gleamed in the sunshine ; others with fish-tail crests or long ribs topped with cornices to remind me of scenes from the Himalaya . |
| 11 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 12 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 13 | He also left a tradition of mathematical biology that flowered in the game theory of John Maynard Smith and the kin-selection theory of Professor Bill Hamilton , now of Oxford University . |
| 14 | ‘ Aye , ’ Bull replied laconically , accepting a glass of whisky and a pint of pale beer that appeared in front of him . |
| 15 | Small animals could live off the whisps of yellow grass that persisted in growing , and large animals could live off the small animals . |
| 16 | Fittingly , Scotland 's Daimien Black , 14 , is hot favourite to win a test of ball-juggling skill that originated in his country . |
| 17 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 18 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |