Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 2 | They all expected each member of the staff to express — discreetly — particular and intense interest in their child . |
| 3 | Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations . |
| 4 | The Warnock Committee recommended that donation of an egg or proembryo should be permitted as a means of treating infertility , but that the techniques should be carefully controlled by licensing . |
| 5 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
| 6 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 7 | Those incomers with whom I discussed class agreed that awareness of class is a typically British trait . |
| 8 | In deference to German wishes , the EC agreed that recognition of Bosnia should not take place from yesterday , April 6 , a date still remembered in the Balkans as the anniversary of the Nazi invasion in 1941 . |
| 9 | Lowell , holding her , made little sense of what she was saying . |
| 10 | WHILE the European Commission refused to give any public reaction to the Tories ’ victory , senior Brussels bureaucrats made little secret of the fact that they would have preferred a more pliable Labour government . |
| 11 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 12 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 13 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 14 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 15 | Indeed , after 1322 Edward made little use of parliament . |
| 16 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 17 | The final communiqué , however , made little mention of economic assistance to eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Many of our studies and our own commentaries have in fact made little mention of children … |
| 19 | He argued that nomination of Dora Maria Téllez for the current DN had not been accepted because a " traditional " directorate was needed " during this period of transition " . |
| 20 | The Bank is in any event concerned that disclosure of the particulars of any of this information would compromise not only the proper conduct of that investigation but also the effectiveness of the Bank 's supervision . |
| 21 | She probably lived that sort of life herself , Stephen thought . |
| 22 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |
| 23 | The Chancellor later announced that evidence of fraud had been uncovered after an investigation into JMB 's banking activities . |
| 24 | For those interested in the internationalisation of financial reporting and auditing , there was an encouraging note on the final morning when Paul Guy of IOSCO announced that endorsement of IAPC 's auditing standards would be forthcoming later in the month ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 13 ) . |
| 25 | And what kind of dope produced that kind of idiotic but vivid hallucination ? |
| 26 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 27 | I sold that stick of mine long ago . |
| 28 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 29 | For example Camden social services department made public the findings of an independent review of their homes which revealed that lack of recreational activities and opportunities for choice , lack of training for staff and management difficulties were all interwoven ( Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Stating that while " the available capacity of beds in all hospitals must be accessible to all persons " , the minister affirmed that implementation of the reform should also take into account " the principle of acceptability " and " consideration of cultural , religious , social and language groups " . |