Example sentences of "[vb past] of [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capital cost of building plants in the Middle East is very high . |
| 2 | The insurance cost of household goods in transit or in storage , as appropriate , is also included in most policies . |
| 3 | We also read of crowd conversions through the preaching of the Christians in Jerusalem after pentecost ( Acts 2:37–41 ; 4:4 ) . |
| 4 | It is an exciting garden , the hedges and paths divide it so that you come upon different parts almost by surprise , such as the scented garden , the woodland garden , built around some of the trees that Colonel Mitchell left behind him , with a sturdy wooden tree-house for the children , and the patio garden where the Prince sits and does paperwork during the summer months to the soothing sound of water , which springs from a sculpture he commissioned of stone whales . |
| 5 | In the study which Teresa Hinton and Richard Berthoud made of Money Advice Services , they showed how much the development had been a response to the increasing demands for help at a local level . |
| 6 | SOMETHING MADE OF CHINA FALLS AND BREAKS Oh hell . |
| 7 | The perennial fascination of Karajan 's 1954 recordings of Mozart 's Così fan tutte and Strauss 's Ariadne auf Naxos lies partly in the exquisitely cast singing and playing , partly in the use Legge and Karajan made of studio conditions to create performances of radical intimacy , the music-making addressed to the microphone and the private listener rather than belted out across some putative theatrical footlights . |
| 8 | I had a llama that smelled of chicken korma . |
| 9 | The floor of the barn was cold stone and slimy and smelled of engine oil and damp cereals . |
| 10 | It smelled of wine dregs , damp soot , and whitewash . |
| 11 | The hall smelled of cedar wood and sweet wax . |
| 12 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 13 | The way they manipulated their gang members , the way they deferred to their adoring mother Vi and the way they disposed of smalltime enemies like George Cornell and Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVittie , were all done with a tangled misunderstanding of vice and virtue . |
| 14 | One of the last reports told of enemy soldiers lighting an open fire in a wheelbarrow in the church of Saints Philip and Jacob . |
| 15 | And we when we came of age puberty I was frightened to death me because I was sitting on the bea we were playing on the beach still a child of twelve cos we still went about with little socks on at twelve in them days . |
| 16 | He guessed a lot of young people had : the few faces on the street seemed of retirement age . |
| 17 | Tanner disapproved of kidnap insurance and companies like D'Arcy 's which negotiated for hostage release . |
| 18 | ‘ But you made it perfectly clear that you disapproved of shipboard romances . |
| 19 | Children [ who already smoked ] who disapproved of cigarette advertising were more likely to quit than those who approved of it . ’ |
| 20 | The atmosphere stank of exhaust fumes . |
| 21 | ‘ Waldegrave was drunk , he stank of wine fumes . |
| 22 | In a study of 6000 children aged 10–12 , ‘ children who approved of cigarette advertising were twice as likely to become smokers as children who disapproved ’ with the smoking behaviour of those who were ambivalent about advertising falling between that of the two groups … |
| 23 | The original limestone consisted of calcium carbonate , but sometime after it was formed , water rich in dissolved magnesium percolated through the rock . |
| 24 | Working for Mr Looms , his abiding memory is of the desks in the office , which consisted of brick sides with a concrete slab as a working surface . |
| 25 | Allan Wells ' training consisted of speedball training and gym circuits , hill running , bounding and specific sprint training on the track . |
| 26 | Lunch , as we cleared Orkney , consisted of whale steaks and salad , the former by courtesy of a Norwegian whaler which called at Stromness . |
| 27 | In the financial year 1986–7 , the Severn-Trent Water Authority spent £14.2 million on land drainage , of which £7.6 million consisted of river maintenance work for the benefit of agriculture . |
| 28 | In producing national network programmes ( the network basically consisted of telegraph wires stretching some 5,000 miles from Vancouver , on the Pacific to Halifax , Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast ) we soon became familiar with the five time-zones across the country . |
| 29 | The basic armament consisted of twin Vickers K machine guns mounted front and rear . |
| 30 | This consisted of management data on pay , productivity , hours , staff numbers and so on , minutes of negotiating and consultative meetings , and internal plans and reports . |