Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twirled a knob of hair and crooned as though having described a trifling scene . |
| 2 | Just as he did this , the government had a change of heart and decided that there would after all be a Private Members ' ballot . |
| 3 | A number of the Roman emperors were great patrons of building and endorsed and encouraged extensive schemes of architectural development . |
| 4 | The Report acknowledged the problems involved in determining the levels of difficulty and complexity in the work that has to be carried out in the social services and the barriers that exist to sharing this work among different kinds of personnel but concluded that ‘ nevertheless , some distinction in work levels is possible and necessary in our view , and this is most practicable where there is close teamwork and an emphasis on ‘ team responsibility' ’ for cases , ( pp. 137–8 ) . |
| 5 | He had heard stories of security forces planting illegal objects during searches of houses and hoped that his presence might help to safeguard against it . |
| 6 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated . |
| 8 | I looked in a table of isotopes and found that the concentration of deuterium is 1.5 parts of 10 000 ( parts of ordinary water ) . |
| 9 | The newly elected president of the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , on Dec. 23 declared 1991 a year of struggle and warned that the government 's reforms were replacing " naked racism and exploitation with subtle forms of racism and exploitation " . |
| 10 | All four studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of these types of programmes and found that anxiety levels fell significantly . |
| 11 | But it was rather boring , and one of the gang got a can of anti-perspirant and suggested that they each have a sniff to get high and have ‘ dreams ’ . |
| 12 | It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . |
| 13 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 14 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 15 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |
| 16 | It condemned the use of force and demanded that human rights be respected " including the rights of national minorities " . |
| 17 | He tried a sip of tea and winced as the hot liquid scalded his tongue . |
| 18 | The level of opposition that existed when my predecessor brought in the contract will be shown by history to have been wildly overstated . |
| 19 | He issued a detailed list of demands and said that the government 's response would determine the speed with which genuine negotiations could resume . |
| 20 | She did n't feel pain , only a small burst of pleasure that intensified as he then licked her reddened skin . |
| 21 | Results of these early test flights were hardly spectacular in terms of speed and indicated that the P–59 had some very significant things going against it . |
| 22 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 23 | I enjoyed my course of study and felt that the practicalities of business were a perfect antidote to the magic that had dominated my adolescence . |
| 24 | The narrow road they were following was overhung with oak and chestnut trees , their interlaced branches letting through thin , bright shafts of light that flickered and danced over the car as it passed underneath . |
| 25 | I have formally to decline such offers and shame on the correspondent who said that he had a pair of longjohns that flashed as he took them off and I was welcome to observe the spectacle at any time . |
| 26 | He rang the managing director of Downton and said that if the other two players did n't have their contracts cancelled immediately he and Mary-Ann would call a Press Conference , tear up their contracts with his company , and tell the world 's Press why . |
| 27 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 28 | At the parliament which met in November 1279 Pecham was forced to withdraw not only the order to display and expound Magna Carta but also the excommunication against royal officers who ignored writs of caption or seized or wasted temporalities and against any of the suitors of illegitimate prohibitions . |
| 29 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 30 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |