Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My cleverness consisted of verbal fluency and , more importantly , the concomitant skill of literacy . |
| 2 | My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley . |
| 3 | Their mockery consisted of two taunts : |
| 4 | For example , the major criticism which parents made of social workers concerned their poor communications , lack of openness and honesty , failure to value parents ' strengths and to treat them as equals , and a failure to involve parents in decisions . |
| 5 | Their movement consisted of magnetized bodies magnetizing one another . ’ |
| 6 | Her breath smelled of wild garlic . |
| 7 | Their breath smelled of stale fish . |
| 8 | Her audience consisted of five punk kids at one table and an elderly couple at another who both sat staring , not at the singer , but straight ahead of them , a half-pint mug in front of each . |
| 9 | When the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed by Ho in 1925 its nucleus consisted of Vietnamese terrorists , the Tam Tam Xa , who had already attempted the assassination of a French Governor-General on a state visit to Canton , and Canton became a staging-post for the return of young Vietnamese revolutionaries who might now declare themselves to be Marxists as well . |
| 10 | Two years later her son died of yellow fever . |
| 11 | His arrest led to the severing of diplomatic relations with Norway , where Wamwere had been given refugee status and which Kenya accused of supporting subversion in Kenya . |
| 12 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 13 | Only his tears spoke of brotherly love . |
| 14 | Only his secretary knew of this place . |
| 15 | His catch consisted of eight skimmer bream . |
| 16 | Though your story told of some doubt about their future together , the happy ending was written in their eyes . |