Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 2 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 3 | The percentage of whisky sold has been decreasing as the sale of vodkas and light rums has been rising . |
| 4 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 5 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 6 | On wet ground , play the ball back a bit in your stance to ensure catching the ball first , thus minimising the amount of moisture squeezed between the clubface and the ball at impact . |
| 7 | Any substantial quantity of moisture forced out of the cheese when it is subjected to heat may spoil the consistency of a dish , making it watery . |
| 8 | The amount of moisture left in it became even more important than the substantial amount of relatively thick green grass left on it . |
| 9 | It was not raining , but droplets of moisture condensed on every cold surface and Wycliffe could taste the salt on his lips . |
| 10 | This lack of attention is surprising given the widespread use of graphs revealed in the study , sponsored by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , of the corporate annual reports of 240 large UK companies that we have recently completed . |
| 11 | What is more , the cultivation of the idea of emperorship brought with it a renewed interest in the rich sources of the Roman law . |
| 12 | Following further dispute all hopes of unity ended after five races and CART took control of the remainder of the series . |
| 13 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 14 | The session had ended with the seven of them grinning broadly , their earlier mood of despondency cast aside , their sense of unity rebuilt . |
| 15 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 16 | Salts can be described as a collection of ions held together by their mutual electrostatic attraction . |
| 17 | In addition to the poll tax , there was a complex system of taxes based on land and on crops , some paid in kind , which could amount to as much as 25 per cent of the harvest . |
| 18 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 19 | Kazakhstan conceded the issue of federal taxation in June , however , and on July 25 the Russian Federation agreed that a fixed percentage of taxes raised from enterprises by the RSFSR government ( rather than a predetermined amount as earlier demanded ) would go to the union budget . |
| 20 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 21 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 22 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 23 | Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable . |
| 24 | However , he went on to hold that the claim failed on another ground , viz. , that as a general rule there will , as a matter of policy , be no recovery of taxes paid pursuant to legislation which is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid . |
| 25 | With the simple voting framework , the voter has to form a judgement about the trade-offs between different objectives , for example , the level of taxes needed to finance a proposed spending programme . |
| 26 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 27 | At the hearings , North hotly denied that there was any element of play involved . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a lot of play involved but the games all have an underlying aim ; survival , safety and getting some movement going . ’ |
| 29 | Carr was dismissed by referee Brian White with just four minutes of play gone after he kicked out at Donegal midfielder Brian Murray . |
| 30 | He would allow the existence of different ideological currents , but they must be bound by the common rules of play imposed by him . |