Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | explicitly made the question of agency the critical point of the case . |
| 2 | Lord Mountbatten 's orders from the Prime Minister made the invasion of Europe the main objective with ‘ a programme of raids in ever-increasing intensity ’ . |
| 3 | She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure , but now I was grown up and Wendyless . |
| 4 | Hence , the following historical and comparative analysis will seek to identify those features that made the bill of lading the fair and certain negotiable document of title it was until the advent of containerization . |
| 5 | By the late 1930s , the rapidly falling birth rate made the quantity of population a more pressing issue than its ‘ quality ’ . |
| 6 | Governments round the world made the control of inflation the number one short-term macroeconomic objective . |
| 7 | Economic hardship , the death and destruction brought by war , and a lack of faith in themselves , all made the task of reconstruction a formidable one for Germans . |
| 8 | The economy 's heavy reliance on trade combined with government responsibility for maintaining the value of sterling , made the balance of payments a central issue of the political economy of the period [ Beckerman , 1972 ; Dornbusch and Fisher , 1980 ] . |
| 9 | Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion . |
| 10 | About 12 months ago , I asked the Secretary of State a question about the safety of the lighting on the M6 . |
| 11 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 12 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 13 | The policeman knew everybody , and he was a very nice man , very firm , and he would deal with minor , youth troubles , you know , when we got the spate of trouble every now and then . |
| 14 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 15 | If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch . |
| 16 | As we entered the Sound of Islay the gale renewed its fury , whipping the strong tides of the Sound into white water and the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low cloud scud and rain , only appearing intermittently as shadow all the way to Oban . |
| 17 | When they approached the village of Marlott a tear rolled down her cheek . |
| 18 | He had a permanent smile in his eyes , I thought , much as if he found the whole of life a joke . |
| 19 | She did her best to stimulate a constant flow of love letters , and found the collecting of admirers a very satisfying pastime . |
| 20 | With very few exceptions , they found the world of FE a little alien , but showed no adversarial tendencies ; they were unanimous in their insistence on high standards and will help us attain and maintain these . |
| 21 | Prout in nineteen ninety two a hundred and seventy patients and again found the number of tumours the most important feature . |
| 22 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 23 | Back on the main road , Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor . |
| 24 | Musetti built a bed of boxes the other side to break his fall . |
| 25 | Well it involved a lot of things a bit of everything . |
| 26 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 27 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 28 | Iain Reekie confesses to entertaining an ambition to stage it ever since his days at college when he played the part of Creon the king , and perhaps this background makes him hostile to any interpretation which would see in Creon a proto-Nazi . |
| 29 | At the same time she received a pension of £1,600 a year from the privy purse of her late husband 's rival , George III of Great Britain . |
| 30 | She negotiated a fee of $1,800 a week from which she had to pay the Girls ' salaries of $45 each , netting considerably more for herself . |