Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Governments round the world made the control of inflation the number one short-term macroeconomic objective . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Prout in nineteen ninety two a hundred and seventy patients and again found the number of tumours the most important feature . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back on the main road , Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor . |
| 11 | Musetti built a bed of boxes the other side to break his fall . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Smith and his colleagues accordingly inoculated some rabbits with the recombinant and measured the amount of antibody the animals produced . |
| 16 | The customer called him Francis : a first name , a last name , a man 's , a woman 's ; it allowed the kind of vagueness the supplier liked . |
| 17 | After that we never got started , as soon as we got a bit of momentum the sunderland players wasted time by falling over and claiming injury . |
| 18 | The Green Man in Kilburn , an area of London popular with the Irish , featured and impressive painting of an Irish tinker over the door which indicated the kind of custom the place enjoyed . |
| 19 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 20 | When day dawned the home of Simon the Trapper was no longer on a peninsula but on an island and stood just clear of the water . |
| 21 | Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished . |
| 22 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 23 | The policy review had produced ‘ relevant and practical ’ answers that offered the kind of socialism the British people understood and supported . |
| 24 | Then New York , the rising fashion Mecca of the 1970s , offered the world of swimwear the trikini in 1973 . |
| 25 | And we had to help them to move and you know help them to move their things and really I saw the kind of difficulties the girls would be living under . |
| 26 | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries ; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch ; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian 's usurpation ; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father 's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church . |
| 27 | But with a shake of his head and a gentle smile he decided against doing so , for he liked the feeling of freedom the open window gave him . |
| 28 | He perhaps promoted the cult of Edward the Martyr for similar reasons . |
| 29 | My Lords let me like the Noble Viscount like Lord and the Noble Lord , Lord of Aberdale and indeed the Noble Lord , Lord of Haringey , begin by welcoming the decision of the Government to erm drop the provision in the Bill which gave the Secretary of State the power to appoint the Chairman of the Policy Authority . |
| 30 | Aye it did a lot of damage the dykes and that . |