Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK 's factory closures , high unemployment and dislocation of trade of 1980–1 came with surprising exactitude virtually fifty years after the slump of 1931–33 . |
| 2 | Infusion of CCK-33 resulted in significant dose dependent reductions in gall bladder volume in all three experiments . |
| 3 | A lady of 74 presented with unstable angina and intractable pain , despite intravenous nitrates and maximal anti-anginal therapy , but without ECG or enzyme evidence of infarction . |
| 4 | None of that existed before this year . |
| 5 | It was the duty of the ruling sultan , at least in principle , to extend so far as he could the area controlled by true believers at the expense of that ruled by Christian infidels . |
| 6 | Rural population growth has had a distinctive regional pattern , which is , of course , the inverse of that observed for rural depopulation . |
| 7 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 8 | To cope with its new level of business the Great Western has a fleet of thirty-one supplemented by some sets of locomotive-hauled stock . |
| 9 | London and Birmingham lost manufacturing , and little of this went to other cities . |
| 10 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |
| 11 | Significant changes were identified by applying a statistical threshold of 0.05 corrected for multiple comparisons ( see Fig. 2 legend for methods ) . |
| 12 | Some of these lived in shallow water sites and were gregarious like mussels . |
| 13 | Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) . |
| 14 | The first and probably the most influential of these grew from small beginnings . |
| 15 | The first of these consisted of two telegrams to the Foreign Office . |
| 16 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 17 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 18 | Arrays of this kind were also used to raise men for the campaigns in France in the 1340s , and the crown 's failure to observe in every instance the legislation of 1327 led to renewed complaints from the commons about the burden borne by the local communities in providing wages and equipment for the troops . |
| 19 | The first major blow in the events of 1902 struck on 5 May , when the crater lake in the Etang Sec burst through the crater walls , and rushed down the valley of the Riviere Blanche . |
| 20 | A party of ten visited between 25th May and 8th June , whilst a similar number went there between 7th and 21st September . |
| 21 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |
| 22 | ‘ The highest recorded weight for a piglet at weaning is 36.7 kg for a boar , one of a litter of nine farrowed on 6 July 1962 … at Kettle Lane Farm , West Ashton , Trowbridge , Wilts . ’ |
| 23 | The station-master and his staff of twelve dealt with 20,099 tons of goods traffic incoming and outgoing in 1898 . |
| 24 | Initially the satellite will carry two TV channels ( out of a maximum of five permitted by international allocation ) both provided by the BBC . |
| 25 | The figures show that in 1990 , there were 90,843 people over the age of 65 supported by local authorities in all types of accommodation ( of whom 87,652 were in their own or other authorities ' homes ) . |
| 26 | Between 1986-95 , they estimate a 33 per cent rise in the number of over-75s hospitalised for short-stay treatment alone . |
| 27 | Of the 1,792 people over the age of 15 questioned by Public Attitude Survey , 7 per cent believed the law should be the exclusive preserve of Christianity . |
| 28 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 29 | Indeed , the first Advertisements Regulation Act of 1907 antedated by two years the first Planning Act . |
| 30 | He ended up with an average of 112.65 followed by English man Dave Milling on 112.11 with Welshman Ian Lougher third on 112 . |