Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 2 | Vols. 1 & 2 consist of the two Janźček Cypresses ( ) and the two Smetana Quartets with some Dvořák miniatures ) . |
| 3 | Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition . |
| 4 | The Chipping Norton edition of the Oxford Times features Susan Cook , an eighteen year old fashion student from Faringdon , who was runner up in a national competition for young deaf achiever of the year . |
| 5 | The alleged contraventions of section 47 consist of the making of misleading statements for the purpose of inducing persons to enter into investment transactions . |
| 6 | I am a tainted wether of the flock , … meetest for death |
| 7 | Columns 1–3 are mutually exclusive , but any of these border of the mandible ( column 4 . ) |
| 8 | These consist of the two Archbishops ( of York and Canterbury ) , the three senior bishops ( of London , Durham and Winchester ) plus 21 others . |
| 9 | These consist of the treatment of dominant firm monopolies , restrictive practices and mergers . |
| 10 | These consist of the HOB1 and HOB2 motifs ( 30 ) and regions A1 and A2 ( 29 ) . |
| 11 | The importance of the study of elites , as a way of assessing political attitudes and change , is well established , but there is little know of the social background of the members of Indonesia 's parliamentary bodies , the People 's Representative Council and the Supreme Deliberative Assembly . |
| 12 | To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so . |
| 13 | The alleged contraventions of section 57 consist of the publication of investment advertisements whose contents had not been approved as required by the Act . |
| 14 | We all know of the dramatic effects of the venoms of snakes and spiders , the savage stings of wasps and jellyfish and the virulent poisons of scorpions and stingrays , but there are many other examples in the animal kingdom and some of them are even more lethal . |
| 15 | We all know of the hon. Gentleman 's concern for environmental protection and for tropical and rain forests , but the article in The Guardian — I stress , The Guardian — drew attention to the fact that the proposal was to take only 20 cu m of wood per hectare , which is only eight trees , every 20 years . |
| 16 | The televised ceremony was attacked by army troops and over 40 people killed , to the irrevocable discredit of the regime . |
| 17 | How many think of the credit column . |
| 18 | The lasting image many have of the city is the concrete cows , a tongue-in-cheek parting gift from a local artist . |
| 19 | ‘ It was one of those spur of the moment things , ’ giggles vocalist Dot in recollection . |
| 20 | For a taster of what 's available send of the Vernon Geranium catalogue ( cost £1 ) . |
| 21 | Müncheberg 's successful strafe of the Sunderland at Kalafrana on 27th. , O.K.W. claimed that fighters destroyed two more of these flying boats in similar circumstances next day . |
| 22 | The new version has involved a complete rewrite of the software to give advanced features which are usually only found in Windows and desk-top publishing programmes . |
| 23 | Coenwulf now wanted London to supersede both Lichfield and Canterbury as the single metropolitan see of the southern province in accordance with the plan of Pope Gregory I , and was therefore concerned to minimize any argument for more than one archbishopric based on territorial extent ; Pope Leo , on the other hand , was anxious to disassociate the papacy and his predecessor , Hadrian I , from complicity with Offa in acting against Canterbury for so base a reason as Offa 's antagonism to the people of Kent . |