Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 3 | John Evelyn made little of the episode . |
| 4 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 5 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 6 | we got neither of the free press this week |
| 7 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
| 8 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |
| 9 | They even coloured some of the mixture with saffron to make a ‘ yolk ’ , then they carefully filled the shells before baking them in the ashes of the cooking fire . |
| 10 | More and more people went to hear this phenomenon in a university of the crudest fundap 25 mentalism , which horrified some of the dons as a caricature of Christianity . |
| 11 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 12 | This assuaged some of the fears expressed by managers and engineers in the existing supply undertakings about possible over-centralisation of power in a nationalised undertaking . |
| 13 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 14 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 15 | A compromise agreement between the opposition and the leadership , reported on April 22 on Tajik radio , met some of the opposition 's demands , including representation on the Constitutional Commission , investigation of Ikramov 's and Navjuvanov 's cases and discussion of a motion put forward on April 13 by the Gorny Badakhshan autonomous oblast ( region ) Supreme Soviet and prompted by local demonstrations , to upgrade the region into the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic . |
| 16 | With dangerous calm he spooned some of the material on to his plate , raised a forkful and began to chew slowly . |
| 17 | The chairman of the CITB , Sir Clifford Chetwood , made a statement in July this year in which he announced some of the board 's projects to stimulate training . |
| 18 | It had been the summer home of the Russian monarchy since 1716 and housed some of the greatest imperial palaces and parks in Russian history . |
| 19 | He laid some of the foundations of the Newtonian mechanics that was to replace Aristotle 's . |
| 20 | LOUISE BOWEN asked some of the other conference speakers to cast modesty aside and reveal the reasons for their success . |
| 21 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 22 | So we asked some of the other Liverpool stores to come up with their definition of Merseystyle … |
| 23 | De Niro 's lengthy career began in small theatre productions at the start of the Sixties , and has included two Academy Awards ( for Raging Bull and The Godfather II ) and a collaboration with Martin Scorsese which produced some of the best films to come out of the ‘ New Hollywood ’ of the Seventies . |
| 24 | The albums ‘ American Prayer ’ and ‘ LA Woman ’ produced some of the best work he ever did , and I think in a sense he died for his poetry . |
| 25 | Following the issue of a precept in July 1990 , the taxpayer , an accountant , produced some of the information which it required shortly before the Commissioners ' hearing . |
| 26 | Bald , that was , but for grass and brambles , which nevertheless produced some of the most luscious and well-flavoured blackberries I have ever tasted . |
| 27 | I felt very creative when I was pregnant , very calm and at ease and think that as a result , I produced some of the best work that I have ever done . ’ |
| 28 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 29 | Both were given a free hand to indulge their imagination and produced some of the wittiest and talked about windows in London , several of which featured life-sized stuffed animals or eye-catching visual puns . |
| 30 | It also produced some of the best journalism on the underground and the above ground — written in the 1960s . |