Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Nikon 's opponents , however , the changes not only smacked of foreign heresy but seemed to threaten the whole meaning of the liturgy , to break the link between the service and the faith . |
| 2 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 3 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 4 | We only spoke of happy things … ’ |
| 5 | But it only remained of crucial importance to that small minority of bigoted constables who classify all Catholics as equally evil and nefarious . |
| 6 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 7 | The gold coinage of the period was suffering a considerable debasement ( whereby the alloy progressively consisted of less gold and more silver ) , and the metal analysis of the royal pieces has allowed the stages of this debasement to be dated . |
| 8 | The study population thus consisted of 27 patients aged from nine to 69 months . |
| 9 | ‘ Or else it just died of old age and the owners dumped it . |
| 10 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 11 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 12 | HOWEVER MUCH THE hotel maid sprinkled her lemon scouring powder , the salle de bains ( so designated by a chipped blue-and-white oval enamel plaque ) still smelled of stagnant drains , as if it functioned as an extension of the narrow street outside , where a section of the gutter exuded a steady reek of staleness , sweetish-sour , and not entirely unpleasant to Miranda . |
| 13 | The little shed still smelled of those days when it had been used . |
| 14 | The periodic convulsions that resulted under ‘ système D ’ usually came of good intentions . |
| 15 | To Nigel 's disappointment , nothing ever came of these pick-ups . |
| 16 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 17 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 18 | With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale . |
| 19 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 20 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 21 | Six patients still complained of loose motions . |
| 22 | They are more concerned with the lost and how best to win them than with maintaining traditions : who ever dreamt of Anglican ethos in a church meeting in a pub anyway ? |
| 23 | He once said of this discovery : |
| 24 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 25 | This is a 170g ( 6oz ) unit , also made of flat strip aluminium , and arranged for two axis presetting . |
| 26 | One was the detestation by the liberally oriented of religious paternalism , a mild form of anti-clericalism . |
| 27 | I also learnt of untoward knock on effects and serious concerns about fragmentation and dis-enfranchisement . |
| 28 | However , two millworkers ' cottages , that formerly consisted of three storeys , each of a single room , stand close by , having been converted in the late '50s . |
| 29 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 30 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |