Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen smelled of sour milk and woodsmoke . |
| 2 | The car smelled of fresh plastic . |
| 3 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 4 | Yet the Bahia Paraiso tragedy seemed of little consequence compared with the disaster which occurred in northern polar waters only weeks later . |
| 5 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 6 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 7 | The end gates to the upper channels consisted of lattice-frame portcullises , exactly like those on the tanks . |
| 8 | Whereas before the test data consisted of 3 domains , with a test document of 200 words each , there are now 15 domains , each document being at least 500 words in length . |
| 9 | In the late 1980s we can review the situation in my two localities in terms of being ‘ after the planners ’ , because the Hailsham programme consisted of planned accommodation with social change in the name of modernization and social progress . |
| 10 | Hess mistakenly thought that the oceanic crust consisted of altered peridotite , the material of the mantle itself . |
| 11 | The new style review consisted of three components : |
| 12 | The causal sequences consisted of three events : a puppet dropped a marble down one runway , then Jack jumped , and then another puppet dropped a marble down the other runway . |
| 13 | The experiment consisted of two phases , first a judgment phase and then a recognition phase , each phase lasted approximately 25 minutes in total . |
| 14 | The experiment consisted of two phases in which subjects watched films , first a judgment phase and second a recognition phase , the first phase lasted approximately 20 minutes , the second phase approximately 40 minutes . |
| 15 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |
| 16 | Their mockery consisted of two taunts : |
| 17 | By 1761 the artillery consisted of 31 field companies , totalling 3200 officers and men ; the former , unlike their infantry and cavalry colleagues , did not have to purchase their commissions but were appointed and promoted solely on merit , and the British artillery was soon recognised as the best in the world . |
| 18 | The most striking non-deglutitive motility pattern we found in this group of normal subjects consisted of repetitive bursts of non-sequential pressure peaks in the smooth muscle of the oesophagus . |
| 19 | The study consisted of 68 patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection . |
| 20 | The main study consisted of two phases as follows : |
| 21 | The experimental service in this study consisted of task-centred casework ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) provided by social workers . |
| 22 | What was left of their election reporting consisted of brief clips from the itineraries of the party leaders . |
| 23 | The practice consisted of two offices which were run independently by B and W respectively . |
| 24 | Initially called ‘ L Detachment SAS Brigade ’ , this force consisted of seven officers and sixty other ranks . |
| 25 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 26 | I wonder what Eric Clapton thought of that part of Nirvana 's performance ? |
| 27 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 28 | Miklós spoke of these matters dispassionately , any hint of feeling only emerging as scorn for the communist establishment . |
| 29 | Lord Hailsham spoke of elective dictatorship . |
| 30 | The inspectors spoke of poor marks especially in English and mathematics . |