Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 2 | In his great house , almost bereft of servants and filled with damps , glooms and moulds , Porua lived like a soldier under siege . |
| 3 | In her private apartments the Empress dressed simply , usually in black , with few or no jewels , for contrary to public belief , she was not particularly fond of clothes and dressed up only when her role demanded it . |
| 4 | The sky overhead was empty of stars and hung like a purple-blue cloth around the ship as it drifted towards the horizon where a fiery red glow lit the gateway to Hell . |
| 5 | He refused , so after a visit to the General Hospital , almost empty of patients and deserted by Burmese staff , with the remaining civilian doctors and sisters about to leave , I set off sadly with several stragglers and drove through the night to Prome . |
| 6 | However , Michael Jenking , the sailing master , was found guilty of negligence and dismissed from the service . |
| 7 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 8 | The density of a gas or vapour is often compared to that of hydrogen and expressed as the relative vapour density |
| 9 | The chromatographic behaviour of the stimulating activity described here ( Fig.3 ) strictly correlates with that of hTFIIA as outlined by Waldschmidt and Seifart ( 12 ) . |
| 10 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 11 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 12 | With the reduction in cost of computer memory it is now possible to convert speech into digital information which is then compressed many hundreds of times and stored in a ROM . |
| 13 | For the recipient to increase as much of X as shown at point 7 , it would be necessary for income to be increased to point 9 on the income consumption curve . |
| 14 | But we became the firmest of friends and kept in touch by letter afterwards until she sadly died . |
| 15 | His landlady was nervous of strangers and called through the door , ‘ I 'm sorry , Mr Ramsey is out . ’ |
| 16 | Rinuccini 's next favola for music , a Euridice with a happy ending , was composed by Peri ( but included some pieces by Caccini which are duly acknowledged in the preface ) for the wedding of Maria de' Medici to Henry IV of France and performed in the Pitti Palace on 6 October 1600 . |
| 17 | St Paul 's is only a short walk from Fleet Street but it is uphill and after her diversion to the canteen Rain was short of time and forced to hurry . |
| 18 | Indeed they argued that girls developed sub-cultures which were more passive and marginal than those of boys and involved doing things such as sitting around in their bedrooms worshipping pop stars . |
| 19 | At Stirling , he created the so-called palace block , with exteriors modelled on French palace architecture like those of Falkland and adorned with statues ranging from dignified sculpture to the grotesque — the latter seen in the splendid representation of the king himself . |
| 20 | These thermae were larger than those of Caracalla and accommodated 3200 bathers ; they were very similar in design . |
| 21 | He refused to consecrate new bishops independent of Rome as demanded by the Chinese authorities from April 1958 , and was arrested . |
| 22 | There was a further moment of hesitation , then she said : 'He flew to Geneva on Friday the fourth of November and returned on Monday the fourteenth . ’ |
| 23 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |
| 24 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 25 | She looked down at her frayed jeans and dirty trainers : the spongy shoes were full of water and squelched whenever she walked . |
| 26 | Now she left with plastic bags full of washing and returned after lunch the next day with Hugh 's shirts , Molly 's dresses and the children 's T-shirts and jeans beautifully ironed . |
| 27 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 28 | And for tea , how about treating your guests to a slice of Tesco Traditionally Made Dundee Cake — a rich , moist fruit cake full of cherries and topped with almonds . |
| 29 | It was not at all surprising that the main road to Poltava town near Makarenko 's colony was full of travellers and plagued by bandits . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Jane , what is it ? ’ he asked , when we had left the room full of guests and gone into the library . |