Example sentences of "of [adj] [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 2 | And the outcome of that was that by the time the boys reached the hut where they lived with their grandfather , they had clean forgotten what the sun-god told them to do . |
| 3 | The result of that was that by the time I 'd rushed across the road , dashed up the stair well found the place , dashed up the stairs , I was out of breath and er had n't composed myself and I just res resembled a quivering blob that er |
| 4 | An example of this is that under most standard forms the supervising officer has wide-ranging powers to issue instructions . |
| 5 | The implication of this is that in some kinds of library the librarian acknowledges a degree of responsibility to his users , who may not themselves know whether a particular item contains reliable information . |
| 6 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 7 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |
| 8 | In August 1317 seven bishops were represented on the king 's mission to Lancaster , and a few months later ten bishops from the southern province attended a council meeting to resolve the political dispute ; one outcome of this was that in January 1318 the bishop of Norwich negotiated with Lancaster . |
| 9 | The consequence of this was that by the end of the decade the Unilever detergent and one other brand had captured 90 per cent of the market in Barbados . |
| 10 | Perhaps the strangest think of all about the garotting panic of 1862 was that in the haste to describe the awful contours of the ‘ new ’ crime , the equally ‘ unprecedented ’ alarms of 1856 were almost entirely forgotten , although the same complaints and accusations had been well rehearsed . |
| 11 | Briefly , the effect of these is that in those areas where a structure plan comes into force , blight caused by either the structure plan or the previous development plan is covered by the planning blight provisions until a local plan allocating land succeeds the old development plan . |
| 12 | Such great open-air markets can be seen at Northampton , Newark and Leicester , for example , and most notable of all was that at Nottingham , where the vast triangular market place covers five-and-a-half acres and was once even larger . |
| 13 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 14 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |