Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vatican spoke of ‘ a new and grave obstacle to the process of reconciliation . ’ |
| 2 | A surgeon testifying before the ICI told of wearing ‘ armoured masks ’ after learning that some of the injured had been shot with bullets designed to re-explode . |
| 3 | Reports in mid-July indicated that the government had intensified its campaign against members of the PPP suspected of terrorism . |
| 4 | The NPRC consisted of 23 members who , an NPRC statement said , represented all the country 's ethnic groups . |
| 5 | But even while the Shah shrugged of such schemes , saying that this was not 1953 he also seemed to feel that the allies who had saved him then had somehow betrayed him now . |
| 6 | According to Beamish , the IFL knew of three remedies to the Jewish question : to kill them , sterilize them or segregate them . |
| 7 | Many of the projects taken over on nationalisation were , moreover , either wholly or partly in the hands of civil and electrical engineering consultants , whom the BEA assured of continuing support for the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | I ca n't hear the Playhouse spoke of without trembling ; and shall not dare to look into a News-paper , for fear of meeting with the Name of Cibber |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , Henry II wished to maintain that the Vexin belonged of old to Normandy and was therefore his by hereditary right , it was safer not to confuse the issue by marrying Alice to one of his sons . |
| 10 | In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol . |
| 11 | In 1987 , 40,187 people in the UK died of lung cancer [ 1 ] . |
| 12 | Claiming that Zimbabweans in Mozambican uniforms were operating in 52 other places ( in seven of Mozambique 's 11 provinces ) , the MNR complained of an alleged lack of impartiality on the part of the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) set up to monitor the Rome agreement . |
| 13 | By May 1966 the Council agreed to treat teacher education , because of the existing roles of the universities and institutes of education , ‘ with care and circumspection ’ , and the Council 's Chairman was to keep the CVCP informed of developments . |
| 14 | The CSCE warned of sterner action by the international community unless Serbian policies changed . |
| 15 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 16 | The cultural position being defended by the NVALA consisted of a society governed by a religious moral consensus and also , crucially , built on the back of the traditional nuclear family . |
| 17 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 18 | The LTE consisted of persons appointed by the GLC with the function of implementing the policies of the GLC ( section 4 ) . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 20 | The Cid sickened of the malady of which he died . |
| 21 | Once the DTI knew of the Stock Exchange 's findings in July 1987 , there was no excuse for delay . |
| 22 | The election proceeded in an atmosphere relatively free of violence , although the SLFP complained of fraud and of UNP manipulation of the government-controlled media . |
| 23 | Both the city and the CBI were strongly critical of the budget : Sir Terence Beckett of the CBI spoke of the need to have a ‘ bare-knuckle fight ’ with the government , though this aggressive posture later disappeared . |
| 24 | When analysed by SDS-PAGE , the VLPs consisted of four major BTV structural proteins ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 25 | Doubts were raised over the course of events during the revolution , with the NSF accused of being already in existence six months before Dec. 22 , waiting in the wings and " stealing " the revolution from those who made it . |
| 26 | The Examiner spoke of his ‘ ability to discover players who will earn laurels for themselves and their club ; indeed , his discrimination in the capture of budding players has been described as uncanny ’ . |
| 27 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 28 | Last week , the RUC warned of an upsurge in trailer thefts in the North West . |
| 29 | The UNO consisted of 14 parties with widely differing ideologies ranging from conservatives and Christian democrats to and communists , formed in 1989 to oppose the Sandinistas [ see p. 36681 ] . |