Example sentences of "of [adj] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind whipped the rags of burned and sundered clothes on its greatly enlarged body . |
| 2 | We managed to acquire a large bag of Complete and made a surprise lunchtime presentation . |
| 3 | Even in the case of specific or ascertained goods the court will not make such an order unless damages for non-delivery would not lie an adequate remedy . |
| 4 | It was very embarrassing and I was shocked at this behaviour from a person I had thought of as kind of shy and introverted . ’ |
| 5 | The word click is onomatopoeic in itself , and the neat , abrupt quality of the sound it signifies is echoed in the final /t/ consonance of discreet and shut , and by the initial /d/ alliteration of discreet and door . |
| 6 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 7 | Gen. Sagadat Nurmagambetov , chair of the Committee [ see p. 38538 for his appointment in October 1991 , when he was initially described as Defence Minister ] , was promoted to the rank of Col.-Gen. and appointed Kazakhstan 's Defence Minister . |
| 8 | Victor Saville joined together with the story editor of Gaumont-British and worked out that filmmakers who took all the BBFC 's rules seriously would n't be able to make Cinderella . |
| 9 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 10 | They have consistently found large differences between comparable groups of unemployed and employed people in cross sectional surveys , as I do in my Brighton study ( even when those who lost their jobs through illness are excluded ) . |
| 11 | The open air fish market does brisk business every morning except Sunday and Monday and is well worth a visit for its display of fresh and smoked specialities , as well as a huge range of shellfish . |
| 12 | The father of a friend of mine who went to visit relatives in Paris told us that he did not know a word of French but spoke the Parmigiano dialect all the time and got on very well . |
| 13 | The date of last pregnancy was not known in some women because the dates of spontaneous and induced abortions and of ectopic pregnancies were not recorded before entry to the study . |
| 14 | Although there is no shortage of childless couples in Britain , there is a shortage of couples prepared to adopt or foster handicapped children , and as a result the numbers of fostered and adopted children remain small . |
| 15 | According to the government White Paper in 1971 , there were only around one hundred mentally handicapped children with foster parents or in private lodgings , and the numbers of fostered and adopted children with mental handicap are still believed to be very small . |
| 16 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 17 | Figure 11.8 Life expectancy in the world in 1984 : boxplots of raw and transformed data |
| 18 | More questionable , unless there is evidence , is the attribution of uplifted and dissected plateaus to Triassic erosion , burial and later excavation . |
| 19 | This small storage room is full of old and rotted roots and tubers , sacks of rotted and musty-smelling grain , barrels of reeking and vinegary wine and beer , jars of moulded fruits , and suchlike . |
| 20 | Ben Sira praised the fathers of old and described the High Priest Simon son of Jochanan in his majestic appearance when he went up to the altar ( 50.11 ) . |
| 21 | In tests with intragastric administration of bFGF , the peptide was dissolved in 1 ml of saline and instilled into the stomach via the cannula of the gastric fistula and the fistula was closed for 30 minutes . |
| 22 | Fish fried in suitable oil ( those oils consisting of mono-unsaturated or polyunsaturated fats are best ) |
| 23 | Owen took over from cartographers the convention that where outlines are unknown one should just dot them in ; so his pictures of fossil bones show conjectural restoration of broken or lost pieces . |
| 24 | In academic and special libraries , the information content of books , and the way the content is organized , by far outweigh other considerations ( perusal of duplicated or variotyped documents being an occupational penance of the research worker ) . |
| 25 | The stance consisted of a couple of sprouting pegs but little else ; Mick 's home while it was my turn to try to link unlikely sequences of free and aided moves up the next 40 metres . |
| 26 | free ( P ) denotes the set of all variables appearing free in P bound ( P ) denotes the set of all variable appearing bound in P ( Similar notions of free and bound occurrences can be defined for channels . ) |
| 27 | We live , write and speak today in a world of free and democratized languages ; the complex and multilevelled hierarchy of discourses , forms , images , styles that used to permeate the entire system of official language and official consciousness was swept away by the linguistic revolutions of the Renaissance … . |
| 28 | Certainly in modern statistical studies , differences between children of inbred and outbred marriages can be scarcely detectable , particularly when the inbred marriages occur in communities where spouses are traditionally at least first-cousins ( e.g. Rao & Inbaraj , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | They were the same , of course , that rich shade of brown that lightened and darkened as his mood changed . |
| 30 | In Ixora Trading Incorporated v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 FSR 251 Mummery J struck out the plaintiffs ' writ and statement of claim which , inter alia , alleged breaches of express and implied duties of confidence . |