Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
| 2 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
| 3 | ‘ When you 've lived through 16 general elections and fought eight of them , you develop an instinct , ’ says the modest Deedes , opening a bottle of champagne . |
| 4 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 5 | What is there about the river terrace site in the drawing which met each of Chief Onlaf 's requirements ? |
| 6 | The latter , in addition to recording the histories of Anglo-Saxon kings and churchmen , chronicled that of Glastonbury Abbey at the request of its monks , and several other monasteries , including Abingdon , Ely , Evesham , Peterborough and Ramsey , also had histories written at about this time . |
| 7 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 8 | In the context of the mid-1970s and later , this meant that the DoE 's role increasingly became that of policing the spending of local governments . |
| 9 | Its feathers were turquoise and tipped with crimson , and towards sunset each day its beaked profile became that of Osiris , looking towards the Nile . |
| 10 | Kenya 's dilemma then became that of finding how to make foreigners welcome whilst forcing them to bring their own capital . |
| 11 | Harvard had dealt in 2 million shares by early afternoon , and the main problem became that of finding sellers to match buying orders from account traders , i.e. investors who were buying then selling the shares quickly in the hope of making an instant profit . |
| 12 | His voice sank and became that of a sleep-talker . |
| 13 | As his furniture workshops expanded Gimson was less able to take part in the actual processes of making : his chief role became that of director and designer . |
| 14 | His face became that of his victim . |
| 15 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 16 | They both went into the Scout 's and the Rangers and Edie made each of them do their own bed , do their bedrooms on Saturday 's |
| 17 | It was a kind of joke , but when their eyes met neither of them smiled . |
| 18 | As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed . |
| 19 | He was soon proved right , as the numbers of those listening to him in England equalled two-thirds of the audience for the BBC news . |
| 20 | God , she 'ad eight of I had eight of them . |
| 21 | As we descended through the darkness into Cuzco on an endless series of switchbacks , their daughter asked each of us to sing a song for her from our own countries . |
| 22 | Interpreting Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson 's ideas literally , Whitaker asked each of his ‘ historical ’ authors to include sequences with famous figures of the past : Nero , Napoleon , Marco Polo and so on . |
| 23 | After we had docked , a representative of Inflot , the Russian equivalent of Trinity House , apologetically asked each of us to sign more documents . |
| 24 | His curiosity about the American South equalled that of Mark Twain , who saw in Natchez both the ‘ drinking , carousing , fisticuffing … riff-raff of the river ’ and the agreeable life of the cotton-rich people who lived in Natchez-on-the-hill . |
| 25 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 26 | The ninth-wicket stand of 183 equalled that of debonair Chris Greetham and that purveyor of suicidal singles , Harold Stephenson , at Weston in 1963 . |
| 27 | She 'ad eleven of them yesterday . |
| 28 | When they helped her up , blood was streaming from her face and hands , and although Muriella made little of it , Elizabeth insisted they had to bathe the scrapes . |
| 29 | John Evelyn made little of the episode . |
| 30 | The marriage between Robert the Pious 's daughter and the count of Nevers brought obvious political gain to the king because it strengthened the royal hold upon Burgundy ; the count on the other hand gained only temporary advantage , and subsequent generations in Nevers made little of their royal connection . |