Example sentences of "[vb past] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity cost of resources are therefore relevant costs in decision-making . |
| 2 | The acquisition cost of shares , on the other hand , is not deductible . |
| 3 | Two avenues , in particular , are being explored : the replacement cost of buildings , plant and machinery , based on fire insurance values ; and current cost asset valuations contained in company accounts . |
| 4 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 5 | I drank some of the coffee , which tasted of acorns , and looked at my meal . |
| 6 | Both the print and slide films I used of landscapes turned out well , although my surfing shots did n't have the same richness of colours . |
| 7 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 8 | I longed to know what Eva made of things , what she thought of Jamila , say , and the marriage of Changez . |
| 9 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 10 | Over the centuries a tradition arose of pilgrims going to Croagh Patrick , spending the night on top and hearing Mass at dawn . |
| 11 | Miss Hutton smelled of mothballs and good works . |
| 12 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 13 | It smelled of horses . |
| 14 | The hall smelled of women , too . |
| 15 | He looked tired , but his face was clean and he smelled of pencils . |
| 16 | He smelled of cigars and , fleetingly , of herbs . |
| 17 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 18 | The room smelled of animals and cooking . |
| 19 | He is thinking that Beuno had lived here all his life and no one Sought of things for him to do , or gave parties for him before . |
| 20 | The almost total dependence of the media on the western news agencies Reuters and AFP meant that the image Tanzania received of events in Africa and the rest of the world was largely determined by those organizations . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it seems appropriate that the great days of verba precativa in imperial constitutions should end with Diocletian , for with Constantine came change : he disposed of formalities of language , and from this point on there was no sense in any test to which wordings should confirm . |
| 22 | In March 1986 a BBC monitor report told of demonstrations in Tehran by students and others , ostensibly Gulf Arab nationals , protesting against Kuwaiti and Saudi support for the Iraqi war effort . |
| 23 | Even more horrifying was a recent report aired on CBS which told of Panamanians searching for missing relatives and finding several mass graves containing at least 4,000 people . |
| 24 | The story was obliquely based on the death of Philip 's father and told of miners digging their way to their trapped workmates . |
| 25 | This became a forward base for the NPFL , and reports told of ships being diverted to Buchanan and their cargoes used to replenish the rebel supplies . |
| 26 | The High Court imposed the fine for contempt of court for refusal to obey an order to name the informants who told of links between the RUC and Loyalist gangs . |
| 27 | Inspired by Dante 's Divine Comedy and the sad tale of his love fur Beatrice and by medieval ballads about a knight saving a damsel in distress , their works told of lovers in search of a beloved , a metaphor for the ‘ artist in search of his muse ’ . |
| 28 | Directly opposite was the inner chapel to Rogal Dorn , crafted of blocks of compressed sulphurous amber divided by striations of lapis lazuli — and housing the Fists ' holiest relic : the mighty skeleton , embedded in clear amber contoured to body-form , of the Primarch himself . |
| 29 | Canford Manor in Dorset , built by Sir Charles Barry in 1848–52 , is not unlike St Genevieve , ‘ a gathering as it seemed of galleries , halls , and chapels , mullioned windows , portals of clustered columns , and groups of airy pinnacles and fretwork spires ’ . |
| 30 | Of the late Cdr Boakes , however , we can report that he contested 28 Parliamentary elections , tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Prince Philip for careless driving ( and the Queen for aiding and abetting ) and disapproved of fireworks and homosexuals . |