Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall . |
| 2 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 3 | As a result , the cocoa exporters cut down the use of the toxic pills . |
| 4 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 5 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 6 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 7 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 8 | They needed weapons badly so the Iraqis brought in a group of people including me . |
| 9 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 10 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 11 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 12 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 13 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 14 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 15 | In any case , the darkness and the Balaclava cut down the risk of recognition . |
| 16 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
| 17 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 18 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 19 | The care taken over the disposal of the dead indicates a deeply held conviction that , provided the appropriate steps were taken , death could be regarded as a transitional state . |
| 20 | A shot taken on the set of Britain 's first sound film in 1929 . |
| 21 | As young waitresses brought in a series of unfamiliar hot dishes , our hosts used their own chopsticks to fill our bowls again and again . |
| 22 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 23 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 24 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 25 | Once past this hurdle , there came the committee stage taken on the floor of the House , when detailed amendments could be moved clause by clause , and again all amendments had to be taken and this stage went on until each had been dealt with . |
| 26 | She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l . |