Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has a wealth of things to do and see ; historic monuments , a harbour , and all the amenities expected of a modern city including extensive sports facilities , art galleries , theatres and museums . |
| 2 | The European Council took " a most serious view of accusations against Libyan nationals " in connection with the 1988 and 1989 Lockerbie and UTI airliner bombings [ see p. 38692 ] and noted and fully endorsed " the demands made of the Libyan authorities by the governments of France , the UK and the United States on Nov. 27 " [ see p. 38599 ] . |
| 3 | Large-scale reconstruction took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and among interesting buildings of the later period is a bonded warehouse built of the local limestone in 1830 . |
| 4 | The House of Lords held that the plaintiff 's relationship with the committee conferred on him private law rights to remuneration in accordance with his statutory terms of service : that a litigant possessed of a private law right could seek to enforce that right by ordinary action notwithstanding that the proceedings would involve a challenge to a public law decision ; and that accordingly the action brought by the plaintiff in the Queen 's Bench Division did not constitute an abuse of process . |
| 5 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 6 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 8 | This last phrase — ‘ no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time ’ — my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly . |
| 9 | Instead of being informed by the prospecting company , Navan Resources , islanders learned of a possible gold mine on their island through hearing an item , based on a newspaper report , on the Gay Byrne radio show . |
| 10 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 11 | The type of injury/illness should be considered in conjunction with the Policyholder 's occupation and an assessment made of the likely disability period e.g. a builder 's labourer with a broken leg will in most cases be off work longer than an office worker with the same injury . |
| 12 | He then made a full written confession and was then shown the notes made of the earlier oral admissions ( which he refused to sign ; the police however failed to record the refusal in the pocket book though it was recorded in the custody record . ) |
| 13 | The cold and windless afternoon made of the mellow brick and pastel grass a perfect conspiracy of pretension and nature , an exact depiction of everything Harry most loved and loathed in his homeland . |
| 14 | About his waist he wore an elegant ta lien , or girdle pouch , the border a thick band of russet , the twin heart-shaped pockets made of a soft peach cloth , the details of trees , butterflies and flowers picked out in emerald green and blue and gold . |
| 15 | A few years earlier the judge observed of a 17-year-old girl who was raped by a motorist with whom she hitched a lift after being stranded following a party , that ‘ the victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence ’ 1 . |
| 16 | Finally , Wirksworth Quarry has another new addition from the Suzi Sammutt/Geoff Hornby team — The Evolution of Micadia E1 5b is the slim pillar 30 feet left of the Crinoid Cruise . |
| 17 | The territory has a large measure of self-government , with the Governor presiding over an Executive Council composed of the Chief Minister , the Attorney General and three other ministers drawn from the Legislative Council , which comprises nine elected members , the Speaker and the Attorney General . |
| 18 | Essentially , their form was one of a council composed of an equal number of representatives of employers and organised workmen , sometimes with an independent chairman and normally with inbuilt arbitration in case of disputes . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , a High Court judge warned of a serious problem because of a log-jam of refugee cases as he gave leave for two of them to seek judicial review of Home Office decisions to refuse them asylum . |
| 20 | Shares plunged again yesterday by 63p to 800p and another City expert warned of a gloomy future . |
| 21 | Customs and Excise Commissioners was more akin to the subpoena directed to a witness than the discovery required of an ordinary defendant . |
| 22 | The Prince dreamed of a great Netherlands victory , with himself as its hero . |
| 23 | All the windows had roller blinds made of a dark-green fabric so tough that the years of neglect had done nothing to decay or even damage them . |
| 24 | Even in Clare 's own country , the railway has been absorbed into the landscape , and one can enjoy the consequent pleasure of trundling through Rutland in a stopping-train on a fine summer morning : the barley fields shaking in the wind , the slow sedgy streams with their willows shading meditative cattle , the elegant limestone spires across the meadows , the early Victorian stations built of the sheep-grey Ketton stone and still unaltered , the warm brown roofs of the villages half buried in the trees , and the summer light flashing everywhere . |
| 25 | Essex , one of the new universities born of the last years of Macmillan 's rule , was occupied . |
| 26 | During the year , the group disposed of the entire share capital of Model Developments Ltd as part of the policy of improving profit ; ability of the group . |
| 27 | By nature devysed of a wonderous kynde , |
| 28 | Patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing any major surgical procedure should be assessed by having radiographs taken of the cervical spine in flexion and extension . |
| 29 | For a chain molecule composed of a large number of segments , movement of the complete molecule depends on the co-operative movement of all the segments , and as stress-relaxation depends on the number of ways the molecule can regain its most probable conformation , each possible co-ordinated movement is treated as a mode of motion with a characteristic relaxation time . |
| 30 | They may not be big in the rave scene but with over ten thousand tickets already sold this is one band assured of a good party . |