Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 2 | This consists of the two character LIFESPAN process Id as specified in the configuration file , concatenated with the four digit item number previously entered by the Offline Manager using option 9.3.0 . |
| 3 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) concluded that the characters of the disk are subject to a number of variations , especially occurrence of spines , differences in scaling , but that features of the oral frame are sufficiently constant to easily identify this species . |
| 4 | All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church . |
| 5 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 6 | TABLE 9 FEATURES OF THE HYPERKINETIC SYNDROME ( HYPERACTIVITY ) |
| 7 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |
| 8 | All that remains of the Saussurean model is the primacy of language and an emphasis on the signifier , both of which are even more strongly asserted here than in poetics . |
| 9 | Part III is all that remains of the 1964 Act . |
| 10 | Under his leadership , the heavyweight investigative team was to produce reports which were a cross between the old Sunday Times Insight team and the occasional ‘ Shock Issues ’ which are all that remains of the old Mirror . |
| 11 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 12 | In the VSEL yard a brass bell hangs in a museum of shipbuilding , all that remains of the original HMS Vanguard which was sunk in Scapa Flow . |
| 13 | Here the load of a river is mainly mud and sand which is almost all that remains of the larger stones and boulders which have bounced and trundled many kilometres down river . |
| 14 | THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION : Smashed and mangled metal around the battered tailplane is all that remains of the doomed airbus in which 167 people were killed |
| 15 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |