Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site was only advertised locally and my company only heard of the proposed sale via the foreman of a site in the same vicinity . |
| 2 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 3 | We are constantly reminded of the appalling condition of our houses . |
| 4 | A : There 's too much made of the whole dog show business . |
| 5 | We thank you all for the great success you have all made of the 1985 Appeal . |
| 6 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher was apparently informed of the French decision during the Strasbourg session on monetary union last weekend and it may well have encouraged her to believe that Britain 's European partners are now ready to take the difficult decisions which are a prelude to monetary union . |
| 8 | It revealed most black and ethnic minority households interviewed in south east Hampshire had not heard of the local council 's SSD . |
| 9 | In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 10 | The more natural meaning seems to me to be , ‘ at starting in the profession , ’ for it will be observed that these words are used by the testator in reciting a prior promise made when the testator had not heard of the proposed marriage with Ellen Nicholl , or , so far as appears , heard of any proposed marriage . |
| 11 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 12 | But it was the unexpected shots that would provide the spice to the story — like the ones she had just made of the little midinette enthusing as she saw the dress she 'd sweated blood for , if not created , come down the catwalk to the roar of applause . |
| 13 | She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted . |
| 14 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
| 15 | I 've just thought of the perfect thing to lend you . ’ |
| 16 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 17 | Jane had ‘ missed her first ’ and went down from university with only a two-one in English Language and Literature , thus deprived of the academic career she had coveted with cowardice . |
| 18 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 19 | The De Brazza is one of the Old World 's largest monkeys , and the most richly coloured of the African forest monkeys known as guenons . |
| 20 | The most widely sold of the French salami in the UK are the plump , sweet Jesus de Lyon and the Arles , from the gastronomically famed region of that name . |
| 21 | I mean that 's what cut straight the way across that it was , it was all and my aunt she used to live by All Saints West Bromwich , we never used , we never went to see them we used to walk it down the road past the Boars Head onto the Navigation Inn , and up by the Sandlow and she used to live opposite er All Saints Church in West Bromwich , and erm coming back we should come back round midnight you know and er have you ever heard of the Whirly Gang ? |
| 22 | But no one there had ever heard of the Arektenje area of Jaffa where the newly married Damiani had bought his home . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you ever heard of the Devenish case ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Ever heard of the Trojan horse , Bicker ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Have you ever heard of the Slavonic banquet ? ’ she said . |
| 26 | Ever heard of the big warehouse ? |
| 27 | On CD at present there are discs by Haitink , Järvi and Maxim Shostakovich among others , all of them sonically impressive but not always possessed of the brooding tension which Rostropovich brings to the first movement . |
| 28 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
| 29 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |
| 30 | Having early disposed of the false idea that in the Middle Ages people believed in a flat earth , Lewis tells us to look at the sky itself . |