Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shares plunged again yesterday by 63p to 800p and another City expert warned of a gloomy future . |
| 11 | Customs and Excise Commissioners was more akin to the subpoena directed to a witness than the discovery required of an ordinary defendant . |
| 12 | The Prince dreamed of a great Netherlands victory , with himself as its hero . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By nature devysed of a wonderous kynde , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They also complain about the shortage of wood brought about by iron smelting , and ask for opinions on that matter : " … also of any opinion conceived of the great consumpcon of timber and all other kinds of wood made in divers places thereabouts by the Iron Mynes " ( they must refer to wood taken for charcoal burning for the furnaces , the iron mines at this stage would not be using large amounts of timber , but the woodlands were decimated for this reason . |
| 18 | The Gloucestershire team learnt of the new visa rules while distributing aid in Zagreb . |
| 19 | The court heard of the early hours of 10 June last year from Donald Beaton , 46 , a lorry driver for 26 years . |
| 20 | and that 's the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon … a race made of the right stuff |
| 21 | How can the very general , unrestricted claims that constitute our theories be justified on the basis of limited evidence comprised of a limited number of observation statements ? |
| 22 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 23 | He 's believed to be the first person convicted of the new charge of causing death by dangerous driving , which was introduced to crackdown on joyriding . |
| 24 | The Scarman Enquiry reported of the physical conditions in the Dollis Hill premises in which the mail order department then moved , that ‘ save for the mischance with the air-conditioning in a hot summer ’ , they were ‘ excellent ’ . |
| 25 | to examine the use made of the new powers ; |
| 26 | This is reflected in the relative use made of the two methods ; though use of the Hague Evidence Convention is increasing and may ultimately change this pattern . |
| 27 | A number of objections can be raised , however , against both Marx 's method and the subsequent use made of the third department for arms production . |
| 28 | Paris , Ader-Tajan , December 8. 250 antique bronze mirrors from a private collection will be sold in the glittering salons of the Hotel George V. The sale offers a rare opportunity to observe the use made of the same object by different cultures . |
| 29 | Dancer , singer , actress , teacher and diplomat , her work is infused with an anger born of a deep knowledge of pain and oppression — racial and sexual — but much more than that with humour and wisdom . |
| 30 | That is one of the reasons that many of the developing nations are so poor ; money is ploughed into supporting armies and wars with little thought or notice taken of the underlying causes of these situations , such as famine and dissatisfaction . |