Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] of the [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Gloucestershire team learnt of the new visa rules while distributing aid in Zagreb . |
| 8 | The court heard of the early hours of 10 June last year from Donald Beaton , 46 , a lorry driver for 26 years . |
| 9 | and that 's the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon … a race made of the right stuff |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | to examine the use made of the new powers ; |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The minimum required of the social anthropologist is that he should write the biography of the people he studies . |
| 15 | As the tables around us tucked into bacon and eggs , an alarming story unfolded of the true nature of Diana 's life inside Kensington Palace . |
| 16 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 17 | Yesterday Sunday Life learned of the intended parade and church service . |
| 18 | Yet another complicating factor is that the account given of the generic team 's work with elderly clients is bound to be only a partial exemplification of whatever advantages may be claimed for the generic model , whether of professional practice or of staff development . |
| 19 | The limited , but in permissive terms essential , role of government in the supply of what later ages were to know as " social overhead capital " must be seen in the context of the close identification the political nation made of the public interest with that of property owners . |
| 20 | With employment at L1 and wages at W1 the imposition of a payroll contribution on employees is equivalent to a reduction in the net wage offered of the vertical distance S1S2 . |
| 21 | With strength born of the alarming change , Theda thrust the heaviness of Benedict 's body from her and staggered out of reach . |
| 22 | In a letter to the head of the air staff secretariat at Whitehall , the Killin team leader , Billy Stitt , said that the provision of helicopters had been based solely on the military requirement for crashed aircraft and the maritime role , with no account taken of the ever-growing number of people suffering serious injury on Scottish mountains . |
| 23 | The number of firms is larger , the smaller fixed costs ( C ) relative to the total sales ( δM ) , the greater the preference for variety ( ) , and the more account taken of the indirect effect ( γ ) . |
| 24 | This is not to use the term ‘ romantic ’ in the pejorative sense in which it must be used when speaking of the film made of The Happy Return , in which Lady Barbara , envisaged as a coy , magazine-cover blonde ( and without the hereditary Wellesley nose ) fluttered her eyelashes at Gregory Peck as an equally improbable Hornblower . |
| 25 | It is built of glowing limestone , known as Coral Rag , a stone made of the fossilized remains of coral and other shells . |
| 26 | One field officer observed of the analytical results from a sewage treatment works , notorious in the area for its poor performance , that ‘ if you get anything below 80 [ BOD ] you start suspecting your own lab ’ . |
| 27 | Activity was such that the Ladies resumed sending their golf reports to The Times , Sporting Life and Gentlewoman and the Standard warned of the early re-introduction of the entrance fee . |
| 28 | Of these bills of lading , there is commonly three bills of one tenor made of the whole ship 's lading , or of many particular parcels of goods , if there be many laders ; and the mark of the goods must therein be expressed , and of whom received , and to whom to be delivered . |
| 29 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 30 | Nutty , picturing in her mind the agility required of the cross-country performer , ground her teeth with frustration . |