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 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 ] .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The Gloucestershire team learnt of the new visa rules while distributing aid in Zagreb .
9 The court heard of the early hours of 10 June last year from Donald Beaton , 46 , a lorry driver for 26 years .
10 and that 's the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon … a race made of the right stuff
11 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 to examine the use made of the new powers ;
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The minimum required of the social anthropologist is that he should write the biography of the people he studies .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Yesterday Sunday Life learned of the intended parade and church service .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 With strength born of the alarming change , Theda thrust the heaviness of Benedict 's body from her and staggered out of reach .
26 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 .
27 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 ) .
28 She was small , delicate , like a goddess made of the finest porcelain .
29 It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round .
30 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 .
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