Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vases of different shapes and sizes lay beside pebbles , weavings , ancient carvings and many other objects no-one knew the purpose of . |
| 2 | For two months I lived the life of a quiet and responsible man . |
| 3 | Calling for regional peace , the leaders issued co-operation guidelines which included the establishment of a joint body to formulate and implement aid policy . |
| 4 | An attempt is made to demonstrate that this reasoning is faulty and that the disintegration of the Byzantine state was accompanied by economic growth in the provinces which reinforced the power of the provincial aristocracy in relation to the state . |
| 5 | This was assessed by two methods which measured the number of colonic cells in S phase of the growth cycle . |
| 6 | Certainly the resulting curriculum looks rather dull compared with the initial considerations which offered the possibility of a refreshing new view . |
| 7 | Furthermore , if some Branches struck and called on others to back them , that support could be ensured by picketing the workplaces of those who were to be persuaded : Scargill was strong in his insistence that miners do not cross picket lines formed by other miners , but he was eventually defeated by both the unwillingness of an increasingly large body of miners ( especially those working in Nottinghamshire , see below ) to disregard this advice in the absence of a national ballot on strike action , and the government 's preparedness to counter the pickets by mass policing and other tactics which limited the freedom of movement of perceived would-be pickets ( Fine and Millar , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Dalziel pushed his right index finger through the small hairs which fringed the cavity of his ear , and wriggled it sensuously about . |
| 9 | Hence there follows a full description of the origin and staple features of the constituent parts of the traditional farmstead because it is important that the untutored town dweller who is contemplating the purchase and conversion of an old farm building should recognise the different building types , understand the operational influences which shaped the form of each structure , and frame his or her ideas for the conversion so that any permanent evidence of agricultural history which the building provides is not erased . |
| 10 | It was intended to end the so-called " war of laws " , arising when republics issued sovereignty declarations which asserted the primacy of their own legislation . |
| 11 | Despite having a unsuitable car at BRM , Lauda gave some superb performances which attracted the eye of Enzo Ferrari . |
| 12 | They would prefer the vigour of language which either asserted the fact of ‘ real presence ’ in words which clothed the mode of his coming with an unmistakable reality , or which spoke of a ‘ real absence ’ in order to preserve the purity of Christ ‘ s coming to the heart of the believer in faith . |
| 13 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 14 | However , it was Salgado 's pictures which caught the imagination of picture editors . |
| 15 | The sense of solidarity within the community was always the driving force behind the primatial claims of Canterbury — indeed , behind all the claims to special rights and privileges which dogged the history of the Church for the next hundred years and more . |
| 16 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
| 17 | She lowered herself until she was crouched above his thighs ; slipping her hand between her legs she manoeuvred the tip of his cue into the moist entrance of her sensuous channel . |
| 18 | About one hundred women attended the conference but local women were conspicuously absent , forbidden to attend by their husbands who feared the power of women 's words , their wives ' innate feminism and the possibility of lesbian contagion . |
| 19 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 20 | Its clients who bore the brunt of administering Spanish America , the creoles , reacted with fury and resisted . |
| 21 | Resentment at the younger Despenser 's dominance at court , and his own links with the marchers who formed the core of the opposition — his daughter Elizabeth married the son and heir of Roger Mortimer , eighth Baron of Wigmore [ q.v. ] , in 1316 — may account for this dramatic change of sides . |
| 22 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 23 | As there was no meeting of minds to the interpretation of the Labour Court Recommendation it was agreed that both the Banks and IBOA should revert to the parties who sought the clarification of the Labour Court Recommendation i.e. Kevin Duffy of Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Turlough O'Sullivan of I.B.E.C. ( formerly FIE ) . |
| 24 | Her reputation grew and in 1968 , with four regular classes and a group of teenagers who formed the nucleus of an adult training centre , she moved to the Erimus Centre in College Road , Thorntree . |
| 25 | The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry . |
| 26 | Miliband 's position led to serious criticisms , not just from traditional instrumentalist Marxists but from other structuralists who recognised the importance of updating Marxism to take account of ideological hegemony and the pluralistic nature of politics in modern capitalism . |
| 27 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 28 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 29 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 30 | In the longer term the problems arose from a combination of factors including the economic recession ( which had badly affected the revenues from corporate , property and sales taxes which provided the bulk of state incomes ) , the legal obligation of states to balance their budgets , the recent trend of the Reagan and Bush administrations to transfer financial obligations from central to local government , and a rapid escalation in the demands on welfare and prison programmes . |