Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 2 | After you got used to the conventions of his speech , he became readily comprehensible : shah-al-arhee was the mali 's rendering of salary . ) |
| 3 | With the increased growth of tension in the East End in 1936 the Security Service became interested in the activities of the IFL . |
| 4 | They became interested in the peculiarities of the Celtic society they tried to control and subdue . |
| 5 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 6 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor ’ in person , the monks enjoyed nevertheless a standard of living far above the Sussex norm , a situation made clear by the accounts of the late fourteenth-century cellarer , Brother Thomas Ellam , who bought the bulk provisions the monks needed : |
| 8 | Mr Wakenshaw 's parachute became tangled in the wheels of a plane and he was dragged along its fuselage . |
| 9 | He laid some of the foundations of the Newtonian mechanics that was to replace Aristotle 's . |
| 10 | Criticism of the kind which became popular with the pupils of I. A. Richards at Cambridge later in the century was absolutely unknown at Oxford . |
| 11 | Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno . |
| 12 | Equally probable is that the pre-schizophrenic child and the schizophrenic adult produced some of the abnormalities of the parents . |
| 13 | The fletchings were dyed in Alexei 's colours , and gleamed silver-grey in the shafts of light which penetrated the shop . |
| 14 | In fact their game in the quarter-finals of the Sicily 7s , operating as both qualifier and dress rehearsal for next year 's World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield , revealed some of the shortcomings of the competition . |
| 15 | We crossed the huge market square where a great throng had gathered to witness the execution of two brothers found guilty by the Judges of Assizes of plotting against the King . |
| 16 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he ranked high among the pioneers of twentieth-century chemical technology . |
| 18 | Under G.V. Chicherin , who became head of the People 's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ( Narkomindel ) in March 1918 , Soviet diplomacy rapidly readopted many of the methods of the old regime . |
| 19 | The case made by Cartwright , Travers and other Puritan divines was that the Church of England retained many of the errors of Rome . |
| 20 | White excelled in this role and for the rest of his life retained many of the attributes of the old-fashioned schoolmaster . |
| 21 | The transfer of souls in reincarnation would be important for The Waste Land , but in 1915 the ‘ revitalizing of the classics ’ , as Eliot later described one of the effects of anthropology , seems most apparent in ‘ Mr. Apollinax ’ where we are made very aware of the primitive , and particularly sexual aspects of classical mythology . |
| 22 | ‘ I just caught one of the incumbents of this house leaving the premises in a decidedly surreptitious manner . |
| 23 | He held it there , and with the other hand cradled one of the globes of her breasts and jounced it , like a buyer testing a melon 's weight in the market . |
| 24 | Besides , there was safety in the farm enclosure after the gates had been barred at night , whereas in the street below their apartment the way lay open in either direction , and presences palpitated unseen in the arches of the carriage doors under each house . |
| 25 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 26 | Johnston and McClelland used both of the types of backward mask which we have described . |
| 27 | One officer said that it was so precise that his men could have leaned against it ; another , that his only casualties were those who followed the wall too closely and became queasy from the fumes of explosives . |
| 28 | From under fierce black brows a pair of hazel eyes looked out calculatingly at the impersonal kitchen , made spotless by the ministrations of a Dutch cleaning lady . |
| 29 | This came into effect in 1975 , and held out the prospect that , once full pensions became payable under the terms of the new scheme , no qualifying pensioner would face poverty in old age . |
| 30 | He seemed oblivious of the stares of the whole town . |