Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight …
2 On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence .
3 In the high grade group , a Cox 's multivariate analysis was performed to identify which of the following variables such as age , extension to adjacent organs or serosal invasion , stage and mode of treatment ( surgery , chemotherapy , or the combination of both ) might be of independent significance in predicting mortality .
4 The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction .
5 In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals .
6 The Irish Government was resolutely determined to rid itself of the British system which had done so much harm to the economy .
7 A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate .
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