Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , infusion of PYX did not prevent bile inhibition of ileal motor activity . |
| 2 | From the west and north powerful gales swept from off the north Atlantic Ocean , sending great waves roaring into the cliffs below his flight , and spumes of sea-spray came up to put salt on his wings . |
| 3 | This was not orthodox , but then , although a Freudian , she was not an orthodox Freudian , and her vision of futurity did not exclude celibacy . |
| 4 | Activation of granulocytes did not increase muscle relaxation ( mean relaxation by activated granulocytes 21.3 ( 10 ) % compared with 18.4 ( 6 ) % by non-activated cells ( n=12 pairs , p=0.7 ) ) . |
| 5 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 6 | Members of both Houses of Parliament turned out to pay tribute to the controversial MP who died in March . |
| 7 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 8 | When one considers that the official State Academy of Arts did not allow women to study there until 1919 , one can imagine how many women were given the chance of becoming professional artists by the mere existence of this institution which attracted tutors of the calibre of Karl Stauffer-Bern , who taught Kathe Kollwitz . |
| 9 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 10 | This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback , but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope 's taste . |
| 11 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 12 | For example , the discovery and development of anaesthesia did not involve animals at any stage . |
| 13 | The other sense of type did not involve time . |
| 14 | Whatever ensued , the United Company of Undertakers did not receive livery status , though they did excite sufficient interest to merit a sarcastic caricature from William Hogarth entitled ‘ The Company of Undertakers ’ , and with the motto ‘ Et Plurima Mortis Imago ’ — ‘ The Very Picture of Death ’ . |
| 15 | Rites of passage designed solely to make transition bearable , he wrote . |
| 16 | The show of dissent did n't do Foster 's England chances any harm as 72 hours later he was told of his recall by Essex skipper Graham Gouch at the expense of Lancashire 's Phil de Freitas . |
| 17 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 18 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 19 | The fact that Einstein 's general theory of relativity turned out to predict singularities led to a crisis in physics . |
| 20 | Whatever may have occurred earlier , it seems most likely that the sustained recovery of population did not take place until the late fifteenth or the early sixteenth century . |
| 21 | Yet membership of NATO did not prevent Britain 's stand during the Falklands or the Gulf . |
| 22 | Gradually groups of Slavs moved in to colonise areas which they had occupied during their raids . |
| 23 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature had strongly urged cancellation of the project , which it feared threatened the integrity of one of the world 's most important wetlands . |
| 24 | The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard , though his immediate family were spared its direct horrors . |
| 25 | These sort of sentiments had never crossed Diana 's mind . |
| 26 | Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 . |
| 27 | Loudspeakers from the south-eastern province of Fujian had previously directed propaganda messages to Taiwanese troops stationed on Quemoy and other islands close to the mainland . |
| 28 | A ‘ revolutionary committee ’ of barons seemed about to take control of the central government : the forest would have had short shrift from them . |
| 29 | Removal of platelets did not alter relaxation of precontracted muscle by 1×10/l mononuclear cells which was 22 ( 7 ) % with platelets and 26 ( 10% ) without ( p>0.1 , n=7 pairs ) . |
| 30 | As the relentless publicity machinery of pop set about building Kylie into the perfectly-packaged star , however , the cerebral was taking a back seat to the sensational . |