Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A " loyalty loan " at the end of 1796 had produced a subscription of £18 million in less than sixteen hours . |
| 2 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 3 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 4 | None of this has produced a rise in fertility . |
| 5 | The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've had a couple of glasses of Scotch to celebrate finishing a course of antibiotics for a chest infection , ’ he finished wearily . |
| 7 | ‘ Cathal Crumley is a political activist of long-standing having served a sentence in the H-Blocks on the blanket protest . ’ |
| 8 | One of these involved plying a woman with drink until she fell reeling to the floor , where glass after glass of liquor was poured over her until she became ‘ merely a confusion of filth ’ . |
| 9 | Some of these have developed a taste for human flesh , perhaps as a result of feeding on bodies washed down by the Ganges during the ever more frequent floods . |
| 10 | Many of these have involved a comparison of rates of return on equity in owner- and management-controlled companies . |
| 11 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 12 | The European programme for completing the Single European Market by the end of 1992 has raised a number of questions about the labour market . |
| 13 | The Land Drainage Act of 1918 had made an attempt to simplify the administration of land drainage , but in the late 1920s it was clear that confusion still prevailed . |
| 14 | A small pointer to Noell 's wealth is his having paid £520 at the end of 1657 to avoid becoming an alderman of the City . |
| 15 | Every one of those surveyed had a class , though some were released from part of their teaching duties to undertake other activities . |
| 16 | Further , it is the current practice of AIB , at any rate , to provide more detailed factual information to representatives of those seeking to establish a claim on condition that the same information is made available to all other parties to the action including , of course , the potential defendants . |
| 17 | I was one of those asked to provide an opinion or two for the Murray investigations , and must give them credit for thoroughness of their enquiries and for most of the conclusions they reached . |
| 18 | Some of those have got an origin I think Thursday is it 's , it 's got a thought is n't it , yeah ? |
| 19 | Now , there is the possibility of Celtic failing to find a place anywhere in Europe . |
| 20 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 21 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 22 | ‘ Every intellectual who is called before one of the committees ought to refuse to testify , ’ wrote Einstein in an open letter to a New York teacher , one of thousands required to take a loyalty oath as a condition of further employment . |