Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 2 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 3 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 4 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 5 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 6 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 7 | Between 1986 and 1991 , 18 ( 18% ) patients out of a total of 100 who underwent restorative proctocolectomy were aged 50 years or over ( median 55 years , range 50 to 66 years ) . |
| 8 | In the close season of 1924 he signed outside-right John Williams from Rotherham at a ‘ dirt cheap ’ price of under £2,000 . |
| 9 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 10 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 11 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 12 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 13 | Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's . |
| 14 | Erm look I 'll put June on from Mansfield first of all I wanted thirty seconds worth of famous dogs cos we had er why Nottinghamshire 's dogs are too dumpy earlier on did n't we ? . |
| 15 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 17 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 18 | In the 1840s most of those who acquired this land were British , including some civil servants . |
| 19 | Several of those who shared those discussions are now big names in the art market . |
| 20 | I 'm sure all of those who attended this year 's rally will join me in a sincere vote of thanks to Mick and Julie Turrell . |
| 21 | But we were not taken into the confidence of those who determined media-generated arguments between agendaless and ideologically bankrupt parties . |
| 22 | Of this latter group , 39 per cent were classified in manual occupations , compared to 33 per cent for shareowners as a whole and 28 per cent of those who owned non-privatisation shares . |
| 23 | Once the bane of those who owned glassfibre yachts , osmosis can now be dealt with using a number of techniques . |
| 24 | When faced with the seemingly inevitable growth of military authority backed up by frenetic ultranationalism and repression of those who opposed Japanese imperialism in Asia , the Emperor system provided the core values to justify collective effort and sacrifice . |
| 25 | Ken Livingstone , now a humble Labour backbencher , was leader of the GLC and guru of those who believed rainbow-coalition politics was coming to Britain . |
| 26 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 27 | The skill of the masons of 500 years ago and the faith of those who commissioned such works , which were truly built to the greater glory of God , is difficult to understand today . |
| 28 | He was one of those who led that assembly in prayer on its first full day 's sitting , which it devoted entirely to religious exercises . |
| 29 | That is to say , the majority of those who had domestic power in Libya were inclined to see the emancipation of women as a threat to their interests . |
| 30 | The remaining ten might be useful " when there was no preacher in their own or neighbouring societies provided they would take no step without the advice of those who had more experience than themselves " . |