Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the naked corpse of Hauser lay on a central table , the chest cavity spread open , and several organs glistening purply on gleaming dishes to either side . |
| 2 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 3 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 4 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 5 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 6 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 7 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 8 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 9 | In autumn 1985 the former American National Security Adviser , Brzezinski , proposed the external neutralisation of Afghanistan combined with a Soviet military withdrawal , the introduction of Islamic peace-keeping forces for an interim period , and self-determination for the Afghans . |
| 10 | The Midland Valley of Scotland developed as an internal molasse trough during the early Devonian with thick calc-alkaline lavas and clastic red-bed facies sediments derived from the erosion of the adjacent Caledonian mountains . |
| 11 | The 1515 ex Euston on the 13th of January consisted of a three coach Sprinter and a two coach Sprinter coupled together . |
| 12 | The revelation of Elvaston led to a topiary revival in the 1850s . |
| 13 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 14 | At one end is the Temple of Jupiter built on a high podium ; the Corinthian Order is used and the building was flanked by two triumphal arches . |
| 15 | The extreme case would be when the removal of NTBs led to a domestic monopoly becoming a perfectly competitive market . |
| 16 | The city of Lothern grew from a small fishing village to a great city to accommodate the increase in trade from the colonies and other realms . |
| 17 | The US state of Louisiana defaulted on a nineteenth century loan and was still unwelcome to bond markets a century later . |
| 18 | In the 1880s , the expanding population of Liverpool led to an increased demand for water . |
| 19 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 20 | By 300 the West added the birth of Jesus integrated into a solar calendar by being placed at the winter solstice . |
| 21 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 22 | In him the Word and Wisdom of God dwelt in a unique degree . |
| 23 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 24 | At their meetings in October 1989 ( see p. 36987 ) Kadhafi and President Mubarak of Egypt agreed on a new framework for economic co-operation to bring Libya and Egypt closer together . |
| 25 | After oral administration of 15.0 mg PABA-UDCA disulphate to each rat , the amounts of PABA excreted in a six-hour urine sample were determiend . |
| 26 | At the point where the river Adige flows down from the north , bringing traffic from the north , from the Brenner pass and Bavaria and Austria , the city of Verona nestled in a pear-shaped bend in the river . |
| 27 | President Alan Gacia of Peru called for a planned summit on February 15 with President Bush to discuss drugs to be ‘ deferred ’ because of the invasion . |
| 28 | In 1720 , for example , the Duke of Montrose remarked to a Scottish friend , that he had been advised by an official of the Treasury that a presentation to the office of land waiter of the customs at Port Glasgow had been submitted by the commissioners of customs in Scotland . |
| 29 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 30 | The sense of insecurity which affected the city-states of Mesopotamia led to a rudimentary interest in the history of social order . |