Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 2 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 3 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 4 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 5 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 6 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 7 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 8 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 9 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 10 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 11 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 12 | Generations of artists travelled about the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | For better or worse , the art world thinks in decade-blocks , and if the Eighties were the decade when cash-rich corporations sponsored major loan shows by established artists and contemporary art museums heralded the ‘ mid-careers ’ of artists anointed by the commercial galleries , the Nineties are the era of social concern . |
| 14 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 15 | An air of unreality hung over the whole campaign . |
| 16 | I pulled it out , sat on one of the armchairs , and with a feeling of unreality started on the right-hand lock . |
| 17 | Since the process of democratisation began in the late 1980s , theatre has played an important role in the strengthening the growth of democracy . |
| 18 | Hitler 's threats against the Jews , whose hand he of course saw behind the British and American ‘ war-mongerers ’ , were an attempt to retaliate at what he regarded as Jewish-provoked anti-German public opinion and , by depicting Jews in the position of hostages as the certain victims in any new war , to exert pressure on Britain and the USA to leave Germany a free hand in Europe . |
| 19 | This continuation ( or even increase ) in commercial monopoly and duopoly in equipment supply of course went alongside the continuing monopoly of the core telephone network . |
| 20 | The origins of the soul style of cooking began in the American Deep South , among black plantation slaves . |
| 21 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 22 | Anti-Darwinian versions of evolutionism flourished in the later decades of the century because they upheld the view that natural development is a more orderly and more purposeful process than natural selection would allow . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 24 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 25 | The paper 's first two years of existence coincided with the United Tanganyika party 's campaign for African support , and it gave the party a considerable amount of publicity . |
| 26 | In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics . |
| 27 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 28 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 29 | All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals . |
| 30 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |