Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German biologist Ernst Haeckel 's Generelle Morphologie of 1866 pioneered the new approach . |
| 2 | Gary Smith of Civic had the best session break with an opening 39 . |
| 3 | Three times winners Corals of Crosby had a 3–1 win over Cherryfield of Kirkby , with Ronnie Croston clinching the match in the deciding fourth frame with a break of 38 , while Gary Smith of Civic had the best session break with a 39 . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1780 came the long-awaited summons . |
| 5 | At its end , the first census of 1801 recorded the unprecedented population of 9.2 million ; a decisive break with the past . |
| 6 | Taking the river Loire as a boundary the lands north of this reflected the Norman influence — that same influence which produced England 's Norman architecture also that of Sicily and southern Italy . |
| 7 | All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society . |
| 8 | Much of this bore the unmistakable stamp of guild thought and policy . |
| 9 | Not all members of staff in this department of thirteen felt the same degree of commitment to The Machine Gunners as a class reader . |
| 10 | The pretreatment of CV-6209 attenuated the mucosal damage at 30 minutes in a dose dependent manner . |
| 11 | Like the Corporation cars , several of these had the right hand side bulkhead window modified with a hinged opening light at the top . |
| 12 | Near the club entrance were two old houses and in one of these lived the local bird catcher . |
| 13 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 14 | Neither of these showed the sea-level view from an assault craft , when the ‘ white house ’ reference point for a beach could be hidden by trees . |
| 15 | A parliamentary enquiry of 1812 revealed the persisting importance of the American market to hardware manufacturers . |
| 16 | The necessity of obtaining every ounce of production in the grim days of 1940 raised the standard week of the workshops to 66-hours and , it was not unusual for men to work up to 80 hours per week for long periods , involving seven days a week without a break . |
| 17 | You should of all saw the last Synod papers received this . |
| 18 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 19 | The go-ahead was given subject to a ‘ weather window ’ to treat one block as a trail because , to the surprise of all involved the largest concentration of woodlice were in the roof under the roof tiles . |
| 20 | The Town and Country Planning ( Minerals ) Act of 1981 recognised the unique nature of mineral working as an industrial activity and created mineral planning authorities to oversee the process and ensure the restoration of the land after its mineral resources are exhausted . |
| 21 | Their struggles on the streets of Britain during the riots of 1981 restored the public peace at a time when it looked as though the ‘ thin blue line ’ was all that stood between turmoil and a still nascent Thatcherite revolution . |
| 22 | The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings . |
| 23 | As Summerson remarks of London , the Reform Bill of 1832 marked the final end of that tradition , and thereafter ‘ social responsibility was gradually shaken out of the aristocracy without being shaken into the bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 24 | A core gang of 15 spent the entire week at Tywyn , with many more volunteers helping for part of the week . |
| 25 | Incomes policy had been applied more rigorously in the state sector there too , and the winter of 1969–70 saw the novel spectacle of group after group of public sector workers rejecting settlements negotiated by their leaderships . |
| 26 | The Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Act of 1965 brought the federal government into the business of controlling motor vehicle emissions , with national emission standards for new vehicles being set , starting with the 1968 model year . |
| 27 | Our group of four included the one man in the party , a 35-year-old barrister , a girl of 30-something , myself , and Helen , our guide — once a guest but now a member of the staff . |
| 28 | The Abyssinian war of 1935–36 hardened the emerging division between those who looked to collective security to prevent a repeat of the Great War , and those who totally refused the use of force in international relations . |
| 29 | Even if the Act of 1988 protected the traditional fishing communities of the United Kingdom , it should respect the principle of proportionality . |
| 30 | While the masses went to the Isle of Wight , the inheritors of 1968 contemplated the declining value of their capital . |