Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 5 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 6 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 7 | An air of unreality hung over the whole campaign . |
| 8 | I pulled it out , sat on one of the armchairs , and with a feeling of unreality started on the right-hand lock . |
| 9 | Since the process of democratisation began in the late 1980s , theatre has played an important role in the strengthening the growth of democracy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The origins of the soul style of cooking began in the American Deep South , among black plantation slaves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | According to Labour 's own figures , in 1987 the Transport and General Workers Union gave more money to the Labour party than the whole of industry gave to the Tory party , and it gets votes for it , even on the leadership of the party . |
| 16 | To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them . |
| 17 | Letters of appreciation appeared in the local News . |
| 18 | Those links were particularly strengthened when a major test of the management of information which bore on student 's continuity of study came with the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) in 1982 . |
| 19 | Katherine Lundy opened her son 's bedroom door less than an hour later , the bar of light fell across the sprawled figure of Patrick , the sheets rumpled and curled around him . |
| 20 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 21 | But the lines of light glittered on the carved glassy flowers and formed a bright hazy enveloping pattern with the triangles of round mandarins , the crisscross of orange peel , Marcus 's fine polyhedrons in the tree , the changing firelight itself . |
| 22 | A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 23 | A FOOT of snow fell in the Scottish Highlands yesterday , bringing chaos to road , rail and air services . |
| 24 | Dark flakes of snow tumbled past the candlelit windows of the Countess of Ratho 's townhouse in Charlotte Square . |
| 25 | In the North , at Durham Priory , some leasing of demesne began in the late fourteenth century , but the main period at which it was rented out was between 1408 and 1416 , perhaps some two decades later than at Christ Church , Canterbury ( 80 , pp.79 , 90 , 131 ; 209 p.272 ) . |
| 26 | Under LFM key areas of decision-making remained under the ultimate direction of the LEA not least the curriculum , staffing establishments and conditions of service and pay discretions . |
| 27 | Given the forces of fate ranged against the standby passenger , the statistics of my trip were encouraging . |
| 28 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 29 | A rare voice of dissent came from the leading liberal legislator , Mr Martin Lee , who argued that the deportations would give Hong Kong a bad name . |
| 30 | The women who had this type of machine complained about the considerable amount of work still required of the housewife , and the mess on the kitchen floor to be cleared up afterwards . |