Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen smelled of sour milk and woodsmoke . |
| 2 | The car smelled of fresh plastic . |
| 3 | The labour cost of this work would be presented to the Camphill Building Fund as our gift/donation . |
| 4 | Yet the Bahia Paraiso tragedy seemed of little consequence compared with the disaster which occurred in northern polar waters only weeks later . |
| 5 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 6 | The target quota consisted of eight young adults ( 18–25 years ) and eight middle-aged adults ( 40–55 ) , equally divided between males and females . |
| 7 | In the late 1980s we can review the situation in my two localities in terms of being ‘ after the planners ’ , because the Hailsham programme consisted of planned accommodation with social change in the name of modernization and social progress . |
| 8 | Hess mistakenly thought that the oceanic crust consisted of altered peridotite , the material of the mantle itself . |
| 9 | The new style review consisted of three components : |
| 10 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 11 | The experiment consisted of two phases , first a judgment phase and then a recognition phase , each phase lasted approximately 25 minutes in total . |
| 12 | The experiment consisted of two phases in which subjects watched films , first a judgment phase and second a recognition phase , the first phase lasted approximately 20 minutes , the second phase approximately 40 minutes . |
| 13 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |
| 14 | The probe mix consisted of 0.5-1 µl labelled DNA , 1.5 µl sonicated placental DNA ( 10 mg/ml , Sigma ) and 13 µl hybridisation buffer . |
| 15 | Their mockery consisted of two taunts : |
| 16 | This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent . |
| 17 | By 1761 the artillery consisted of 31 field companies , totalling 3200 officers and men ; the former , unlike their infantry and cavalry colleagues , did not have to purchase their commissions but were appointed and promoted solely on merit , and the British artillery was soon recognised as the best in the world . |
| 18 | The study consisted of 68 patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection . |
| 19 | The main study consisted of two phases as follows : |
| 20 | The experimental service in this study consisted of task-centred casework ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) provided by social workers . |
| 21 | What was left of their election reporting consisted of brief clips from the itineraries of the party leaders . |
| 22 | The practice consisted of two offices which were run independently by B and W respectively . |
| 23 | ( In 1956 , Batov 's invasion force consisted of 120 000 troops drawn from the Ukraine , as well as Romania and Hungary itself ; Soviet divisions along with one Polish , one East German , one Hungarian division and one Bulgarian brigade — over 400 000 men — were funnelled into Czechoslovakia on the night of 20–21 August 1968 ) . |
| 24 | Calling itself both the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) and Ikontanyi , the rebel force consisted of several thousand Rwandan refugees based in Uganda , led by Maj.-Gen. |
| 25 | Initially called ‘ L Detachment SAS Brigade ’ , this force consisted of seven officers and sixty other ranks . |
| 26 | On the hustings in my first election campaign in February 1974 , the casualty list among officers of my association consisted of one broken nose , two black eyes and the lady chairman drenched by a bucket of water , which the candidate had ducked . |
| 27 | Inquiries by The Independent have confirmed that while West Midlands Police were publicly acknowledging the existence of four or five complaints against the squad , its internal investigations department knew of three more in which serious allegations had been made against detectives . |
| 28 | The Independent has learnt that the complaints department knew of three more cases . |
| 29 | Another lawyer spoke of long-term rather than short-term shifts : |
| 30 | Though your story told of some doubt about their future together , the happy ending was written in their eyes . |