Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriela Osvaldova , author of the lyrics , said the decision smacked of the censorship that was routine in four decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 3 | The 43-year-old star of The Charmer telephoned the BBC moments after its Watchdog programme told of the plight of mother-of-three Jenny Graham . |
| 4 | This programme consisted of the LGS training team remaining in the union for 6 months instead of the standard one month . |
| 5 | As of early 1990 , the coalition consisted of the Mouvement socialiste mauricien ( MSM ) , the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Organisation du peuple rodriguais ( OPR ) . |
| 6 | The mockery consisted of the one major taunt : that Jesus should save himself because he was ( i ) the Messiah , the Chosen One ; and ( ii ) the King of the Jews . |
| 7 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |
| 8 | When this book was first written , for example , no comprehensive study existed of the effects of land reform in eastern Europe after 1918 although many states then embarked upon schemes for the break-up of the great estates which had been the framework of economy and society in the east since the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | The first the trainer knew of the impending purchase was when a fax from Minton was found in his office last Wednesday . |
| 10 | Yet , with the advent of cannon , thickness was precisely the main characteristic which the defender demanded of the wall which protected him . |
| 11 | Newly flung mashed potato clung to the walls , testament to what the Rugby Supporters ' Club thought of the ‘ mash ’ part of the lunch . |
| 12 | A contemporary critic spoke of the " low tone " of de St. Croix 's Daguerreotypes . |
| 13 | Appearing before a Senate committee that was pondering ‘ the general area ’ of China and its implications , an official of the State Department said of the fund : ‘ It might be used in other areas of the Far East which are affected by the developments in China . |
| 14 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
| 15 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |
| 16 | One critic wrote of the show : ‘ Of course it 's great to see her but why was it necessary to have such a fawning and sycophantic performance ? ’ |
| 17 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 18 | Smiling nicely Muriel stood aside for Alice to enter a hall where not a trace remained of the stacks of pamphlets , or whatever they were . |
| 19 | Not a trace remained of the cold rage that had set his face like granite . |
| 20 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 21 | But as Vyner grew older the question arose of the succession : he had three daughters and the male heir was his nephew Anthony Brooke , son of Bertram . |
| 22 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 23 | This icon consisted of the rectangle of the canvas as a one-colour ground visible along the edge of — and occasionally through an opening between — three or four horizontal blocks of color with brushed surfaces and furry borders . |
| 24 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
| 25 | Following the demolition of a wooden fuel-store lean-to that had adjoined the south-east elevation of the engine house , most of the restoration work consisted of the replacement of decayed material . |
| 26 | This gang 's work consisted of the manufacture and repair of all the different types of manually propelled vehicles , ie : platform trucks , various types of barrows , coffin carriers , invalid chairs , trucks for lame pigs , tricycle carriers , hand carts of all types , ambulance litters etc . |
| 27 | PAMELA : " Do n't wonder to see the paper so blotted for my good lady died of the illness I mentioned to you , and left us all much grieved for the loss of her . |
| 28 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've come lately from Winchester , my friend ? ’ fitzAlan enquired of the younger man . |
| 30 | ‘ It was as bad as when I won Wimbledon in 1985 , ’ the 21-year-old multi-millionaire said of the response to this journey to the hamlet home , 50 miles south of East Berlin , of the grandmother of his girlfriend , Karen Schultz . |