Example sentences of "[vb past] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 2 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 3 | In particular , they would oppose anything which smacked of the corporatist state . |
| 4 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 5 | What is more , to his British rivals , Bonington 's very success smacked of the meretricious . |
| 6 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 7 | Some tasted of the parched winds of the Arabian Gulf ; others of the exuberant tribal animism of the South Pacific ; while others again echoed the ancient Hindu courts of Java and India . |
| 8 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 9 | The greatest criticism which reviewers made of the early drafts of the book was that it lacked cohesiveness . |
| 10 | [ T ] he analysis Paine made of the early American constitution was remarkably acute . |
| 11 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 12 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 13 | But to sit here , like one of the effeminate fools smirking over there or , worse still , like Antonini and Ferrante and the others he 'd spotted , who boasted of the conquests they made of the long-legged girls who dreamed of jewels and furs and sold themselves so easily — to sit here , to even be in the same room with such men , made him feel filthy . |
| 14 | A search will reveal : ( a ) Whether the property is in an area of compulsory registration ( question 18 made of the local authority will also give you this information ) ; ( b ) whether the freehold or leasehold title is registered ; ( c ) if the title is unregistered , whether any cautions against first registration or priority notice is registered . |
| 15 | Application is made on Form 96 and costs £6. ( d ) Action on receipt of reply As when considering the answer to question 18 made of the local authority , consider whether any unregistered disposition of the property for value has been made since registration of title became compulsory . |
| 16 | ‘ A series of questions recently asked of the general public found that nearly everybody drinks at home some time and that 47pc of people drink at home at least once-a-week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 19 | You may well ask what became of the Zionist terrorists after the British left ? |
| 20 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 21 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 22 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 23 | This follows representations by the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) which learnt of the proposed change in May . |
| 24 | New manager Ray Hankin disposed of the rusty 5–3–2 formation and pushed his assistant Mick Tait into a hard working midfield which created several openings in the first half hour . |
| 25 | Ipswich knocked out Hightown last week in a tense but skilful game , while Chelmsford disposed of the mighty Slough after a penalty shoot-out at Chelmer Park . |
| 26 | He disposed of the remaining barriers between them , and even the cold water lapping against their naked bodies could n't cool her heated skin . |
| 27 | Then , in 1811 , he cruelly disposed of the remaining senior mamluks , massacring them after entertaining them to a feast in the citadel . |
| 28 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 29 | We disposed of the big fish first , not even so without difficulty ; for while some , like Ceylon and Jamaica , were islands , which was a good enough demarcation for rough and ready purposes , others , like the Indians or Nigerians , were not so unmistakable and quarrelled violently over who they were . |
| 30 | There is no need for the City Council to ask you to sign a new instruction whenever the amount is deducted from your bank account , you will be sent a new bill and advised of the new payments to be made . |