Example sentences of "[vb past] of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To many , the report smacked of an attempted smear by Congress ( I ) 's dirty-tricks department . |
| 2 | He believed in collective Cabinet government and abhorred anything that smacked of an over-mighty premiership . |
| 3 | The event smacked of an earlier era of Hollywood where tyrannical film moguls ran the lives of their contracted artists , vetting them for indiscretions and disloyalty . |
| 4 | In ‘ generation 1 ’ , therefore , the ‘ climate ’ consisted of an equal representation of all 63 strategies . |
| 5 | The committee ( known as the Public Expenditure Survey Committee , PESC ) consisted of an inter-departmental group of departmental finance officers and Treasury officials who prepared information for decision makers . |
| 6 | In eight cases , the lesion consisted of an irregular and large ulcer with raised edges and was highly suggestive of malignancy . |
| 7 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 8 | His police interviews consisted of an impassioned explanation by a man at the end of his tether . |
| 9 | His police interviews consisted of an impassioned explanation by a man at the end of his tether . |
| 10 | The package , on which voting was 190 to 153 with six members absent , consisted of an immediate freeze on wages and prices , dividends , rents and local taxes until the end of 1991 . |
| 11 | The Situationists ' strategy consisted of an exploratory utopianism — a kind of heuristic projection of a future society . |
| 12 | The roof of the foyer consisted of an enormous green glass dome . |
| 13 | Target for the 401st consisted of an underground fuel dump at Montbartier in France , close to the Spanish border . |
| 14 | The tomb consisted of an oblong brick vault with an arched roof high enough to allow a person buried in it to sit up with care when visited by the two examining angels , Munkar and Nekeer . |
| 15 | Jet Training consisted of an intensive two month course which provided sixteen hours simulation at FSI 's LaGuardia facility , followed by twenty-five hours flight time from Teterboro in JAL 's three Falcons ( 282 , 284 and 290 ) . |
| 16 | The only decoration on the walls of my new home consisted of an old half-used calendar for 1935 . |
| 17 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 18 | This book of 100 pages consisted of an edited summary of answers to a questionnaire which the two editors had sent out not only to missionaries but also to Buddhist laymen and government officials . |
| 19 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 20 | He talked of an Italian plan to stop the war and have a conference instead , he said he was in touch with France to agree a time limit for Germany to withdraw and be forgiven , it came across as craven . |
| 21 | Some blamed the government for ineffective support for their interests and conceived of an oligarchic assembly in St Petersburg which would reinforce the bonds between Tsar and nobility . |
| 22 | This argument , however , is countered by drawing attention to the passage in Emendatio Vitae ( c.11 ) describing singular love : which shows that he conceived of an unlimited and thus , literally , unfulfilled desire for God . |
| 23 | The Moroccan Interior Ministry had on Jan. 2 warned of an environmental catastrophe of " tragic proportions " and the loss of up to 100,000 jobs in the fishing and tourism industries . |
| 24 | Samson yowled , let go , and she was over the back of the counter crouching down , pushing and wriggling through stinking legs and skirts that reeked of an unwashed lifetime . |
| 25 | She hinted of an important secret still to be divulged . |
| 26 | ‘ Does this fact of your being a nation ’ , he inquired of an Australian audience , ‘ imply separation from the Empire ? |
| 27 | A sly grin crossed his face as he thought of an alternative billet in which to spend what remained of the night . |
| 28 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 29 | Nettlefold died of an apoplectic seizure , 22 November 1881 , at his Scottish home , Allean House , near Pitlochry , Perthshire . |
| 30 | Brian , of EMI Records , who worked with Cliff Richard , Kate Bush and Pink Floyd , died of an AIDS-related illness last Wednesday . |