Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max has to establish a relationship with the soldiers : ‘ He had quite early realised that part of their life depended on their being left to do things by themselves and not being interfered with . |
| 2 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 3 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 4 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 5 | The museum already has a comprehensive library donated as a bequest from Paul Maenz , the former Cologne gallery owner , and has been given fifty-five works of art by a West German group of industrialists . |
| 6 | Also present , and hoping to apply for membership in due course , were representatives from the Shoreham Aviation Heritage Trust , who have been given 75 acres of land at historic Shoreham Airport to develop into a museum . |
| 7 | Besides , the magazine reported that almost unbelievably , the government had stopped advance copies of scientific annual reports being issued to weekly journals because London 's evening newspaper , The Standard , had printed ( heinous ! dastardly ! ) details of awards to Falkland troops as much as 12 hours before they were officially released . |
| 8 | The elite theory shares with pluralist writings a very well developed descriptive sense of what has been happening . |
| 9 | Despite having 20 minutes to compose himself after being given advance notification of the exit poll result , the tension showed clearly on the Kinnocks ' faces as they they struggled to swallow bitter disappointment . |
| 10 | The First World War provided a similar test and again only the Labour and Unionist parties were able to meet it squarely , but the battles of 1912 and 1913 had given advance warning of what was to come . |
| 11 | It was agreed that he , RW , and CW should be given advance warning of the arrival of new research workers , in order to assess requirements for space , laboratory facilities , library and computing services . |
| 12 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 13 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 14 | I had heard awful tales of Spanish prisons . |
| 15 | She has always painted botanical illustrations of flowers in watercolour some of which she published in a portfolio in 1982 and others she sold . |
| 16 | On Friday and yesterday police received eight reports of youngsters stealing property from pensioners . |
| 17 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 18 | The compartments were arranged as : a bed sitting room with lavatory accommodation at one end for the two sisters ; next were two bedrooms with wardrobes , table for medical officers , these rooms placed each side of a well-equipped bathroom and lavatory . |
| 19 | Promises of more schools and hospitals were regarded sceptically by peasants whom bitter experience had taught that talk of better times always meant worse . |
| 20 | Insistence on instant cause and effect was particularly prevalent among sects such as Plymouth Brethren , and Edmund Gosse , in recording his early life , has given revealing examples of his father 's inflexible thinking . |
| 21 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 22 | ‘ Much of it is , but Christian has been given fifty acres of forest land . |
| 23 | It is certainly not intended that intrusion of any kind should be encouraged into an area of the child 's experience which must be sensitively respected , and this must be kept in mind when reading the section ‘ My family ’ . |
| 24 | I will attempt to show that answers to this question have to do with the almost hidden insidious nature of modern life . |
| 25 | The government of North Korea , which was believed to have received advanced warning of the move from its longstanding Chinese ally , gave a muted reaction to the news . |
| 26 | The new rulers and the newly formed political societies of the post-Renaissance period lacked political experience . |
| 27 | In the Gulf , in addition to the Kleenex , everywhere they went , no matter what time of day , they were given little cups of very strong coffee to drink . |
| 28 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 29 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 30 | Mitigation can be provided for the defendant if evidence is given that bits of string or sticky tape showed where ‘ L ’ plates had been fitted . |