Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 2 | Hugh McLeod has written of the lower-class , ‘ the arbitrary ruler of their world was not God but Fate . ’ |
| 3 | Christopher Tugendhat , a former Commissioner , has written of the dreamlike sensation in Brussels , where the daily drama of Community life goes almost entirely unreported in the national newspapers on sale in the city . |
| 4 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | What has become of the proletarian consciousness of this working-class town in ‘ The Little Red Province ’ ? |
| 7 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 8 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 9 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 10 | Hitherto , although the structure of the motion has become increasingly complex , the time scale of the velocity fluctuations has remained of the same order as the period of the initial wave . |
| 11 | Its aim is to understand the historical origins and the development in the successive cultural milieux through which the Christian faith has passed of the major doctrines in which these beliefs have been expressed ; and it is particularly concerned with the contemporary appraisal and formulation of these doctrines in view of the dominant directions of modern thought , and with their ecumenical prospects . |
| 12 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 13 | A senior government official in Kazakhstan has warned of the growing danger posed by unsupervised dumping of industrial waste including components or instruments with powerful sources of ionizing radiation . |
| 14 | Captain Kepler Wessels has complained of the indecent haste in agreeing to play the series in the West Indies so soon after the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 15 | Keeping informed of the latest international research and developments in the field is easy if you take out a subscription to Applied Linguistics . |
| 16 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 17 | also it looked like Ronnie ‘ the runner ’ Rosenthal was in excellent shape for Israel against France — he looked sharp as hell from the glimpes Ive seen of the israelian goals — is he still at Liverpool ? ? |
| 18 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 19 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |
| 20 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 21 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 22 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 23 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 24 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 25 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 26 | He 's got rid of the old plants , he 's , but he 's kept the seeds , this is interesting , he 's kept the seeds from apparently unaffected plants . |
| 27 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 28 | I thought I 'd actually got rid of the damned things . |
| 29 | And it has also got rid of the yellow lines which once scarred them . |
| 30 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |