Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 2 | Shadow Trade Secretary Robin Cook threatened to release confidential papers which he claims show Mr Major as Foreign Secretary knew of the arms-to-Saddam policy . |
| 3 | A British officer enquired of the YUGOSLAV guards if the Croats would be fed during the journey . |
| 4 | He insisted that there was no fundamental change in the view the British public took of the monarchy and that the Queen had not been put under pressure by the Government to pay taxes but had volunteered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A contemporary critic spoke of the " low tone " of de St. Croix 's Daguerreotypes . |
| 7 | To begin with , liberal theologians thought of the Holy Spirit of God as speaking to contemporary man through those elements in Bible or Church tradition which accorded best with their own insights . |
| 8 | Many liberal politicians complained of the automatic extension to the army of the rights of police in respect of civilians . |
| 9 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | As most ancient law-codes consisted of the casuistic type , it may be that the apodictic was a peculiarly Israelite form , in which case the Decalogue ( the Ten Commandments ) was unique to Israel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 14 | A letter from a psychiatrist in an unnamed clinic said of the Marquis ' absence ’ It would be against his medical interest to come out today ’ . |
| 15 | Chinese fables spoke of the abyss that lay in the waters to the east . |
| 16 | Eventually a full picture emerged of the roles of the functional groups , their information needs , and the structure and use of the existing filing systems . |
| 17 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 18 | The double title consisted of the church 's mission to teach under infallible guidance and her ‘ supernatural motherhood ’ by which the church ‘ educates souls in the divine life of grace ’ ( 1929 : 7 ) . |
| 19 | Several blind people complained of the excessive concern over their inability to make eye contact with clients and the difficulty they had convincing teaching staff that they could cope . |
| 20 | Their independent variable consisted of the firm 's financial performance , particularly return on equity and return on sales compared with the remaining non-litigated top 500 firms . |
| 21 | What is more , to his British rivals , Bonington 's very success smacked of the meretricious . |
| 22 | The Old Dissenting sects consisted of the Presbyterians , Independents ( also known as Congregationalists ) , Baptists , Unitarians and Quakers . |
| 23 | The dominant class in feudal society consisted of the landowners who owned urban land , from which they extracted rents , and non-urban land , from which they usurped the surplus generated by peasants . |
| 24 | In a secret notebook , the 15-year-old girl wrote of the mischievous 12-year-old : ‘ I must love James more . ’ |
| 25 | Artists of various kinds complained of the restrictions under which they laboured . |
| 26 | Dr Marie Stopes , the English doctor who is famous for her work in the 1920s on marital relations said of the Jewish marital laws of Taharat HaMishpachah : |
| 27 | The final route climbed of the selection made here , was the steep eliminate of Absolution ( E5 ) , fittingly pioneered in 1987 by sea cliff virtuoso Pat Littlejohn . |
| 28 | Other candidates spoke of the need to rid West Ham of its slums and provide its children with the opportunity to reach university . |
| 29 | Ronnie Massarella , Chef d'Equip of the British Equestrian team spoke of the hard realities facing competitors , and Richard Whiteley of Yorkshire TV generously agreed to act as MC for the event . |
| 30 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |