Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 2 | The reason in both cases why the security given was unenforceable was that ( a ) the security was given by the wife of the debtor , ( b ) the creditor knew of the relationship , ( c ) the creditor had done nothing to ensure that the wife understand the transaction , ( d ) the wife did not properly understand the transaction , and ( e ) she had had no independent advice . |
| 3 | Most of the coverage of the case consisted of the popular newspapers displaying their ingenuity in getting his first wife , her mother , his mother , brothers , nephews , nieces , friends , and neighbours to provide an account of the sex beast , especially his sexual habits . |
| 4 | A different section of the resistance consisted of the political wing led by ex-President Beneš . |
| 5 | The contract consisted of the dealer promising that the car was a ‘ good little bus ’ in return of the customer applying to the finance company to acquire it on hire-purchase terms . |
| 6 | Gabriela Osvaldova , author of the lyrics , said the decision smacked of the censorship that was routine in four decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia . |
| 7 | The Times wrote of the farce , ‘ It yields only one performance of any bite . |
| 8 | The first stage of the inspection consisted of the shadowing pupils by advisers . |
| 9 | When the authorities learned of the attempt by the IRA to free key men from east Tyrone and south Derry last Saturday , all 570 inmates of the jail were ordered to remove their socks and shoes . |
| 10 | Yet , with the advent of cannon , thickness was precisely the main characteristic which the defender demanded of the wall which protected him . |
| 11 | As of early 1990 , the coalition consisted of the Mouvement socialiste mauricien ( MSM ) , the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Organisation du peuple rodriguais ( OPR ) . |
| 12 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |
| 13 | The first the trainer knew of the impending purchase was when a fax from Minton was found in his office last Wednesday . |
| 14 | The mockery consisted of the one major taunt : that Jesus should save himself because he was ( i ) the Messiah , the Chosen One ; and ( ii ) the King of the Jews . |
| 15 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 16 | v. Lowthian the defendants knew of the existence of the contract between the plaintiffs and their co-contractors but they did not know its precise terms and said that they assumed from their experience in other cases that it could be terminated at short notice . |
| 17 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 18 | But as Vyner grew older the question arose of the succession : he had three daughters and the male heir was his nephew Anthony Brooke , son of Bertram . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was a tremendous morale-booster for Michael to do something of the sort again , but I am sure none of the delegates at the conference knew of the pain he was in , nor how much discomfort he concealed behind his ready laugh . |
| 21 | Elsewhere the stations consisted of the usual combination of waiting-room , baggage room , office , and telegraph-operator 's room . |
| 22 | The room smelled of the ghost of wine and a hint of cinnamon . |
| 23 | The room reeked of the cheap perfume worn by the blowzy woman who was vacating it as we arrived . |
| 24 | But in the absence of any evidence that the plaintiff knew of the duress , the defence failed . |
| 25 | Although the plaintiff knew of the risk and continued to work , there was no evidence that he had voluntarily undertaken to run the risk of injury . |
| 26 | In 1981 a leaked memo from the Chief Medical Officer at the DHSS warned of the dangers to young children 's intelligence posed by lead in petrol , and in 1983 a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a strong recommendation that immediate action should be taken to remove lead from petrol . |
| 27 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 28 | 'T IS unlikely that the king spoke of the matter to my mother or any other — save one ! ’ |
| 29 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 30 | The crew consisted of the captain , first , second and third mates , chief and second engineer , wireless operator , bosun , carpenter and eighteen other hands . |