Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 2 | Some of the scenes were filmed in the unlikely Pacific setting of Bournemouth sands — where onlookers caught a glimpse of those red underpants as Kristian changed out of wet clothes after beach scenes . |
| 3 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 4 | The bombs fell on South Wales and reports came in of young men killed in the air , on land , at sea . |
| 5 | Stories came in of fresh controversies and skirmishes between the Desmonds and the Ormondes , and Maurice Fitzgerald began making overtures to Spain in the hope that King Philip might agree to support Ireland and throw out the English , once and for all . |
| 6 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
| 7 | The computer , to cite another example , required no fewer than six separate strands of knowledge : binary arithmetic ; Charles Babbage 's conception of a calculating machine in the first half of the nineteenth century ; the punch card , invented by Herman Hollerith for the US census of 1890 ; the audion tube , an electronic switch invented in 1906 ; symbolic logic , which was created between 1910 and 1913 by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead ; and the concepts of programming and feedback that came out of abortive attempts during World War I to develop effective anti-aircraft guns . |
| 8 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
| 9 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 10 | He acted out of moral considerations yet they could not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense because they were principles or considerations involved in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 11 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 12 | This gesellschaft model presupposes a society made up of atomic individuals pursuing private interests , in competition with one another , in which the principle of individual enterprise constitutes the chief mechanism for the allocation of resources . |
| 13 | Continuous flow machines form a tunnel made up of separate sections , wash and rinse , which operate continuously while items are drawn through on a link conveyor . |
| 14 | It was a unique experience to rummage the various weird oil-related craft , construction barges , pipe-laying barges , drilling rigs etc. , some of them like small townships afloat with huge crews made up of separate groups such as divers , riggers , welders , roustabouts and supervisors . |
| 15 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 16 | The intrinsic value of the ball , in contrast — say its beauty — would follow from the intrinsic nature made up of such properties but not itself be part of that in virtue of which two balls might be exactly alike . |
| 17 | The CIS are probably the oldest team ever to play student rugby , but this composite side — made up of two Ukranians , nine Georgians , five Muscovites , six Kazakhs and Uzbeks — are unlikely to repeat their 1988 heroics and could well struggle against both Italy and Ireland . |
| 18 | The debate has again underlined the paralysis of a government made up of two parties which hold such opposing views on the resolution of the the occupied-territories question . |
| 19 | A formation , for instance , is a whole structured in dominance made up of various instances , each of which contains structures . |
| 20 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 21 | From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis . |
| 22 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 23 | Elsewhere the police authority is a committee of the County Council made up of two-thirds councillors and one-third magistrates . |
| 24 | The relative error associated with digitizing straight lines ( e.g. power lines ) is considerably less than that associated with digitizing line features made up of complex curves ( e.g. coastlines ) . |
| 25 | We had imaginary teams made up of real players , so if all your players scored a total of 4 goals and your goalie let in 1 goal the score for your team was 4–1 . |
| 26 | Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans . |
| 27 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 28 | Each series in the Journey of Understanding is limited to a maximum of adults made up of equal numbers from both communities . |
| 29 | The branch and regional structure is overseen by a national Branches Committee made up of Regional Directors . |
| 30 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |