Example sentences of "[vb past] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most disturbing aspect of this incident was the evidence it provided of a residual antisemitism in Poland , disproportionate to the residue of a once-great Jewish community . |
| 2 | To many , the report smacked of an attempted smear by Congress ( I ) 's dirty-tricks department . |
| 3 | He believed in collective Cabinet government and abhorred anything that smacked of an over-mighty premiership . |
| 4 | There was a newsflash I caught of a big pile-up on the E 35 autobahn outside Freiburg … ’ |
| 5 | Of the other two paintings , one is a picture of a friend , a girl who was also a student , posing in the same life-room , and the other , a portrait I made of a fellow student and good friend of mine from the Royal Academy , James Tower , who became a noted ceramicist . |
| 6 | He smelled of a lemony cologne . |
| 7 | Also it was hoped that investors ( eg pension funds ) would put their money into property for letting , assured of a reasonable return . |
| 8 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 9 | Should you decide not to accept the above major changes you may cancel your booking and we refund all monies paid and , where you advised of a major change within eight weeks of departure , issue you with compensation of £10 per person . |
| 10 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 11 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 12 | At a party at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate his forthcoming 86th birthday on Christmas Day , Lord Grade told of a tricky moment during the filming of his film Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 13 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 14 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 15 | ‘ He came of a crusading line which has held the manor of Templecombe since time immemorial ? ’ |
| 16 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 17 | His father came of a well-known Sussex family , and left him a lease of Selsey prebend in his will of 15 April 1569 . |
| 18 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
| 19 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 20 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 21 | If he had a hangover from too much of the strongest real ale to be found the night before — Jack was a formidable seeker-out of head-banging beers with frightening names — or if the play was too slow , or if he disapproved of a local rule , or a local official , or a new initiative by the PGA , or … |
| 22 | Their native land consisted of a central plain surrounded by mountains . |
| 23 | Each office in Scott 's design consisted of a central block , with parallel wings extending from the ends of the block to form a three-sided court . |
| 24 | It consisted of a cruciform church whose stone was hewn from hardened lava . |
| 25 | The treatment consisted of a full-body massage , with particular attention to her back ( the area either side of the spine is the gateway to the entire nervous system ) . |
| 26 | The regimen consisted of a liquid diet for 36 hours , followed by an absolute fast for a further 12 hours . |
| 27 | With the exception of the three islands ' authorities in Scotland , the system of local government in Britain following reorganisation in the 1970s consisted of a two-tier system . |
| 28 | The second placed designs by Atlas Architects of Amsterdam consisted of a simple sandstone needle designed deliberately to contrast with the glass bulk of the St Enoch Centre . |
| 29 | It consisted of a legal adviser , Stephano Burchi ; a geologist , Tony Sutcliffe ; and a civil engineer , Ter Mincassian . |
| 30 | The last phase of the Watergate scandal consisted of a prolonged battle between the President and those investigating the case over possession of these tapes . |