Example sentences of "[vb past] of an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To many , the report smacked of an attempted smear by Congress ( I ) 's dirty-tricks department . |
| 2 | He believed in collective Cabinet government and abhorred anything that smacked of an over-mighty premiership . |
| 3 | The event smacked of an earlier era of Hollywood where tyrannical film moguls ran the lives of their contracted artists , vetting them for indiscretions and disloyalty . |
| 4 | In ‘ generation 1 ’ , therefore , the ‘ climate ’ consisted of an equal representation of all 63 strategies . |
| 5 | The committee ( known as the Public Expenditure Survey Committee , PESC ) consisted of an inter-departmental group of departmental finance officers and Treasury officials who prepared information for decision makers . |
| 6 | His police interviews consisted of an impassioned explanation by a man at the end of his tether . |
| 7 | His police interviews consisted of an impassioned explanation by a man at the end of his tether . |
| 8 | The package , on which voting was 190 to 153 with six members absent , consisted of an immediate freeze on wages and prices , dividends , rents and local taxes until the end of 1991 . |
| 9 | The Situationists ' strategy consisted of an exploratory utopianism — a kind of heuristic projection of a future society . |
| 10 | Target for the 401st consisted of an underground fuel dump at Montbartier in France , close to the Spanish border . |
| 11 | The tomb consisted of an oblong brick vault with an arched roof high enough to allow a person buried in it to sit up with care when visited by the two examining angels , Munkar and Nekeer . |
| 12 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 13 | This book of 100 pages consisted of an edited summary of answers to a questionnaire which the two editors had sent out not only to missionaries but also to Buddhist laymen and government officials . |
| 14 | He talked of an Italian plan to stop the war and have a conference instead , he said he was in touch with France to agree a time limit for Germany to withdraw and be forgiven , it came across as craven . |
| 15 | Some blamed the government for ineffective support for their interests and conceived of an oligarchic assembly in St Petersburg which would reinforce the bonds between Tsar and nobility . |
| 16 | The Moroccan Interior Ministry had on Jan. 2 warned of an environmental catastrophe of " tragic proportions " and the loss of up to 100,000 jobs in the fishing and tourism industries . |
| 17 | Samson yowled , let go , and she was over the back of the counter crouching down , pushing and wriggling through stinking legs and skirts that reeked of an unwashed lifetime . |
| 18 | She hinted of an important secret still to be divulged . |
| 19 | ‘ Does this fact of your being a nation ’ , he inquired of an Australian audience , ‘ imply separation from the Empire ? |
| 20 | A sly grin crossed his face as he thought of an alternative billet in which to spend what remained of the night . |
| 21 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 22 | Nettlefold died of an apoplectic seizure , 22 November 1881 , at his Scottish home , Allean House , near Pitlochry , Perthshire . |
| 23 | Brian , of EMI Records , who worked with Cliff Richard , Kate Bush and Pink Floyd , died of an AIDS-related illness last Wednesday . |
| 24 | The Good God knows I would dismiss the matter as fanciful and accept that the Scottish King died of an accidental fall from his horse except for what I found , those little shreds clinging to a thorn bush on Kinghorn Ness crying out ‘ Murder ’ to the world . |
| 25 | Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said Arthur Goodhill , 78 , of Laburnum Road , Redcar , died of an industrial disease . |
| 26 | Cleveland deputy coroner Ronald Smith said Hayden Corner , 69 , of Woodhouse Road , Guisborough , died of an industrial disease . |
| 27 | A RETIRED French polisher died of an industrial disease more than 40 years after he was in contact with asbestos while refurbishing a Canadian liner , a Liverpool inquest was told . |
| 28 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 29 | In England , Joseph Chamberlain dreamed of an Anglo-Saxon-German alliance and scholarships founded by Cecil Rhodes expressed the same aspiration . |
| 30 | Koreans who had formerly looked to Japan for help against a conservative , autocratic government and for encouragement to ‘ modernize ’ now found themselves subordinated to those self same Japanese , deprived of an independent voice . |