Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Boyd was reminded of the howling noise of that fearful storm by his wife 's tantrum . |
| 32 | While on the subject of identification , I am reminded of the old lady who , many years ago , before the importation of tortoises was quite rightly banned , purchased one from our pet department . |
| 33 | On first loading Millenium Warriors , I was strongly reminded of the old Palace classic Barbarian . |
| 34 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 35 | As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) . |
| 36 | The Scarman Enquiry reported of the physical conditions in the Dollis Hill premises in which the mail order department then moved , that ‘ save for the mischance with the air-conditioning in a hot summer ’ , they were ‘ excellent ’ . |
| 37 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 38 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 39 | An analysis should be given of the total amount of non-equity interests in shareholders ' funds relating to each class of non-equity shares and series of warrants for non-equity shares . |
| 40 | Brief summaries are then given of the relevant programme of study to be followed by pupils in the age groups 5 to 7 , 7 to 11 , 11 to 14 and 14 to 16 . |
| 41 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 42 | As I have already remarked , no details are given of the other party or parties to the transactions entered into by these investors . |
| 43 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 44 | No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings . |
| 45 | This relates to a more basic question concerning the sorts of explanations that are to be given of the cross-national variations that are discovered . |
| 46 | Although no explanation is given of the stunned response of her fellow pilgrims at the end of her tale : their response is not difficult to understand . |
| 47 | We can begin here by reflecting that the account so far given of the internal culture of the academic community is somewhat misleading . |
| 48 | Examples are given of the working documents which should emerge from this process , in keeping with a school 's priority . |
| 49 | Yet another complicating factor is that the account given of the generic team 's work with elderly clients is bound to be only a partial exemplification of whatever advantages may be claimed for the generic model , whether of professional practice or of staff development . |
| 50 | A description will now be given of the aetiological theories and relationships that lipids and lipoprotein levels may have with atherosclerosis . |
| 51 | In London on Wednesday details will be given of the Royal Review to be held at RAF Marham in Norfolk on 1 April to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force . |
| 52 | In contrast , the disquieting literature of more dissident bourgeois intellectuals/writers such as Andre Malraux , Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet is unreservedly praised , and a sympathetic account is given of the cultural activity of working-class writers such as Georgette Gueguen-Dreyfus , Eugene Dabit and Andre Philippe . |
| 53 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) quote figures that suggest a rate of boring into limpet ( Patella ) shells of 0.175 mm per hour but no details are given of the relative sizes of predator and prey , or of the temperature . |
| 54 | A literal translation is given of the Arabic themes to highlight the partial loss of orientation through discontinuity of theme . |
| 55 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 56 | copies of the Rules of the proposed British Gas Executive Share Option Scheme and British Gas ( Overseas Employees ) Share Option Scheme and of the Rules as amended of the British Gas Sharesave Scheme and of the Trust Deed and Rules of the British Gas Employee Profit Sharing Scheme * . |
| 57 | During the research project into the architectural and archaeological development of the Saxon church of St Mary at Deerhurst , a survey was undertaken of the local parishes and the former Saxon estate of the monastery centred on St Mary 's . |
| 58 | Rather ironically , given the ‘ note of condescension , almost of contempt , [ which ] characterises Dicey 's exposition of continental constitutions ’ , almost all studies undertaken of the French system of droit administratif have cast doubt on the superiority of the British approach and have concluded that the French system provides greater protections than our own . |
| 59 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 60 | ‘ Have you heard of the Penal Times ? |