Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another technique consisted of the salesman standing on the table as he called a client . |
| 2 | This programme consisted of the LGS training team remaining in the union for 6 months instead of the standard one month . |
| 3 | This icon consisted of the rectangle of the canvas as a one-colour ground visible along the edge of — and occasionally through an opening between — three or four horizontal blocks of color with brushed surfaces and furry borders . |
| 4 | She had not before this night thought of the sheep in the bus shelter . |
| 5 | Other reports in this district spoke of the reluctance of the population to express any opinion ; in one place , farmers , hearing the news of the attempt in a pub , sat ‘ dumb at the tables ’ and ‘ no one dared to say anything ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed , some commentators spoke of the ‘ Japanisation ’ of British industrial relations . |
| 7 | ( ba ) in the case of a recognised body which has at least one registered foreign lawyer as a director , member or beneficial owner of a share , the name or part of the name of a predecessor legal practice which was in practice at the time of the formation of the body , provided that such name consisted of the name or names of present or former principals and conventional references to such persons and to the practice ; |
| 8 | ( ba ) in the case of a recognised body which has at least one registered foreign lawyer as a director , member or beneficial owner of a share , the name or part of the name of a predecessor legal practice which was in practice at the time of the formation of the body , provided that such name consisted of the name or names of present or former principals and conventional references to such persons and to the practice ; |
| 9 | It is hard to be sure how much of this dark stuff Sinclair believes — as it is hard to be sure how much Eliot believed of the lore which accompanies the dark stuff of The Waste Land , another London poem . |
| 10 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 11 | Many more people thought of the works outside Europe in a way that still reflected the idea of El Dorado , or at least of immense profits , and the idea was exploited in vast manipulations of the stock exchanges in France and Britain around 1720 . |
| 12 | Several candidates spoke of the need for a coalition , and senior FNLA officials said that their party would be likely to form an alliance with other parties , including the MPLA , in a possible run-off if no single candidate won outright in the first round . |
| 13 | Several companies spoke of the special value of headhunters when moving strategically into new business and/or geographical areas . |
| 14 | Several people spoke of the advantage of needing help from their patients or clients . |
| 15 | A number of organizations from both sectors spoke of the problems of an Increase In the number of firms competing to supply particular markets , whilst a number were introducing new products onto the market and were unsure how these would fare . |