Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 2 | Hugh McLeod has written of the lower-class , ‘ the arbitrary ruler of their world was not God but Fate . ’ |
| 3 | Christopher Tugendhat , a former Commissioner , has written of the dreamlike sensation in Brussels , where the daily drama of Community life goes almost entirely unreported in the national newspapers on sale in the city . |
| 4 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | What has become of the proletarian consciousness of this working-class town in ‘ The Little Red Province ’ ? |
| 7 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 8 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 9 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 10 | Hitherto , although the structure of the motion has become increasingly complex , the time scale of the velocity fluctuations has remained of the same order as the period of the initial wave . |
| 11 | Its aim is to understand the historical origins and the development in the successive cultural milieux through which the Christian faith has passed of the major doctrines in which these beliefs have been expressed ; and it is particularly concerned with the contemporary appraisal and formulation of these doctrines in view of the dominant directions of modern thought , and with their ecumenical prospects . |
| 12 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 13 | A senior government official in Kazakhstan has warned of the growing danger posed by unsupervised dumping of industrial waste including components or instruments with powerful sources of ionizing radiation . |
| 14 | Captain Kepler Wessels has complained of the indecent haste in agreeing to play the series in the West Indies so soon after the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 15 | So all it is , is , says , sure that that 's that , so what I 'm gon na do is say the modules of Z one is the square root of five squared plus one squared , so if I want the modules of Z one squared then all I 've got is five squared plus one squared , cos when I 've squared it , it gets rid of the square root , which is , do n't you think , . |