Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 2 | The major part of the output is used within ICI , chiefly for acrylic plastics , paints and a group of products called functional methacrylates . |
| 3 | The collection of essays entitled New Essays in Philosophical Theology , edited by Antony Flew and Alasdair McIntyre , is unmissable and full of ideas . |
| 4 | On this side of the Webi , undulating grasslands rose to distant hills , and strips of woodland bordered numerous streams . |
| 5 | A TEI dtd ( or , more exactly , a view of the TEI dtd ) is composed of the core tagsets , a single base tagset and any number of user selected additional tagsets or ‘ toppings ’ . |
| 6 | The number of contracts undertaken each year is approaching 10,000 deriving from thousands of customers in 50 countries , but 14 top customers in the UK and Europe still account for 70% of all business sales . |
| 7 | The former reflects the effects of contracts formed last period currently in their first period , and the latter reflects the effects of contracts formed two periods ago now in their second period . |
| 8 | Joint studies in 1953 did produce agreement that the Zagros mountains ( in Iran ) provided the best line of defence given appropriate support on the flanks from Iraq to Pakistan . |
| 9 | In the USA and Canada the action for breach of statutory duty is regarded as a species of negligence called statutory negligence . |
| 10 | ‘ Never before ’ , wrote Joseph Husband , ‘ had such a car been seen ; never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence . ’ |
| 11 | The work of T. S. Kuhn ( 1963 ) , and others since , has of course challenged this belief ; although Kuhn talks of science in general terms , most of his examples are taken from physics . |
| 12 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 13 | In the last quarter of the 19th century sections of double track were opened in order to cope with the many freight and passenger trains which used the line , which of course saved many miles between the NW of England and SW Wales . |
| 14 | National trends such as the predominance of private housing since the 1950s ( figure 5.2 ) and the decline in private rental have of course affected rural areas also . |
| 15 | This study has of course raised new problems , and thereby opened up avenues for further investigation . |
| 16 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 17 | Potentes of course played key roles at court : Lupus himself was happy to seek , and use , their " cooperation " . |
| 18 | The loss of their common rights of course caused great hardship among the poor of the forest districts . |
| 19 | At Robertsbridge coaling was merely one branch of a complex operation which produced cordwood for fuel , as well as inch-board , ship board and planking , which of course kept numerous sawyers busy . |
| 20 | Lord Nuffield of course established these hospitals here with a gift that now would amount to something like forty or fifty million in present day terms and without him where would our hospitals be ? |
| 21 | The review of RAWP also examined the use of census based socioeconomic variables ( so called ‘ social deprivation ’ factors ) to explain variation in health service use over and above that associated with the standardised mortality ratio . |
| 22 | Well we might consider frenzied and suspect — ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees ’ , though we must be careful of course because in the formal style of Paradise Lost such opening addresses are common . |
| 23 | But not when you put it into context with the vast sums of money spent supporting privatization , or the salaries of over privileged , so called captains of industries , industries that once belonged to this nation . |
| 24 | It forms part of a strikingly different range of designs called Italian Fruits — though this is the exception . |
| 25 | The superiority of subjects given preliminary training in applying labels over control subjects given no pre-training has been repeatedly confirmed by experimenters using procedures closely similar to those just described ( Goss 1953 ; Smith and Goss 1955 ; Battig 1956 ; Holton and Goss 1956 ; Goss and Greenfield 1958 ) . |
| 26 | The discovery of dopamine and its mode of action involved basic experiments on catecholamines in animals carried out at Oxford ; it contributed to the development of L-dopa as a treatment for Parkinson 's disease . |
| 27 | The latter was the course of action taken that day . |
| 28 | Thus that great American geologist , A. W. Grabau , wrote a whole series of books entitled Palaeozoic Formations in the Light of the Pulsation Theory . |
| 29 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 30 | financial services users of search placed greater emphasis on the costs of headhunting , with more justification , as they were paying out more . |