Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast to the barn owl , all the other species of owl showed some degree of digestion of the molars of their prey , even when clearly coming from adult birds only . |
| 2 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 3 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 4 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 5 | Median visual analogue scores over the first 3 days of admission showed less breathlessness in the NIPPV group ( 2.3 cm [ range 0.1–5.5 ] ) than in the control group ( 4.5 cm [ range 0.9–8.8 ] ) ( p < 0.025 ) . |
| 6 | A flash of lightning and a peel of thunder heralded torrential rain and a squally wind . |
| 7 | In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community . |
| 8 | ‘ The Ministry of Defence had another item of information for us . |
| 9 | If the Ministry of Defence had any use for it , it would n't have been sold . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that the Army had finally lost patience and given him a month 's notice to quit . |
| 11 | The concept of satyāgraha gave practical expression to the religious and ethical ideals of Truth and non-violence . |
| 12 | An awareness club in the area of Computer Assisted Formal Reasoning is being formed . |
| 13 | BIOSYM Technologies Inc. is an acknowledged leader in the provision of computer aided molecular design ( CAMD ) software . |
| 14 | Progress in this area is currently being achieved by very active research in the area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work ( CSCW ) . |
| 15 | The Minister of Agriculture assumed direct responsibility for a number of services between 1937 and 1944 , and in the post-war years local authorities lost their hospitals to the National Health Service ( NHS ) and their gas and electricity undertakings to nationalised boards . |
| 16 | However , as a corollary to this , my increasingly strident expressions of discontent put considerable pressure on me to live up to my rhetoric . |
| 17 | Mr Ferrucci denied that the continued dispute over the safety of asbestos had any part in the company 's decision to close the factory , though he admitted that the environmental difficulties experienced were ‘ more severe ’ than Raybestos had expected , and no other Raybestos Manhattan factories were being closed down . |
| 18 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 19 | Of the opposition sides , Bay of Plenty replaced one player while Richard Loe , who left the field during the First Test , was the only other casualty . |
| 20 | The results showed that 69 per cent of all beech and 78 per cent of yew had some form of dieback . |
| 21 | The Act of Parliament received Royal Assent and from I January 1948 , the London Passenger Transport Board became the London Transport Executive as one of the integral parts of the British Transport Commission . |
| 22 | He was not acting illegally , as no Act of Parliament gave statutory force to the terms of the Charter of 1844 . |
| 23 | Rather than accepting the idea of a new world order based on the community of nations as expressed through the United Nations , security is to be expressed through a series of Western- dominated collective security structures . |
| 24 | The food was not very nice ; the regiment of cutlery ranged either side of her plate took any appetite away . |
| 25 | At midnight Pétain in his first act of command telephoned General Balfourier , the commander of XX Corps : |
| 26 | Other trusts based on the profits of industry gave increasing support to medical research , and the pharmaceutical industry , rapidly becoming international in its outlook and activities , promoted its own laboratories directed towards the discovery of new drugs . |
| 27 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 28 | As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage , for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage , there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships . |
| 29 | It was impossible to see in the dark whether the habitual spark of irony accompanied this remark . |
| 30 | The announcement of the devaluation and the attendant massive fall in the standard of living caused total panic at every level of society . |