Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have arisen from the report of Levy-Agresti and Sperry ( 1968 ) that in a visuo-tactile matching task the two hemispheres of split-brain patients solved the problems in characteristically different ways . |
| 2 | Moreover , the absence of economic growth limited the government 's effectiveness to supply and fund the expanding demand for services . |
| 3 | No such lack of lush pasture afflicted the Fens , especially in the silt belt , where medieval prosperity is commemorated by mighty churches and confirmed by historians ' research into medieval and sixteenth-century tax returns . |
| 4 | Thick black curves of dry seaweed marked the reach of the tides . |
| 5 | By then Posi was asking me to explain the connection between Ardakkean phetam and the carrion bird of Old Earth called the vulture . |
| 6 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 7 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 8 | How their absence of social distinction affected the performance of their duties can only be guessed . |
| 9 | And this is how the Confederation of British Industry released the news to the press … |
| 10 | I refer him to a pamphlet that was published in the mid-1980s by an obscure group of Back-Bench MPs called the No Turning Back group . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the military power of the State remained sufficient to maintain order while the beneficial medicine of socioeconomic development consolidated the bases for a western-style pluralist democracy . |
| 12 | Finally , and most significantly , the public would be seriously worried , whatever the prevailing view in the laboratory , if it were to chink that little of moral significance separated the killing of animals from that of certain groups of human beings such as babies or imbeciles . |
| 13 | Saturday 's last day of the season open on the middle Swale proved an anticlimax as three foot of cold water chilled the Maunby to Ainderby reaches spoiling what had promised to be a chub bonanza . |
| 14 | A river of molten rock overwhelmed the last of five big dykes , hurriedly built by villagers to protect their homes , and surrounded Signor Giuseppe Fichera 's farm cottage , only 150 yards from the nearest permanently inhabited house . |
| 15 | Rising levels of output , high employment , rising living standards and expanded trade within a relatively stable framework of international finance marked the ‘ long post-war boom ’ that stretched from the mid-1940s through the 1950s , 1960s and part of the 1970s . |
| 16 | The rise of a class of capitalist employers predicated the emergence of defensive labour organisations , but this separation of interests long pre-dated the arrival of the factory and the " industrial revolution " as normally envisaged . |
| 17 | Contamination of environmental surfaces within the Edinburgh outpatient clinic did not appear to be of clinical significance given the scarcity of evidence for nosocomial spread . |
| 18 | A row of curtainless windows punctuated the wall behind the sink , all of them opaque with ancient grime . |
| 19 | The hubbub rose , a brigade of pinafored governesses distributed the curling salami sandwiches and warm white wine . |
| 20 | Lying in the clear aquamarine waters of the Atlantic ocean to the east of Florida are a cluster of idyllic islands called The Bahamas . |
| 21 | The rule-based approach proved to be too unwieldy and fragile to be of practical use given the current state of computer hardware and linguistic theories . |
| 22 | They have recognised the necessity of temporary working given the particular circumstances of the enterprise concerned , and have sought , where possible , to ensure , that temporary workers otherwise enjoy the same terms and conditions as regular workers . |
| 23 | The scent of boiling greens saturated the air . |
| 24 | A clownish mosaic of shifting hues attired the Harlequin . |
| 25 | Each had its own project to attend to … checking on nesting boxes they had some months earlier put among the trees … on the stream … recording the height of various trees planted the autumn before … and there was also some weeding to be done , as always , among the ranks of young trees . |
| 26 | To the north of Petersfield is a series of steep-sided hills called the Hampshire Hangers . |
| 27 | I went to university at the Sorbonne in Paris , entered the royal service , and joined the French crown 's legion of secret agents called the Luciferi , the Light-Bearers . |
| 28 | Common experience of Celtic attacks consolidated the friendship in the fourth century . |
| 29 | Only a stretch of exotic gardens separated the villa from the beach . |
| 30 | Even small amounts of out-of-hours work are disruptive of one 's home life , the quality of which is of vital importance given the stressful nature of the team 's regular work . |