Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since culture of PBL in the presence of cycloheximide greatly reduced ELISA index values ( mean 0.87 [ 0.11 ] ) , the antibodies detected must have been newly synthesised .
2 Provincial branches of Narkomzem only contacted Moscow when in need of salaries and funds — otherwise they led independent lives .
3 so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts .
4 Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit .
5 Southwards of Paris , the loyalty of Archbishop Wenilo of Sens and Bishop Jonas of Orléans probably helped Charles to install his men in the key abbacies of Fleury and ( as we 've seen ) Ferrières , when the previous incumbents left to join Lothar .
6 It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials .
7 But the Department of Industry recently threw £½ million into the ring in an effort to get firms to adapt their software for use in schools .
8 THE DEPARTMENT of Industry recently risked rebuff and organised a teach-in for the press on fibre-optic technology .
9 She sat with her until the exhaustion of grief finally drove Ana to sleep and silence , then Maggie went to wait for Felipe .
10 In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts .
11 The rhetorical use of anthropology inevitably involved Marx and Engels in a search of the anthropological literature for examples of opposites to the institutions of capitalism .
12 The chairman of Lufthansa recently visited Moscow where he made a speech referring pointedly to the close relationship the German airline enjoyed with the Russians in the 1920s and 1930s .
13 Consider a polymer chain consisting of r covalently bonded segments whose size is the same as the solvent molecules , i.e. where V 1 is the molar volume of component i .
14 However , the bishop of Worcester normally paid £10 , while at Feckenham the fee was given as no less than £14. 16s. 10½d. , but this perhaps included services in connexion with the forest administration .
15 Did he sincerely hope to persuade his readers that the Gaels of the west of Scotland uncritically adored George III ?
16 During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland .
17 CAUTIOUS trading statements and mediocre results from a large number of companies today kept investors secured on the sidelines .
18 but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents .
19 ( First Edition ) THE LEAGUE 'S board of directors yesterday found Castleford and Hull guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by brawling in their Wheldon Road meeting 10 days ago , and fined each club £3,000 , writes Paul Wilson .
20 Just to make the view complete , the Countess of Coventry even built Broadway Tower folly on the skyline fifteen miles away .
21 Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ?
22 Losses of personal possessions , money and items of kit inevitably took place at these spots .
23 Henry reluctantly agreed not to act on the papal permission , but John of Salisbury never forgave Arnulf for placing royal interest ahead of papal prerogatives .
24 In 1836 Dr Louis Stromeyer of Hanover successfully undertook tendo Achilles division for Little 's club-foot deformity .
25 One US group of families recently visited Britain and started to agitate for action .
26 The Backup and Restore utilities supplied with previous versions of MS-DOS never won Microsoft any bouquets .
27 The leader of the radicial Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine yesterday urged militants to abduct more Israelis to win Yassin 's release .
28 The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place .
29 Only 13 per cent of patients regularly wore compression hosiery ; a few nurses commented that their patients would be wearing the hosiery when the ulcer was healed , but many stated that their patients were too old , frail or disabled to get it on .
30 Preliminary use of this method in a small number of patients successfully detected PVO .
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