Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 2 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 3 | With singer Bradley acting out his Mozzer fantasies by lurching around on top of the monitors — only lacking a bunch of daffs stuffed down the back of his pants — their arrogance level has been hoisted a welcome couple of notches . |
| 4 | His 12-day taste of freedom slimmed down the heavyweight performer who has notched six wins from 16 starts . |
| 5 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 6 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 7 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 8 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 9 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 10 | Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn . |
| 11 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , I dropped the paintbrush , which of course went down the loo . |
| 13 | And somehow the regret in Friend 's banner of meanings cancelled out the bitter mould-taste of failure that the garden-master had cultured inside her . |
| 14 | A loan is a sum of money borrowed over a period of time at a certain rate of interest . |
| 15 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 16 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 17 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 18 | Towards the date for closure of Banstead , in mid-1986 , two researchers from the national offices of MIND carried out a brief study of the closure process . |
| 19 | In 1936 the Ministry of Labour carried out a pioneer survey of private sector employers ' pension scheme membership , finding that women comprised about 20 per cent of the total membership of around 1.6 million persons . |
| 20 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 21 | The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds . |
| 22 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 23 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 24 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 25 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 26 | All heads of department carried on a voluminous correspondence with this official . |
| 27 | An application of brakes slowed down the clickety-click of the rail joints . |
| 28 | New codes of practice set out the standards of service to expect . |
| 29 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 30 | The door opened and a shaft of light fell down the aisle . |