Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little beads of moisture dotted the upper lip . |
| 2 | They found that even small amounts of capsaicin increased the perceived strength of the solutions . |
| 3 | The wave of change buckled the hated wall and rolled all the way across the continent to the Kremlin 's front door . |
| 4 | But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand . |
| 5 | It has been reported that the addition of minute amounts of phosphatidylcholines normalised the short nucleation time of bile from patients with cholesterol gall stones while having only a minimal effect on the cholesterol saturation index . |
| 6 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 7 | In fact , in 1480 the chapter of Windsor secured the appropriated rectory of North Marston itself , presumably to control and maximize the market . |
| 8 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 9 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 10 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 11 | The following season he was Celtic 's star player in a memorable cup final when his heroic saves and faultless display of goalkeeping held the great Rangers side of the early ‘ 60s to a 1–1 draw . |
| 12 | From vitality of faith sprang the great cathedrals of France and England . |
| 13 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School of course recognised the various forms of conscious and institutional forms of control which only conceptualising human beings could achieve . |
| 15 | By missing the first flight we of course missed the connecting flight to the USA . |
| 16 | The addition of Sheffield brought the total number of UDCs to eleven and the government has stated that there will be no other UDCs before 1992 . |
| 17 | Nicolas Pereira of Venezuela won the only other match beating American Alex O'Brien in three sets by 6–7 , 6–3 , 7–6 . |
| 18 | The reported number of cases underestimated the actual frequency of the crime , but it bore a reasonably constant relationship to the real frequency . |
| 19 | LOGIE Kirk and the University of Stirling celebrated the 25th anniversary of their special relationship in a church service this spring . |
| 20 | In particular , recourse to the quantity theory of money enabled the classical writers to pin down the absolute price level and this , together with a knowledge of the full-employment real wage rate , w * ; , made the money wage rate a determinate variable . |
| 21 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 22 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 23 | However , the recognition by the General Assembly of the unification of the Federal and the Democratic Republics of Germany restored the total membership to 159 . |
| 24 | In Mexico , during the Wars of Independence the Virgin of Guadalupe protected the nationalist forces while the Spaniards placed their trust in the Virgen de los Remedios . |
| 25 | The Gordon Bennett races made way for the first Grand Prix in 1906 when Szisz of Romania won the inaugural French Grand Prix at Le Mans . |
| 26 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 27 | For magazines such as the Illustrated London News the solution was to bolt a number of small blocks together ; but for full-page scientific pictures the technique of lithography became the standard one . |
| 28 | Precisely the same fear of revaluation underlay the continual reluctance of the German and Japanese authorities to see their currencies held as reserves by other countries . |
| 29 | Other sources of funding included the Derelict Land Grant and MSC resources . |
| 30 | On April 7 a 36-member joint delegation of the standing committee of the National Integration Council ( NIC ) and members of parliament visited the disputed site of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid ( temple-mosque ) in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh [ see pp. 37964 ; 38391 ; 38532 ; 38682 ] . |