Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Local Government Planning Act of 1980 introduced major changes in the structure of the rate support grant , as follows : |
| 2 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 3 | On top of each put little pieces of anchovy fillet ( or anchovy paste squeezed from a tube ) and/or halved , stoned black olives . |
| 4 | Will these include the ones of each held this year , last year that , that have n't been undertaken ? |
| 5 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 6 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 7 | In 3 games , Town have lost 2 and drawn one and on top of that had two players sent-off on Saturday . |
| 8 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 9 | Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship . |
| 10 | Similarly in the New Forest an Act of 1697 gave statutory powers to the local ‘ Verderers ’ Court' to impose fines for such offences as stealing timber , burning the heath and destroying the covert . |
| 11 | According to a 1988 census about one-quarter of Brussels ' population of 9,927,000 comprised foreign nationals , including 135,000 from Maghreb countries ; many thousands more north Africans were known to have arrived illegally since then . |
| 12 | CORE was launched in 1980 to oppose the importing of foreign spent nuclear fuel through the docks at Barrow-in-Furness , forty miles to the south of the site . |
| 13 | The words were rushing out and Emily realized with surprise that she was actually nervous of this composed young woman standing before her . |
| 14 | None of this brought much comfort to William Joyce . |
| 15 | The logic of this defied Irish women who were forced to deduce that the spectacle of women wielding pints must offend male sensibilities at a very deep level , especially those who equated pint-downing by women with lesbian leisure . |
| 16 | In June he put on a military demonstration for Yeltsin , and out of this grew friendly relations . |
| 17 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 18 | Confimation of this came last week when the longest-ever Education Bill was set before Parliament . |
| 19 | None of this left much room for openly expressed admiration for other countries , particularly small and peripheral ones . |
| 20 | But none of this had much importance . |
| 21 | None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start . |
| 22 | The mindlessness of this acquired behavioural numbness is illustrated by the contrary phenomenon of sensitisation : almost any irrelevant but novel stimulus can instantly destroy habitation 's insensitivity . |
| 23 | Since the logic of this eluded most people , it seemed reasonable to conclude that he was belatedly paying the price for arguing with an umpire . |
| 24 | None of this caused any problem at all as it was something Sylvia was well able to do in reality . |
| 25 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 26 | None of this dampened German feelings of superiority . |
| 27 | The results of this included some abandonment of cultivation in areas such as Dartmoor , where high contour settlements seem to have been effectively deserted by 1350 , and problems in farming on heavy soils which could suffer from waterlogging . |
| 28 | The creation of the Ministry of Health in 1919 registered a self-conscious application of this moralized medical ideology . |
| 29 | I have played parts of this set several times over , long into the night … ( ) |
| 30 | But only one out of 115 interviewed last year found work compared with one out of 52 the previous year . |