Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [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 | Accusations of racism dogged the conservative General Election campaign in Cheltenham from start to finish . |
| 6 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 7 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From vitality of faith sprang the great cathedrals of France and England . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the Chicago School of course recognised the various forms of conscious and institutional forms of control which only conceptualising human beings could achieve . |
| 12 | By missing the first flight we of course missed the connecting flight to the USA . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Other sources of funding included the Derelict Land Grant and MSC resources . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | On June 18 , a Senate commission of inquiry issued its report on the transfusion system , noting delay in implementing a screening process , a fragmented decision-making process and a system in which " the logic of industry allowed the professional code of ethics to be disregarded " . |
| 19 | In Italy the technological renovation of industry altered the basic conditions of employment in different ways across various firms and sectors , resulting in the general clauses of national agreements becoming obsolete and moving the centre of industrial conflict towards the enterprise itself ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | In both the United States and Britain those of a conservative turn of mind regretted the 1960s ’ emphasis on rights , especially welfare rights and , as they saw it , the decline of the concomitant sense of obligation to state and society . |
| 21 | It may be wondered whether the risk of harm outweighed the public policy behind horseplay — boys will be boys . |
| 22 | The combined forces of opposition ruptured the earlier environmentalist consensus , making opponents out of former allies , staking out a new regime of sexual regulation and defining sexuality as a crucial site for feminist intervention . |
| 23 | A sharp gust of wind set the whole tree in motion and he dung on desperately like a sailor in the rigging , remembering Dalziel 's jocular injunction to ‘ watch himself ’ . |
| 24 | How each evening his thoughts festered and multiplied , decimating chasms of grief littered the shining path of sleep . |
| 25 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 26 | The Guinness Articles of Association relaxed the general rule of equity , which forbids a trustee to profit from his trust , to the extent of enabling a director to make such a profit provided the Board of Directors of the company approved any special remuneration . |
| 27 | Other erupted on it , while hostile lances of light sought the gaping wounds those explosions had opened … |
| 28 | Although the sun was bright overhead , here in the bog , a scrubby area of marsh and pools on one side of a stream , and a wood on the bank where they walked , only small shafts of light penetrated the green gloom . |
| 29 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 30 | From then on an element of tragi-comedy gripped the entire enterprise . |