Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spray of trotter-bone pegs hit the ground and bounced into the darkness , followed by the crack and snap of thin flags flipping and breaking . |
| 2 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 3 | However , in Hopkins ' case the aim of reforming intervention remained the overt regulation of working-class behaviour , especially of working-class women . |
| 4 | Before he could find it , the whoop of fast-approaching sirens filled the night . |
| 5 | At the same time a majority of 23 per cent of Labour partisans claimed the BBC was pro-Conservative and anti-Labour . |
| 6 | A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively . |
| 7 | A Department of Labour inspector visited the factory on 28 May . |
| 8 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 9 | A form of feudal tenure governed the relations of the Christian peasantry to their Ottoman overlords . |
| 10 | Richard Saunher of the Organization of American States ' Department of Regional Development informed the April 1987 Sustainable Development Conference , in London , that ‘ a concern for sustainable development certainly does not consciously guide our work . |
| 11 | Between the wars , the incidence of regional deprivation heightened the problems of these areas , already afflicted by a backlog of unfit housing , congestion and overcrowding . |
| 12 | This belief in the efficacy of economic sanctions reflected the continuing hold of ‘ imperialist pacifism ’ in the popular imagination . |
| 13 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |
| 14 | According to a member of the United States delegation , a spirit of economic warfare permeated the conference . |
| 15 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 16 | Its century of political independence forestalled the possibility of ‘ skipping ’ this stage , as was proposed for the colonial countries of the East . |
| 17 | An ardent sentiment of revolutionary romanticism tempered by a clear sense of political realism formed the texture of Nizan 's thinking at this juncture . |
| 18 | A month of political unrest followed the killing of at least 12 people during a one-day general strike in the capital , Kathmandu , on April 6 . |
| 19 | The early success and popularity of rural reforms encouraged the introduction of economic change in urban areas . |
| 20 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England described the move as the most significant step to incorporate wider environmental concerns into the British planning system . |
| 21 | FERRANTI 'S shares encountered hectic trading when they returned from suspension yesterday as a host of conflicting rumours swept the stock market over the company 's future . |
| 22 | The growth of private estates increased the burdens for the Christian peasants of the raya and , increasingly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , protests against the extortion and virtual peonage which the çiftlik system imposed on them provided fuel for the fires of peasant revolts . |
| 23 | Private buying or dealers bidding on behalf of private collectors dominated the Korthaus section of the sale , helping to explain the , at times , high prices . |
| 24 | It was noted that a presidential decree issued in May banning the sale of private property violated the constitutionally assured right to private ownership . |
| 25 | Only the constant clicking of the camera shutters of the army of photographers and the intermittent bursts of rapturous applause broke the expectant hush that January afternoon , for Yves Saint Laurent is one of the few important couturiers to show in the old manner , with no mood-setting background music . |
| 26 | Shiny swathes of gold , scarlet and black fabric had been draped from the ceiling , while between the gaudy bolts a brand-new wallpaper of rose-covered trellis disguised the damp patches of the ballroom 's plaster . |
| 27 | Amid seismic pressures threatening American society , the jurors of Simi Valley upheld the only defences they respect : boots , clubs , electric stun guns and other appurtenances of society 's present sure foundation . |
| 28 | A delegation of European MPs joined the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers and the European Commission in Strasbourg on May 17 for a preparatory inter-institutional conference on the role of the European Parliament in the context of political , economic and monetary integration . |
| 29 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 30 | An additional supply of exogenous bFGF accelerated the ulcer healing probably due to the increased angiogenesis and the proliferation of cells such as myofibroblasts in the granulation tissue . |