Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the wigwam crawled the boy who d shot the arrow . |
| 2 | In the dithyramb , the potent Dionysiac music and the accompanying movements of the dance symbolized the agony and the joy of this aspiration . |
| 3 | In the centre of a large green , a wooden seat , built around three large oaks , was made for village gossips , and at the far end of the green stood an inn — the Golden Fleece . |
| 4 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 5 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 6 | One " rule " which the team adhered to until very near the end of the evaluation concerned the number and size of grants made in any year . |
| 7 | The completion of the jigsaw established an inn clinging precariously to the far edge of the moor . |
| 8 | The portico of St Paul 's in London was let out to shopkeepers , and the main body of the church became a cavalry stables . |
| 9 | The laws of the Church made a man look outside his kindred for a wife , and the dynasts made virtue of necessity and constructed elaborate alliances by their marriages . |
| 10 | An additional concern of the church remained the fear of socialism . |
| 11 | Not all the members of the Church welcomed the instantaneousness of resignation and appointment . |
| 12 | Debate over the security of the Church found a focus in the Convocation controversy , largely triggered by Francis Atterbury 's famous tract , Letter to a Convocation Man of late 1696 , where he argued that the only way to stem the growth of heresy and blasphemy was through Convocation , the Church 's own deliberative and legislative body . |
| 13 | Philip son of Adam le Lechur was hanged at Petworth for theft , but by the breaking of the rope escaped alive , and flying to the refuge of the church abjured the realm . |
| 14 | The banning of the ordeal symbolized a triumph for rational argument over the old magical formulas . |
| 15 | The nature of the conflict obliged the city fathers to extend the membership of the ‘ nation ’ far beyond those who would customarily have been considered . |
| 16 | In addition , the complexity of the purely military aspects of the conflict advised the appointment of someone to take overall command of the Armed Forces . |
| 17 | Although obscured by the regional and global struggles surrounding it , the local struggle at the centre of the conflict remained the most explicit and the most inimical . |
| 18 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 19 | She sat in lecture theatres and nodded eager agreement as the Young Turks of the Faculty demolished the idea of the author , the idea of the self , the idea of establishing a single , univocal meaning for a literary text . |
| 20 | From the inside of the hut came a thumping and screeching as the cassowary tested her dungeon . |
| 21 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 22 | However , the end of the poker ripped the knuckles of the hand he had thrust up to shield himself and blood was spattered on to his face . |
| 23 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 24 | Bacteria — like t–modern cyanobacteria ( above left ) , growing on the surface of the soil evolved the ability first . |
| 25 | The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol . |
| 26 | My pleasure at the success of the operation turned a bit sour when the others calmly walked up the road and photographed the animal with standard lenses — and it did n't even bother getting up . |
| 27 | The decency and morality of the home confronted the danger and the pollution of the public sphere ; the joys and the ‘ naturalness ’ of the home countered the ‘ corruption ’ , the artificiality of the streets , badly lit , unhygienic , dangerous and immoral . |
| 28 | The decency and morality of the home confronted the danger and the pollution of the public sphere ; the joys and the ‘ naturalness ’ of the home countered the ‘ corruption ’ , the artificiality of the streets , badly lit , unhygienic , dangerous and immoral . |
| 29 | Paragraph 33 of the order prohibited the use of the material so disclosed in the prosecution of either defendant . |
| 30 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |