Example sentences of "of [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US diplomats insisted that there was " no political message " behind the visit , the prime aim of which was to assess the work of locally deployed US forces and to support military reforms currently being carried out in the three countries . |
| 2 | The trial involved a formidable quantity of prosecution evidence , including six hours of secretly recorded FBI tapes and 38 witnesses , including Gotti 's former deputy and trusted friend , Salvatore " Sammy Bull " Gravano . |
| 3 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 4 | The streak is the route through which the epiblast invaginates to produce a third layer of loosely interconnected cells , the mesoderm . |
| 5 | Some areas of policy may be the subject only of unspecific recommendations , perhaps setting out a range of loosely worded options . |
| 6 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 7 | Soon the three members of Right Said Fred will put on their pop faces , two of them will put on their unplugged guitars , and they will walk along a corridor , down some stairs , into a colourfully-lit plastic cave that is part of the set for the children 's TV programme Parallel 9 . |
| 8 | In America it is widely used on the telephone system to inform callers of wrongly dialled numbers , engaged or withdrawn services and all the other announcements that would otherwise need constant human attention . |
| 9 | In full view and mirrorless , they give one deft twist , insert a couple of flamboyantly jewelled hairpins , pull out a few face-framing tendrils and recline . |
| 10 | In caring for others , in serious , dedicated friendships , in constructing individual careers made of personally discovered projects , in arranging lives of self-care and attentiveness to others who are needy … |
| 11 | Even so , without pause the report resumed its brooding concern over ‘ the apparent relaxation of standards of behaviour ’ , ‘ the lowering of hitherto established values ’ , ‘ the erosion of good standards , which were hitherto commonplace ’ and the necessity of ‘ reinforcing the values of what as a nation we had believed in for many years ’ . |
| 12 | Certainly the change in legislation is unlikely to provoke a sudden rush of hitherto tied farm workers from the industry . |
| 13 | His interest in hygiene and disinfection was evident in sales of ‘ ozone water ’ , in his patents dealing with the preparation and use of chlorine and of highly oxidized compounds of manganese , and in his authorship of five short books on the topic between 1860 and 1867 . |
| 14 | It was not at all certain , then , how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts . |
| 15 | The company was worked consistently over the years to develop special knowledge and expertise in particular areas e.g. chiral compounds and building blocks ; quaternary ammonium compounds for phase transfer catalysis and electrochemistry ; silylating agents ; a range of products for ion-selective electrode work and a comprehensive range of highly purified reagents for bio-chemistry marked under trade name Micro-Select . |
| 16 | This has important implications for the study of protein-protein interactions because it demonstrates how one protein can bind to all members of a class of highly variable proteins by means of secondary structural interactions and recognition of highly conserved residues . |
| 17 | A number of highly conserved glycines and other small residues at the C terminus of GH5 lie at or close to the turn of the β -hairpin , and presumably are required to form the hairpin without steric hindrance . |
| 18 | As the result of a planned diversification , they now provide a blend of teacher-training and general education courses with , as yet , a small number of vocationally oriented courses in such areas as business management . |
| 19 | Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep . |
| 20 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |
| 21 | Sweeney 's Brittenesque , atmospheric score provided a counterpart to McGuinness 's vision of suitably hatted dancers , as chromosomes and genes , swishing about in a vibrant multi-coloured womb . |
| 22 | We are creative , innovatory individuals but only by virtue of socially created selves , and our actions all take place in the context of patterned social relationships with others . |
| 23 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 24 | Detection of bacterially expressed CREB and ATF1 by Far Western blotting . |
| 25 | Approximately 5 ng of bacterially expressed CREB ( lanes 1-3 ) or ATF1 ( lanes 4-6 ) were resolved by SDS/PAGE transferred to nitrocellulose paper and probed with 32 P-labelled CREB as described in materials and methods . |
| 26 | If you 'd have said , I will move you sort of like went Kathleen ? |
| 27 | So it seemed plausible that these elliptical fields are stimulated best by bars orientated parallel to their long axis , and that the lack of obliquely oriented cells explained the difficulty the octopus has in distinguishing between the two diagonals . |
| 28 | ( B ) Gel shift analysis of circularly permutated GST-pou[c]-DNA complexes . |
| 29 | For examples of carefully worded questions in public opinion polls it is worth looking at the newspapers to see how very carefully the professional market research firms word their questions when they are asking ordinary people for their current political views . |
| 30 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |