Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the allies decided that the Kurds and the Armenians should be given states of their own in what is now eastern Turkey . |
| 2 | Sun claims to have developed 80% of Unix System Labs Inc 's Unix SVR4 operating system , and SunSoft is disappointed that its former technology partner had chosen to go into competition against Solaris . |
| 3 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 4 | The er jury are going to be given copies of these collator cards are they ? |
| 5 | Undergraduates were also given groups of consonants and asked to recall as many as possible in their correct position after various time delays . |
| 6 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 7 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 8 | As with bad debts , the purchaser will insist on warranties covering the scope and extent of creditors and the fact that all creditors have been paid in accordance with usual practice in the ordinary course of business and that the vendor has not delayed payment of the creditors as completion approaches . |
| 9 | We have heard cases of players being offered £5,000 to change clubs . |
| 10 | I have heard cases of erm planes being lost in in er crops chu chur churned up ! |
| 11 | Religious leaders have developed ideologies of natural law and the common good to reinforce the Roman catholic element . |
| 12 | Now only the heavily contaminated heart of the machine remains |
| 13 | The brick built and slated roof mill was built around 1840–41 , in what must have formed part of the garden , and was obviously steam-powered from that date . |
| 14 | For many years they had formed part of The Market Place surface . |
| 15 | First-hand involvement in areas such as identifying staffing requirements for the delivery of the curriculum , financial matters relating to capitation , and personnel management issues , have not usually formed part of their educational experience . |
| 16 | He indicated that he would introduce whatever evidence he thought to be appropriate , regardless of whether such evidence had formed part of the reasons for the suspension or not . |
| 17 | A decision to let ICI 's bioscience businesses demerge would mark a sharp break with a tradition that has formed part of the company 's culture since it started : the tradition of the cartel . |
| 18 | The recognition that there are authors who have not traditionally formed part of the literary ‘ canon ’ in the past may also lead to discussion about present-day social inequalities . |
| 19 | These texts were often inscribed on woodwork which had formed part of the old rood screens , reredoses , and triptychs ; this was the case at Binham Priory in Norfolk , where the medieval paintings of saints are now showing through the worn whitewash and black-letter Protestant text . |
| 20 | The earliest date at which these four could have formed part of an ‘ organised backlash ’ would have been at least eighteen months after what Hall et al. |
| 21 | Set against the resentment which their greed aroused , the administrative reforms which the younger Despenser together with the Chancellor Robert Baldock and the Treasurer Walter Stapleton implemented between 1322 and 1326 were of little political significance , despite the fact that some of their measures , such as the reduction in the financial independence of the Wardrobe , had formed part of the Ordainers ' programme in 1310 . |
| 22 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 23 | Rather neatly , the sale 's top lot , Mrs Johnson 's bureau plat by Leleu , which sold on a commission bid at £1.1. million ( $2 million ; estimate in excess of £750,000 ) , had been purchased by her from Christie 's for £300,000 in 1981 , where it had been consigned from Meikleour , having formed part of the original collection . |
| 24 | Rayner , a Marks and Spencer executive , had the support of five or six full-time civil servants — the Efficiency Unit — which since July 1983 has formed part of the Cabinet Office . |
| 25 | It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief . |
| 26 | Virtually every house on the coast was built from stout oak planks , each timber bearing unmistakable signs of having once formed part of a wooden ship . |
| 27 | A tract entitled The Manner of Passing Bills in Parliament , published in 1685 , may have formed part of the same work . |
| 28 | While this may have formed part of the rationale for the application of natural justice , the major reason for the development of the doctrine was the protection of property rights and interests akin thereto . |
| 29 | Wild animals have always formed part of the diet , depending on the existence of any natural habitat in the locality of the settlement . |
| 30 | Sihanouk 's return ended almost 13 years in exile , where he had formed part of the tripartite " Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea " with the Khmers Rouges and the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) led by Son Sann . |