Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun prp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 2 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 3 | Lord Melchett , educated at Eton , former Labour Minister of State for Northern Ireland , became head of Greenpeace at the beginning of 1989 , near the beginning of the membership boom . |
| 4 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 5 | The next year he displayed photographs of Ireland at the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 6 | Ironically , Morris could well have found himself taking charge of Glamorgan at the start of the season . |
| 7 | Starting at the outskirts of Pinderfields , it 's a solid 13 miles of undulating tarmac broken up only by the grass playing fields of Pinderfields at the finish . |
| 8 | On Jan. 24 Eberhard Diepgen , 49 , was elected mayor of Berlin at the head of a Senate ( cabinet ) comprising eight CDU and seven SPD members , of whom three came from East Berlin . |
| 9 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 10 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 11 | ICI expects to be able to resume production of Alloprene at the site , even though the fire affected all five storeys of the building containing the drying oven at the centre of the blaze . |