Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents ’ marriage was not approved of by my father 's family , although my mother was a Darcy and well connected . |
| 2 | Funny how her life was always thought of as pre-Fernando days . |
| 3 | Fascism was not thought of as a separate subject on the school curriculum , but the history of how Mussolini came to power was dealt with at length at the end of the modern history text-books . |
| 4 | At this stage , she says , the project was still conceived of as a relatively modest 13-part series , and neither video nor merchandising seemed a great issue . |
| 5 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 6 | Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ . |
| 7 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 8 | Theudebert was certainly thought of as a great and powerful king . |
| 9 | In addition , Chamberlain was not willing to join the Government without Birkenhead , and Birkenhead was strongly disapproved of by the Conservative rank and file , both in the House and in the country , and particularly by those somewhat prim and self-righteous parts of it in which lay Baldwin 's greatest strength . |