Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | The Bantu Mirror , established in 1936 , circulated in both Rhodesias , using African languages , but employed no African reporters : it merely used translations of news from Argus papers . |
| 3 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 4 | Some names have already been mentioned but it is possible to think of so many : of Mr Tommy and Mr Bobbie Reynolds and their work in choir and Sunday School , of the dignified and gracious figures of Mr and Mrs T H Watson ( parents of the Reverend George Watson ) , of Mr W A Mullen DL and his son Mr Cecil Mullen , generous and energetic benefactors of the church in so many ways , of Mr R J Magowan OBE JP for over 40 years secretary of the Trustees , of the brothers Mr Herbie and Mr David McClatchey , their service as Trustees and members of the choir , of Mr David Lyttle , Mr Norman Lyttle and Mr Sammy Lyttle , active in all aspects of the church 's life but especially concerned with choir and Sunday Schools of Mr Willie Holmes and his daughters Winnie and Amy , of Mr David Lamb and his family , of Mr Twinem Jackson , who , with Mr Magowan , still had time to give years of public service to the community at large in Portadown , of Mr C J McKinley , concerned with the Building Fund over the years and Superintendent of the morning Sunday School from 1943 to the 1960s , of Mrs Sleator with her wholehearted love for the church and for people , of Mr Bertie Montgomery , always cheerful and serene , who , among so many other things , began the practice of taping the services for the benefit of the elderly and housebound , of M Alfred Shortt and his long and generous association with the Sunday School , or Mr Dan Humphries , helping over the years with the church 's finances , of members of the Calvert and Hardy families and of those who , belonging to other Societies , nevertheless gave years of service to Edenderry — Mr Sam Robinson , Mr Joseph Cranston , Mr John Curry , Mr James Mullen , Mr W J Green , Mr Isaac Holland , Mr Eric Walker , and Mr William Bustard . |
| 5 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 6 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 7 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 8 | ‘ He always kept bottles of champagne in his fridge at work and he moved in very high-society circles . |
| 9 | HOUSING experts yesterday saw hopes of recovery in the depressed market after unseasonally strong activity . |
| 10 | Chea Sim , Hun Sen and Heng Samrin were the only members of the Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Council placed in power by the Vietnamese in 1979 who still held positions of power in Phnom Penh . |
| 11 | Later , he also became Minister of Defence of the republic ( renamed Russian Federation in January 1992 ) . |
| 12 | It also precipitated changes of plan regarding the book 's scope . |
| 13 | Weber also saw ownership of wealth as an important criterion for distinguishing classes . |
| 14 | The letter also specified details of non-observance of the Scottish Office guidelines . |
| 15 | The inspectors also said teaching of religion in non-church primary schools was generally poor , and ‘ usually lacked rigour , clear purpose and explicit religious content . ’ |
| 16 | As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources . |
| 17 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 18 | Jewelled with moisture , it now had pride of place in my fridge . |
| 19 | In 1982 the Honduran government effectively took control of COLPROSUMAH by giving official recognition to a small splinter group . |
| 20 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 21 | He frequently waved wads of money at passers-by , but like most footballers of his era , Gallacher was never a rich man . |
| 22 | The black marketeers also smuggled in cultural items , originating in the much-desired late twentieth century , for the rich collectors who invariably held positions of power on the planet . |
| 23 | By 1747 , however , the first Duke of Montrose was dead and his successor was much less actively involved in politics , while the Jacobite rising of 1745–6 effectively removed Stirling of Craigbarnet from the field . |
| 24 | The interest rate subsidy sometimes involved deferral of repayment for 15 years . |
| 25 | Richard 's enchantment with girls sometimes raised echoes of anxiety in his parents . |
| 26 | However , while I was in hospital , I had seen a boy I vaguely knew die of leukemia in the bed opposite me . |
| 27 | Check the files on those British right-wing organizations that flourished before the war , the ones that sometimes had Members of Parliament on their books . ’ |
| 28 | The converse point may help to explain the phenomenon of the two middle-class women who said they ‘ disliked ’ housework yet showed evidence of satisfaction with it . |
| 29 | Harper had told the court he twice briefly lit tufts of hay in order to see better in the darkened barn . |
| 30 | He explicitly confronted issues of racism in his 1960 commentary on the antisegregation struggles in Little Rock , Arkansas ( The Little Eagle Rock Incident ) and in his installation , Five Car Stud . |