Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott and his final team of 3 perished on the return . |
| 2 | Released after Simon 's great victory at Lewes ( 14 May ) , Peter was one of the council of nine imposed on the king ( June 1264 ) and thenceforth played a major part in the direction of central government . |
| 3 | He was then one of the twelve chosen by the barons to reform the realm , and one of the council of fifteen imposed on the king by the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 4 | He was opposed on this point by the German naturalist Moritz Wagner , whose book The Darwinian Theory and the Law of the Migration of Organisms of 1868 insisted on the need for a period of geographical isolation . |
| 5 | Section 26 of the Act of 1988 imposed on the governors an obligation to admit a number of applicants being not less than the relevant standard number . |
| 6 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |