Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [noun prp] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most interesting early structures in Istanbul is not a church but the famous cistern , thought to have been designed by Anthemius of Tralles , one of the architects of S. Sophia . |
| 2 | A late nineteenth-century Hepplewhite revival led to an 1897 reprint of the Guide by Batsford , and a modest myth grew up around George Hepplewhite , who was stated to have been apprenticed to Gillows of Lancaster and London ; in 1801 , however , they wrote ‘ We have not Hebbelthwaite 's Publication . ’ |
| 3 | Maria Luigia also extended the Palatine Library , which had been founded by Philip of Bourbon , Duke of Parma , and contained a complete collection of the works printed by the press of Giambattista Bodoni together with the original type faces . |
| 4 | This difficulty was never entirely overcome in the Middle Ages ; but the camel had already been swallowed by Gregory of Tours 400 years before our period opens , when after describing King Clovis 's engaging knaveries , he added the astounding comment : ‘ God … increased his kingdom , because he walked before Him in uprightness of heart , doing that which was pleasing in His sight . ’ |
| 5 | For Edmund 's mother was Henry 's cousin Philippa , the daughter of Lionel , duke of Clarence who had been born before John of Gaunt . |
| 6 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 7 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 8 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 9 | Geoffrey le Bel would have been flattered by John of Marmoutier 's comparison of his judicial aims with those of ancient Rome . |