Example sentences of "of [noun] was [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here the contract of salvage was entered into in the Paracels and all the work of refloating and putting the vessel into a condition to be towed to Hong Kong and nearly all the tow , except for the last three miles , were completed beyond the territorial limits of Hong Kong and consequently I take the view that the profits must be said to arise outside of Hong Kong rather than inside . |
| 2 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 3 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |
| 4 | The global restructuring of capital was referred to by another participant . |
| 5 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 6 | Firstly , lack of care was associated with at least a threefold increase in the risk of depression , whether the women were working-class or middle-class , and whether the loss was by separation or by death . |
| 7 | The committee observed at paragraph 18 that the fact that misappropriation of property was dealt with under the three separate heads of larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion inevitably made for difficulty and complication . |
| 8 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 9 | The black population of London was estimated at between fourteen and twenty thousand in the eighteenth century , or 2.2 per cent of the total ( Alexander and Dewjee 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Although the Act of Supremacy was passed shortly after her accession in 1559 , papal condemnation of Elizabeth was postponed for over a decade . |
| 11 | The probability is , therefore , that a wide-ranging set of alliances was entered into in the period immediately preceding the final conflict between Cadwallon and Eadwine , involving not only Cadwallon and his allies , including Penda , but the Bernician royal exiles with likely Pictish and Scottish support , possibly even contingents of Irish troops . |