Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [be] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 2 | The sheriff of Lincoln was sent to Stamford , but he met with considerable resistance , and Peck , quoting John Selden , suggests the king himself came to the town because of the students ' stubbornness . |
| 3 | During the minority of Roger-Bernard III 's grandson , Gaston II ( 1315–23 ) , custody of the comté of Foix was granted to Bernard Jourdain de L'Isle until the count reached the age of fourteen . |
| 4 | The terracotta model for the figure of Hercules was bequeathed to Hoare in Rysbrack 's will . |
| 5 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 6 | When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946 , Letson — as a soldier with wide connections in business and society — proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General . |
| 7 | At the same time ten battalions of Territorials were set to work building a new broad-gauge railway to Revigny . |
| 8 | He confirmed that in the event of Spain being preferred to England in the seedings , then Spain would play in Turin and Belgium in Calgiari . |
| 9 | At the town 's new cultural exhibition — the Sicilian Carousel — myths , legends history and people of the entire island of Sicily are brought to life through a unique blend of audio presentation and displays . |
| 10 | A number of F.Is were updated to FR.I standard and became the F.IA . |
| 11 | ‘ There was a tremendous resentment , ’ says he , to the idea of PowerGen being sold to Hanson . |
| 12 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 13 | The special love of Jesus was expressed to Elizabeth . |
| 14 | The earliest of these was at Kiev where , in 988 , Vladimir , Grand Duke of Kiev was converted to Christianity and from this time onwards he and his successors encouraged commerce and cultural exchange between the area and Constantinople . |
| 15 | Tolly soon remedied the problem and the bottles of Cantab were sent to Italy with pictures of the Suffolk Punch on every label.The beer 's name was also changed to conform to its traditional image , and will be known by the Italians as Tolly 's Strong Ale , an English ale . |
| 16 | The manor of Witton was leased to Jervaulx and one August night , so the story goes , the villagers lay in wait for the thief . |
| 17 | erm this passage , of course , about the savage clamour drowning both harp and voice , refers to the legend of Orpheus being torn to pieces by the Thrashian women , which Milton also uses in Lucidas . |
| 18 | Faced by rebellion , John made peace with the Pope in the spring of 1213 , but his campaigning against Philip of France was doomed to failure . |
| 19 | In July 1200 Conrad of Mainz was taken to task for not having sent report to Rome about plans for the tribunal to decide on an emperor . |
| 20 | THE town of Albert was reduced to rubble in the First World War and rebuilt in the 1920s . |
| 21 | On the north side , that 's all disrupted by the Castle , and as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the of Lewes was ceded to William de Warren , most of the local powers of the town council , such as it was , were taken away and subverted , and the town became a manorial borough . |
| 22 | An immediate difference is that reforms of TNC are directed to curriculum and assessment : there is very little about pedagogy or teaching method . |
| 23 | The parish church of Burnsall is dedicated to St Wilfrid , and the highlight of St Wilfrid 's Feast in this Dales village is a fell race . |
| 24 | Past persecutors were convicted of treason and hanged ; the scheming eighth Earl of Douglas was summoned to Stirling and , when he had refused to give up his association with his own particular clique of conspirators , was stabbed to death by James himself . |
| 25 | Although popular in Japan , the sight of Douglas being sent to prison was deemed too ‘ down ’ for Western audiences . |
| 26 | Almost total clearance occurred at about 3500 B.P. The Standing Stones of Callanish are thought to date from 3750 — 3500 B.P. |
| 27 | In 1988 what remained of Unimation was sold to Staubli , a Swiss company , which also makes the Puma range of robots . |
| 28 | And shortly , in her armies ' unremitting retreat , the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege . |