Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 2 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 3 | The Council of Castile had refused public recognition of Joseph 's title to the Spanish crown on the grounds that such a claim was ultra vires without consulting the nation . |
| 4 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 5 | In practice , the Bank of England ceased using special deposits after 1980 . |
| 6 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 7 | However , by the end of 1978 only 12 companies in the whole of the North West and North East of England had received financial support , amounting to a total of little more than £3 million . |
| 8 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 9 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 10 | Following negotiations with Justice Minister Mauricio Correa Lima on Nov. 10 , Guajajara Indians on the Canabrava reserve in the north-eastern state of Maranhao agreed to release 400 peasant farmers whom they were holding as hostages in return for a government pledge to remove 2,400 settlers and to relocate their village , Sao Pedro de Cacetes , off the reserve . |
| 11 | Henry , the Marquess of Flaxton had known hard times . |
| 12 | It was across these very waters that the ex-wife of the son of King Frederick the Third of Denmark had ferried raw men and their beasts to Falster and back . |
| 13 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 14 | On this occasion the Bank of Ireland refused to accept this Independent Third Party decision and has now appealed the case to the Circuit Court . |
| 15 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 16 | His frantic re-reading of Dickens had revealed numerous mentions of grog . |
| 17 | They included a group of guerrillas , ultimately numbering 46 , who had occupied the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador since Aug. 20 and who at the beginning of October had sought political asylum in the Mexican embassy . |
| 18 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 19 | Bernard Ulrich and colleagues at the University of Gottingen had proposed that deposition of sulphur and nitrogen compounds ( originating from industrial activity and power generation ) led to the release of aluminium from minerals in the soil . |
| 20 | On Oct. 15 the Reserve Bank of Australia attempted to counter collapsing confidence by cutting official interest rates by one percentage point to 13 per cent . |
| 21 | The warmest reception from the audience went to Edward Williams , a hill farmer from Gwynedd whose personal radiation measurement in the aftermath of Chernobyl had registered ten times the normal level . |
| 22 | In his inaugural speech President Fujimori of Peru promised to respect human rights fully . |
| 23 | In subsequent days there was an increase in the troop presence on the streets in Yangon ( Rangoon ) , the capital , while on Aug. 14 it was reported from Thailand that anti-government forces in various parts of Myanma had resumed military activities , ending a three-month post-election lull . |
| 24 | The Church had ceased to be monolithic ; the social structure of Europe had become more fluid . |
| 25 | Every winter for years the popular illustrated paper of Europe had devoted great colour spreads to the Shah and his wife and four children on the ski slopes . |
| 26 | The slow spin of Venus had led many scientists to expect that the dipole moment would be small ( section 2.1.7 ) but perhaps not as small as this . |
| 27 | The kingdom of Kent had enjoyed political stability for some time . |
| 28 | In practice , a number of RACs had anticipated this request and had already begun work on the development of schemes that were consistent with the report 's recommendations . |
| 29 | Meanwhile she had many friends who took up her cause : memorial concerts were given in Prague and Vienna ; she received a gratuity from the Elector of Cologne ; and the King of Prussia offered to purchase several compositions for 100 ducats each ( including the Requiem which Constanze made sure was ‘ completed ’ by Süssmayr so that she could collect the last instalment of money due from Count Walsegg ) . |
| 30 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |