Example sentences of "of [noun prp] and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |
| 2 | It was designed by a pupil of Wren and completed in 1731 . |
| 3 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 4 | He had been specifically accused of exceeding his authority ( i ) on Oct. 28 , 1988 , when he ordered police to use water cannon and tear gas against anti-government protesters [ see p. 37093 ] ; and ( ii ) on Jan. 15 , 1989 , when he ordered that demonstrators who did not obey an appeal to disperse should be taken out of Prague and abandoned without personal documents 30-50 km from the city [ see also p. 36400 ] . |
| 5 | He hastily ordered large amounts of red ochre to be brought from Elephantine and to be ground to powder by the High Priest of Heliopolis and stirred into seven thousand jugs of beer . |
| 6 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 7 | It is situated in the small highland village of Carrbridge and surrounded by beautiful countryside of sweet-smelling pine trees , dark moorland and mountain peaks . |
| 8 | Five minutes walk from the main street of Taormina and situated beside public gardens , this hotel is ingeniously constructed into the side of the cliff . |
| 9 | The meeting took place at Cherbourg in August 1858 , coinciding with the opening of a vast new deep-water dock and the unveiling of a statue of Napoleon I , the Queen and Prince Albert having crossed in the Royal Yacht accompanied by the Prince of Wales and escorted by 140 private English yachts . |
| 10 | At the suggestion of the Prince of Wales and encouraged by leading environmentalist Jonathan Porritt , he contacted the Prince of Wales Business Leaders ' Forum , an international network now in its third year of aiming for global business success through good corporate citizenship and sustainable development . |