Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and seven Warsaw Pact countries took part in an entirely new set of negotiations during 1989 , the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) talks in Vienna , Austria , aimed at reducing the conventional force levels deployed by each side in Europe ( for decision to inaugurate CFE-first referred to as Conventional Stability Talks-see p. 36413 ) . |
| 2 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 3 | It is first heard of at the coronation of Pope Nicholas II in 1059 , when it appears that because the mitre had passed into general use by bishops ( and even by princes ) the pope 's own headgear had to undergo change to become distinctive and exclusive to the pope . |
| 4 | It is first heard of about the year 1000 , and a charter of 1005 speaks of the ‘ haga ’ or enclosure which existed here . |
| 5 | , Robert ( fl. 1556–1574 ) , surveyor and map-maker , is first heard of as a cartographer who mapped the English pale at Calais in 1556 , on the instructions of the royal auditor , John Chaloner . |
| 6 | First heard of in the Domesday Book , listed as Torne , eventually a Baron Gumald settled in the area , adding his title to the original , and thus emerged its present name . |
| 7 | There is little sign of experimentation in these spheres : Lysander 's radical solution of an elective kingship got nowhere ( p. 156 ) and the system of harmosts , young Spartan ‘ proconsuls ’ first heard of in 423 ( Thuc. iv . |
| 8 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
| 9 | The two companies say they are confident they can comply with the licences , which they first applied for in March 1991 . |
| 10 | A fear that ‘ techne … will soon be silenced by the high technology ’ ( Amalgamemnon : 5 ) lurks behind the futuristic tales of these novels which echo the suspicions first hinted at in Out of the intentions of those who implement technological innovation . |
| 11 | More serious criminal cases are first enquired into by magistrates ' courts to see if there is sufficient evidence for the case to go further . |
| 12 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 13 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 14 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 15 | EVER SINCE mankind first began to till the soil , weeds have been practising their unique brand of herbal terrorism . |
| 16 | He was first spoken to by the police in November before being charged with attempted murder on February 28 . |
| 17 | The British Army , Navy , and Air Force Ski Challenge Cup was first competed for in 1914 in Villars , Switzerland . |
| 18 | Obviously if you have family living near enough , they would be the first to turn to for help of this kind . |
| 19 | ‘ Distance Looks Our Way ’ was first thought of in 1988 , when Wellington artist Tony Lane was visiting Spain . |
| 20 | Was Consumers ' Co-operation , first conceived of as a means to realise co-operative aspirations of a much more comprehensive kind , to establish the same relations with its employees as would any other employer ? |
| 21 | The first paid for by generous British industry cost £178 just for me . |
| 22 | On 6 December Sawt al-Kuwait drew attention to the continuing eclipse of the Iran-Iraq war hero Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid ; last heard of under house arrest in 1988 , his fate was unknown in 1990 . |
| 23 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 24 | A BBC researcher informed us that he was last heard of as the proprietor of an organic health food store in San Juan . |
| 25 | ULLAPOOL MUSEUM seeks information and photographs on the fate of , or whereabouts of , Unteroffizier Heinz Josaf who baled-out of a Ju88 in December 1944 over Loch Ullapool , and was last heard of as a PoW . |
| 26 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 27 | When a man 's vote is wanted , he is in China ; when enquiries are made as to an overdue subscription , it is found that the member was last heard of in a shipwreck off New Guinea . |
| 28 | Koops himself , optimistic to the last , is last heard of in 1805 soliciting subscriptions for his river maps ; his widow died in 1815 . |
| 29 | I see whereabouts of Hilda , last heard of in nineteen sixty nine , used to keep used to keep erm newsagent 's shop in Ravenshead . |
| 30 | On Saturday , such a view was at last endorsed from within England 's recent ranks when his old comrade-in-arms , Paul Ackford , spoke of how , under the old laws , Dooley ‘ would step across and bump his man out of the way ’ . |