Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowhere in one leading textbook is it treated of as a defence . |
| 2 | It is first heard of about the year 1000 , and a charter of 1005 speaks of the ‘ haga ’ or enclosure which existed here . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | , 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 . |
| 5 | A BBC researcher informed us that he was last heard of as the proprietor of an organic health food store in San Juan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway . |
| 9 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 10 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 11 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And we bought a Then a , do n't seem to have heard of in a kitchen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 16 | Food in the supermarkets , for example — we 're now quite used to all sorts of delicacies that most British people had never heard of in the '70s . |
| 17 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 18 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 19 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 20 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 21 | Again , homosexuality is thought of as a narcissistic repudiation of sexual difference . |
| 22 | ONE IS always a bit bashful about asking for blood tests on onself — no one likes to be thought of as a hypochondriac . |
| 23 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 24 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 25 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 26 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe I got fed up being thought of as a saint , ’ Tammuz said darkly . |
| 28 | Read the old sagas and there you will see it is thought of as a great living force . |
| 29 | Thus evolution can be thought of as a process of hill-climbing . |
| 30 | In this typical example , the allosteric enzyme can be thought of as a switch . |