Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he deliberately affected a republican stance , in 27 BC Octavian effectively became emperor of Rome , taking the name Augustus . |
| 2 | The couple , who live locally , acquired and restored the 20-seater coach as a family keepsake , it was actually 's father who founded the Guy Motor Company which eventually became part of Leyland . |
| 3 | Anselm , St ( 1033–1109 ) Born the son of a Lombard landowner , Anselm eventually became Archbishop of Canterbury in England . |
| 4 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | It could have been written by its bearer , given by Florence as Abbot Lyfing of Tavistock , who eventually became bishop of Worcester , for this would further explain how Florence had a copy . |
| 6 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 7 | His interest in hygiene and disinfection was evident in sales of ‘ ozone water ’ , in his patents dealing with the preparation and use of chlorine and of highly oxidized compounds of manganese , and in his authorship of five short books on the topic between 1860 and 1867 . |
| 8 | Although these results were obtained with highly purified fractions of TFIIIB ( 7 ) and TFIIIC ( 3 , 27 ) , they do not exclude the participation of other contaminating or comigrating proteins . |
| 9 | This effect has been most noticeable , for obvious reasons , in the most highly capitalized forms of production . |
| 10 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 11 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 12 | The Bantu Mirror , established in 1936 , circulated in both Rhodesias , using African languages , but employed no African reporters : it merely used translations of news from Argus papers . |
| 13 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 14 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 15 | Increasingly EP involves dynamic on-line documents rather than nicely formatted pieces of paper . |
| 16 | One minute he was just standing there — and the next instant he suddenly grabbed hold of Laura , quickly scooping her tall , slender body up into his arms before carrying the struggling figure of the girl towards his large limousine . |
| 17 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 18 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 19 | But it only reminded Shelley of Miguelito , and she turned away , her anger rising again . |
| 20 | Susie idly jotted names of friends in her rough book when she was lost . |
| 21 | Sheila especially had dreams of university . |
| 22 | Jean alone had evidence of Dr Crane 's last meeting with Eliza . |
| 23 | Another paper describing the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation is Narin 1987 , but this restricts itself to publication counts and citations , deriving a new indicator , the Top Decile Performance , which is that percent of an Institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 24 | It is defined as the percent of an institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 25 | The courtyard design of Linlithgow was completed under his inspiration ; it was this architectural gem of a palace which so impressed Mary of Guise , whose admiration was by no means merely wifely tact . |
| 26 | ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said . |
| 27 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 28 | The Train brothers were running 4th in C2 but 200m from the end they turned on the power and comfortably passed Cain/Chubaty of Canada . |
| 29 | As Programme Director for the new radio station , I enlisted the services of our original staff ( Sid Boyling , Louis Bourgeois and Bob McLean ) as announcers , and we shortly made use of Louis H. Lewry , later to be known as ‘ Scoop ’ Lewry , and ‘ Hendy ’ Henderson . |
| 30 | After lengthy backbench Opposition speeches had stretched out discussions , a government whip just after 11pm moved closure of debate , which Mr Bob Cryer ( Lab . |