Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 2 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 3 | Near the end of his life Ramsey was asked which of his books he was most glad to have written . |
| 4 | Sir Charles Webb-Bowen was delivering himself of a homily . |
| 5 | Eva 's desire to communicate the gospel was given plenty of outlets . |
| 6 | But at that time , the early 1970s , most governments were having none of it ; migrants , hawkers and barefoot business meant mess and that was that . |
| 7 | Cheshire were left plenty of time to pursue a victory target of 174 , and even an 18-minute rain stoppage just prior to the start of the final hour failed to unduly affect them . |
| 8 | But Harold was having none of that . |
| 9 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 10 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 11 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 12 | It would be absurd if my wife were to accuse me of using the word ‘ here ’ without meaning , since I did not know where I was . |
| 13 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 14 | But the Croma was having none of it . |
| 15 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 16 | The magistrate was having none of this , however , believing that it would lower the dignity of the law , although the prosecuting counsel had a better idea and asked Mr Gamage if he was equally prepared to be shot in the face . |
| 17 | Guy and Brian were discussing something of limited interest to women : something to do with commerce and the City . |
| 18 | Mrs Hannaway wanted to take Boris home in her handbag , but airport staff were having none of it . |
| 19 | This was very self-conscious imitation , as is proved by the peculiarities of some epigrams which celebrate the family 's achievements : a surviving pair commemorates the Persian victories in the strange order Salamis-Marathon ; it was perhaps Kimon himself who thus sought to remain Athenians , in verse , of his father 's great battle , just as painters were to remind them of it by their Marathon in the Painted Stoa built in the middle of the fifth century : Oinoe , a deme close to Marathon , was the title of one of the subsidiary hoplite engagements depicted . |
| 20 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 21 | Here we have a maritime application of the same principle which , by land , determined Corinth 's attitude to Athens and Megara ; Corinth 's policy was to strengthen whichever of Athens or Aigina looked the weaker , so as to prevent the stronger from controlling the Saronic Gulf . |
| 22 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 23 | There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash . |
| 24 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 25 | But the locals were having none of it . |
| 26 | However , the jury were having none of it ; she had entered these institutions of her own volition , possibly when the police were getting a little too close to her activities in that part of the country . |
| 27 | I thought that elementary particles were less attractive because , although scientists were finding lots of new particles , there was no proper theory at that time . |
| 28 | It was often very hazardous and Mr Crangle , the librarian , wanted to buy a safety net for when someone climbed beyond shelf thirty but the Headmaster was having none of it . |
| 29 | Amaranth was ridding herself of ‘ Gordon Brown ’ . |
| 30 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |