Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Flanders , an area in which French and English interests clashed over issues which were strategic , economic and legal , Edward I intervened in 1294 as king of England in defence of the count , Guy , then in dispute with Philip IV of France . |
| 2 | A few controversial mammalian fossils were known from the age of reptiles , and Lyell appealed to these as evidence that the whole sequence was unsound . |
| 3 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 4 | THE STORY was that Breakfast News ( BBC 1 ) , the third relaunch of the cereal television which began in 1983 as Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and Selina Scott chummy in jumpers , was going serious . |
| 5 | Left hand Pillar Crack , besides having a name redolent of times when tradition counted for more than imagination , is a superb little layback testpiece . |
| 6 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 7 | After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years . |
| 8 | Clifford retired in 1975 as branch administrative officer at Southampton Branch , and his hobbies in retirement have included the composition of poems and aphorisms . |