Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debt is seen as Pilkington 's main difficulty with estimates of £840m at the end of March now said to be standing at £950m and likely to hit the £1bn figure . |
| 2 | St Teresa of Avila also spoke of the obscure type of revelation , which both Julian and Muhammad described as ‘ spiritual visions ’ : |
| 3 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 4 | He succumbed finally to the two-pronged attack of the papacy and the anti-imperialists , but a number of districts of Ancona never came under Innocent . |
| 5 | The migration from Pannonia , for instance , could have a symbolic significance , in that St Martin of Tours also came from there . |
| 6 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 7 | And yet , as she floated in a dream-like state , she felt no alarm when she slowly became aware that she was not alone , almost telepathically sensing his presence , even before the dark , sleek head of Ross quietly surfaced in the water beside her , barely disturbing the total peace and silence of their surroundings . |
| 8 | The expansion of business and industry in all the main ports and towns of Scotland also brought with it an influx of work-hungry ‘ inlanders ’ , as well as islanders , adding even more to the tensions . |
| 9 | Very small farms in the east of England also suffered from low income during the same period . |
| 10 | The Anglo-Catholic movement in the Church of England certainly sprang from the activities of Newman and his friends . |
| 11 | It is impossible to say precisely how much of England still lay in open field in 1700 or thereabouts , but one can make a rough estimate . |
| 12 | The first neolithic settlers on the site of Knossos probably lived in wooden huts , of which only the post-holes survive in the archaeological record . |
| 13 | The disintegration of the USSR caused so many new problems in the food and financial spheres that the economy of Russia soon teetered on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 14 | President Carlos Saúl Menem of Argentina also attended as a guest . |
| 15 | Repeated many times over , the words of Luhnenschloss finally came to the notice of the RSPCA last year and were used as part of further discussions it was on the point of entering into with the Jockey Club in the hope of further reform . |
| 16 | Criticism of Israel also grew in the US Congress . |
| 17 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 18 | The wind of God certainly blew on that man , Christian though he already was ; he has not become a paragon of virtue over night , but the manifest change in his disposition and attitudes can not be denied . |
| 19 | The decision in the case was seen as having considerable worldwide significance and the Tobacco Institute of Australia immediately appealed against all the major findings of the judgment . |
| 20 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 21 | Careful collaboration between the Shamir-Arens camp and supporters of Sharon also resulted in the defeat of almost all of Levi 's supporters . |
| 22 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 23 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 24 | The deputy Foreign Minister of Iran recently went to Paris to negotiate the transfer of enriched uranium from France . |
| 25 | No doubt , too , the tattered flag of Iran still fluttered from its mast . |
| 26 | As well as the doubling of chlorophyll in the central North Pacific gyre between 1965 and 1985 ( ref. 4 ) mentioned by Falkowski and Wilson , zooplankton biomass in the Gulf of Alaska also doubled between the 1950s and 1980s ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 27 | In 1952 Durham University had two campuses , one in the ancient cathedral city of Durham nearly encircled by the River Wear and the other twelve miles away in the industrial city of Newcastle on the River Tyne . |
| 28 | This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's . |
| 29 | Our client had it in telephone conversation with the bank on ninth of September only proceeded with the proposed purchase on the express understanding that Frinton property was not to be included particularly as his father 's companion a Mrs eighty years of age , was residing in the property and owned a half share of it . |
| 30 | The name of Macedonia then went on a wander . |