Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when at last in February 1662 the real festival opera , Ercole amante , one of his finest scores , was produced to inaugurate the new theatre in the Tuileries , he had — despite his deliberate attempt to satisfy French taste with pomp and dancing rhythms — again to accept the insertion of ballet music by Lully , the success of which completely distracted attention from his unusually fine recitatives . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Taiwan opened trade offices with consular facilities in Peru and Bolivia , both of which officially recognised China . |
| 3 | Another actress well-favoured both by me and Andrew Allan for her talent was Mary MacLeod , but she too , obeyed the call to Hollywood and was later seen in several films one of which also starred Judith Evelyn . |
| 4 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 5 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 6 | Steps in the south-east corner of the Central Court led down into a well which was used , at least in the temple 's final days , for offerings : there were many small clay vases , one of which still had olives in it when excavated . |
| 7 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 8 | From Cambridge he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Anderson 's College , Glasgow ( the nucleus of what later became Strathclyde University ) , and held that post from 1872 to 1880 . |
| 9 | Fourth , we 've heard from Mr Williamson his interpretation of what strictly controlled means . |
| 10 | What happened in the relay at the European Championships bears an important relationship to some of the friction , argument and unpleasantness that occurred , mostly between Frank Dick and me , over the following two years , so it is important to record an unbiased , respected outsider 's view of what actually took place . |
| 11 | Everything happened so quickly that I have no very clear recollection of what actually took place . |