Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 2 | The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . " |
| 3 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 4 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
| 5 | In 1985 , its Labour majority was bigger than that of the Tories and the people of Derbyshire re-elected it in 1989 : they are satisfied with Derbyshire county council 's policies , and when we have the general election they will kick out the Under-Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , the man with the Pampers on . |
| 6 | The month of May holds lots in store for eager festival-goers , as Oxfordshire , Dorset and South Wales all host their own art extravaganzas . |
| 7 | The month of May holds lots in store for eager festival-goers , as Oxfordshire , Dorset and South Wales all host their own art extravaganzas . |
| 8 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 9 | For his pains the House of Commons put him in gaol . |
| 10 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 11 | Jackie Out of Soho reviews it in short exclamation-marked bursts |
| 12 | Having always taken great pains over her appearance , the thought of Brian seeing her in such hideous circumstances appalled her . |
| 13 | More controversially , Henderson linked subsequent failure with the inability of Britain to involve itself in ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 14 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 15 | The mention of Frankenstein stopped me in mid-thought . |
| 16 | There is nearly unanimous agreement among historians about the significance of the ‘ impossible situation ’ in which the Plantagenet king-dukes of Aquitaine found themselves in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries . |
| 17 | And Sarah Morgan likes the idea of Angela marrying someone in the government . ’ |
| 18 | This was the situation in which James Oswald of Dunnikier found himself in 1751 , when a chain of patronage was drawn back to him . |
| 19 | Experience of the corruption and nepotism of Rome confirmed him in his Anglican allegiance . |