Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 2 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 3 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 4 | The Federal Republic of West Germany was formally recognised , in 1952 , as a complete sovereign state , by Britain , France and the United States of America , so those powers ended their respective ‘ occupation ’ and West Germany became a member of the European Economic Community also . |
| 5 | Tudjman boycotted a meeting of the Presidency on July 30 which Mesic also left in anger in objection to the proposed appointment of Branko Kostic Montenegro 's representative in the Collective State Presidency , as head of a commission to supervise a ceasefire in Croatia . |
| 6 | The European Communities ( EC ) suspended a trade and co-operation agreement which had only been initialled on June 8 , and withdrew an invitation to Romania to attend a meeting of the G-24 nations in Paris in July . |
| 7 | Lord Ashfield became a Member of the Commission and Lord Latham took his place as Chairman of the new |
| 8 | Ask yourself about the current African political scene and read round it to find interesting parallels , since Mageeba represents a mixture of the kind of African leadership to be found . |
| 9 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
| 10 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 11 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 12 | The femininity of women threatens to pollute Lele masculinity : in common with our own and many other cultures , the Lele display a form of the Delilah-complex , although in their case the common association between women ( as wayward creatures of nature ) and the wild is virtually stood on its head . |
| 13 | I he fact that Ferri became a member of the Fascist movement in Italy is of concern to those who regard civil liberties as a fundamental aspect of criminal law . |
| 14 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |
| 15 | So saying he backed out into the corridor again , where Shiona caught a glimpse of the frowning faces of a couple of uniformed railway officials . |
| 16 | Somewhere here , Kington found a village of the ancient China , with story-tellers reciting to an audience of old men , with chess players in the street , among the chickens and the black piglets and the heavy feeling of lost centuries . |
| 17 | Corbett caught a whiff of the fragrant incense . |
| 18 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 19 | Kadhafi told a session of the GPC on Oct. 7 that security forces had clashed with what he called " an extremist Islamic group " near the town of Ajdabiya , about 725 km south-east of Tripoli , some of whom had been killed and others captured . |
| 20 | On July 23 Kuwait told a meeting of the UN Compensation Commission meeting in Geneva that the country 's war losses were between $50,000 million and $100,000 million . |
| 21 | The French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told a meeting of the WEU on June 5 that the RRF would create " many problems " , and he criticized NATO 's failure to " define political objectives " before " deciding on force structures " . |
| 22 | Then , in 1988 , Virgin 's buccaneering founder Richard Branson mounted a buyout of the group 's shares from the stock market . |
| 23 | Some recent estimates of the cost nationally in the United States give an idea of the probable scale : curbing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels could absorb between 1 and 2 per cent of GNP , with the sums rising into the trillions in the next century . |
| 24 | Hilton stimulates a conception of the contemplative vocation as essentially dynamic — an interaction between the creative powers of God and man . |
| 25 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 26 | Ramsey developed a hatred of the chief proponent of interference in Russia , Winston Churchill . |
| 27 | In the eighth of our special 10-month series in which we build , furnish and decorate a house from scratch , Lynn Barnett takes a tour of the self-contained flat |
| 28 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 29 | The government reviewed its relations with Taiwan , but decided to maintain its current policy of recognizing only the People 's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China , acknowledging China 's claim that Taiwan constituted a province of the mainland . |
| 30 | Roberts called a meeting of the Town Council and he and Cross asked the police to start an investigation . |