Example sentences of "unheard of [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 2 | After much furore , his results were published in Nature , along with , in a development unheard of at the time , a criticism of his data by one of the paper 's referees , the chemist Walter Stewart . |
| 3 | County butterfly recorder Steve Piotrowski said : ‘ Up to this year it has been virtually unheard of for the species to over-winter in Suffolk . ’ |
| 4 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 5 | A Chief Whip is in a special position to be able to understand the many strains in the lives of colleagues that are unheard of beyond the bounds of Westminster , and often unheard of except within very small circles in this place . |
| 6 | Job losses , which until recently were unheard of in the NHS , usually affect older people first , resulting in the loss of those with the most skill and experience . |
| 7 | When a medical career has to be ended early because of staffing reductions ( virtually unheard of in the NHS before the reforms but now planned in the wake of the Tomlinson inquiry ) age usually predominates over other factors such as experience and skill . |
| 8 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 9 | Technology has brought speed of travel , and the almost instantaneous dissemination of information from one part of the world to another , such as has been unheard of in the history of the world . |
| 10 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 11 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 12 | For the next week we were to play a game ( unheard of in the UK ) called Hunt the Politician . |
| 13 | Telling a child that he or she is bad when they have behaved wrongly is common in the West , but as Susan Sontag has observed , it is unheard of in the East , where the child would be told to be ashamed of itself . |