Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 2 | A Tractarian , whose work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attracted national attention , he became archdeacon of Dorset in 1862 but resigned , through ill health , nine months later . |
| 3 | A member of the Spooner family , connected to Wilberforce by his marriage to Barbara Spooner , became Archdeacon of Coventry with responsibility for Birmingham and had close links to the evangelical Calthorpes , landowners and philanthropists in the city . |
| 4 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 5 | The couple , who live locally , acquired and restored the 20-seater coach as a family keepsake , it was actually 's father who founded the Guy Motor Company which eventually became part of Leyland . |
| 6 | The dowry was never paid and Orkney became part of Scotland . |
| 7 | The aircraft was presented to the Museum on extended loan and became part of NAM 's ‘ Meteor comer ’ along with RB.108 test-bed FR.9 VZ608 , T.7 VZ634 , NF.12 WS692 and NF.14 WS739 . |
| 8 | Introduced in 1904 , this mark denotes purity and quality , which is why it later became part of Lurpak 's name . |
| 9 | It was swallowed up by London Transport , who owned the site , and became part of South Kensington underground station . |
| 10 | The crews became part of history . |
| 11 | She joined The I-Threes in ‘ 73 , who became part of Bob 's show when Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh quit in rows over touring and star billing in 1974 . |
| 12 | The stock immediately before the change included that relating to W 's practice , which never became part of B's stock , and following the dissolution B was engaged in only one part of the original practice . |
| 13 | ‘ Brittany became part of France , ’ Ralemberg continued . |
| 14 | In October 1981 , Hall Automation became part of GEC Electrical Projects at Rugby . |
| 15 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |
| 16 | The statio was closed to BR trains when it became part of Tyne & Wear Metro system . |
| 17 | Warren began work at Sellafield on the day the UKAEA was formed in 1954 — originally in the R & D branch which later became part of BNFL . |
| 18 | We became part of GEC-Marconi Electronics and as managing director I reported to Sir Robert Telford and continued to run Hall Automation . |
| 19 | Templetons became part of Stoddards in 1981 . |
| 20 | At the beginning of hostilities against Germany on 4 August 1914 , Wolverton companies F & G ( later under the four company system they became part of C & D companies ) were mobilised and the Battalion was formed complete at Aylesbury , before midnight . |
| 21 | For example Candy , who started off as a fairly minor part in the book , became part of George and Lennie 's dream and they became a ‘ threesome ’ . |
| 22 | Nagorny Karabakh , which has a predominantly Armenian population , became part of Azerbaijan in 1923 after the consolidation of Soviet power in the Transcaucasus region . |
| 23 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 24 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 25 | When no trace of hair remained visible , he applied strips of newspaper and a warmed towel to complete the process . |
| 26 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 27 | In 1926 Malcolm became chairman of Chatham House , where a room was named after him , and he relinquished this task only in 1935 . |
| 28 | During 1893 Captain Sykes became Chairman of Governors , and found himself almost immediately contributing to the " substantial repairs " needed to the buildings . |
| 29 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 30 | He became chairman of London and Home Counties region and a Council member in 1986 . |