Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 2 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 3 | Closing on the same day is the confrontation between the work of Carmelo Arden and Roger Desserprit made during the years of the association with the Madi group in the 1950s . |
| 4 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 5 | I hitchhiked round Europe , lived off the smell of an oily rag , as they say . ’ |
| 6 | One family lived off the produce of 50 goats whose milk was converted into a very pleasant soft cheese . |
| 7 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 8 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 9 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 10 | Philosophers argued about the existence of God . |
| 11 | Then argued about the wisdom of drinking before an overnight sail . |
| 12 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 13 | And although none of the critics called him a genius for playing in them , none argued about the extent of his talent either . |
| 14 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | Somehow Jack got through the rest of the day and arrived at the hospital tired and miserable . |
| 16 | She got through the rest of the morning as best she could . |
| 17 | The case arose through the servicing of small Iranian jets at Heathrow airport . |
| 18 | The boy , with the consent of his father , claims that the accident arose through the fault of the regional council in allowing children to use a room having a heavy door with a power unit attached which could close abruptly , and in failing to show any warning . |
| 19 | The framework for services in Northern Ireland arose through the integration of health and personal services in 1973 , reorganising these services into four joint boards . |
| 20 | Another dispute in 1335 , during the time of John Champneys , Vicar 1330–38 , arose between the parishioners of Halling and the churchwarden John Heryng , this dispute again being taken before the Bishop of Rochester by the then church-warden , John le Baker . |
| 21 | Analysis of variance showed the following : ( 1 ) the CCPR decreased between the ileum and distal colon ; ( 2 ) the CCPR decreased between 16 and 32 weeks ; ( 3 ) dimethylhydrazine and small bowel resection increased the CCPR and calcium decreased the CCPR independently of one another ; ( 4 ) the CCPR interacted with dimethylhydrazine x small bowel resection , calcium x dimethylhydrazine and interacted between the site of bowel and calcium , dimethylhydrazine , small bowel resection , and dimethylhydrazine x small bowel resection ( p=0.014 to p<0.001 ) . |
| 22 | The Cloud suggests that Mary gazed through the humanity of Christ and glimpsed his divinity , albeit in a veiled and incomplete form . |
| 23 | In a sudden blur of motion , he leapt away from Grant and sprinted for the cover of the trees . |
| 24 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 25 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 26 | As soon as Reunification came about , Schiller applied for the return of his family 's estates . |
| 27 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 28 | In 1959 he applied for the headship of another minor public school , which had the disadvantage of being in Northumberland . |
| 29 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 30 | In 1969 , I applied for the post of Senior Lecturer at the new University of Lancaster , in the north of England ( about 240 miles north west of London ) . |