Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 2 | Had this unflattering picture of Bella emerged because of Johnny , she wondered , or because of her own somewhat despicable jealousy ? |
| 3 | A small number of schools mentioned that as part of their monitoring procedures , pupils were asked to evaluate social education programmes and one secondary school referred to a survey of pupils ' attitudes to health education . |
| 4 | Bill Webster of Hilton said that at first it might be voluntary for guests to use their towels twice . |
| 5 | But the notion of secularism , the notion of anti-clericalism meant that within the liberal states erm the er er there would be a separation of church and state . |
| 6 | The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland said that among restrictive provisions to be addressed , carry-forward facilities should be provided and ACT on FIDs should not be paid at all , otherwise it was simply an interest-free loan to Government . |
| 7 | The Court of Session heard that in 1985 , Mr Gillespie had agreed to sell shares to the club 's owners of the time , John Lawrence ( Glasgow ) Ltd . |
| 8 | Mosley 's opposition to this national change of mood meant that for the small minority who still wished to maintain the peace of Europe at any price , he was momentarily seen as an alternative leader who would keep Britain out of a war . |
| 9 | John of Reading reported that in September 1359 , after hearing mass in St Stephen 's Chapel , the king said that he would much rather be buried where the Confessor , Henri III and Edward I lay than at Cologne . |
| 10 | The director-general of the South African Chamber of Business said that as a result of the speech , there would be a shift in overseas perceptions of South Africa , which was an essential first step towards a resumption of foreign investment . |
| 11 | Previous work funded by the ESRC at the Institute of Education showed that in the last five years screening techniques have been used increasingly to identify children for special educational provision . |
| 12 | Nor were defensive measures in conjunction with the United States entirely ruled out , but the British Chiefs of Staff believed that in the worst eventuality they could hold the Kra Isthmus ( to the north of Malaya ) against the Chinese . |
| 13 | After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up . |
| 14 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 15 | The casualties I think were something like fifty , fifty seven thousand dead and a very very large number of people wounded because of the particularly beastly kind of war with all kinds of weapons being used . |
| 16 | In Vine v. The National Dock Labour Board ( H. L. , 1957 ) Lord Somervell of Harrow said that in deciding whether there is such a power , two factors have to be considered : ( a ) the nature of the power ; ( b ) the character of the person . |
| 17 | In 1978 Lord Denning MR acceded to such a request when told that the Church of Scientology of California felt that in his court there was an unconscious influence operating adversely to the church . |
| 18 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 19 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
| 20 | Philippe Aries 's famous work Centuries of Childhood argued that in medieval society ‘ the idea of childhood does not exist ’ . |
| 21 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 22 | Necks were strained for a glimpse of the stranger and a buzz of excitement speculated as to his identity . |
| 23 | Millions of women died and with them a certain untamed aspect of the female spirit . |
| 24 | The Earl of Jersey noted that in Kent , towards the end of Anne 's reign , " Postboys , Examiners , etc. [ both Tory periodicals ] are the usual entertainments of the country gentry " . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal ruled that outside s.2(1) the question of dishonesty was for the jury applying " the current standards of ordinary decent people " . |
| 26 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 27 | In Landeur v Comins & Co ( a firm ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 7 August , the Court of Appeal observed that in cases of contumacious conduct , such as deliberate suppression of a document , striking out can be justified even if a fair trial of the action is still possible . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal held that as the effect of clause 8 was to negative a tortious liability which the owner would otherwise incur to the hirer , it was an exclusion of liability , and subject to a test of reasonableness under the UCTA 1977 . |
| 30 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |