Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [was/were] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project , now scheduled for the first two weekends of June , went into the May issue of Spokesworker and was given front page treatment in the main newsletter , which also came out in May . |
| 2 | A second son , Richard , disinherited by Sir Paul because of his involvement in escapades considered discreditable to the family , subsequently became sheriff of Northumberland and was knighted in 1686 . |
| 3 | Wirral Council achieved an 89.1pc poll tax collection by the end of March and was listed as 22nd out of 36 metropolitan authorities . |
| 4 | It was put on display last night in the northern Belgian town of Onkerzele and was rolled with 9,300 tobacco leaves and took 334 hours to make . |
| 5 | After an overnight stay at the Washington Court hotel ( at the government rate as the reservation had been made by the Pentagon ) , he obtained a Washington driver 's licence in the name of Leavy and was given a Social Security card ( no. 326 — 84 — 2972 ) in the same name . |
| 6 | This last-named was begun in 1090 in the style of S. Martín of Frómista but was completed later under Burgundian auspices . |
| 7 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 8 | It had been found in the Pope Street area of Bootle and was submitted to the lost property section at Bootle police station . |
| 9 | Thomas More went on to become Lord Chancellor of England and was executed for opposing the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn . |
| 10 | Since the Minister is so concerned about the gold belonging to the Baltic states , will he see justice done for the poorest country in Europe , Albania , whose gold is in the Bank of England and was stolen from that country four decades ago ? |
| 11 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 12 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 13 | This was the custom of Bologna and was employed in England by public notaries . |
| 14 | In a further interview with Ritchie , Stirling was authorized to recruit a force of six officers and sixty men from the remnants of Layforce and was promoted to captain . |
| 15 | A second area of made ground was present to the east of Langloan and was thought to be a backfilled clay borrow pit . |
| 16 | They also had to accept that attacks on the USSR by weapons launched from American bases other than in Britain might still bring down nuclear strikes on this country as long as it remained a member of Nato or was linked to the United States in some way or other . |
| 17 | Much of the territory above Tilberthwaite Gill lies within the Royalty of Muncaster and was owned then by Sir William Pennington of Muncaster Castle , Baronet . |
| 18 | Between 1910 and 1914 , 1930 and 1931 , and 1977 and 1979 ( the period of the " Lib-Lab Pact " ) , the party in office lacked a majority in the House of Commons but was maintained in office by a tacit agreement with one or more smaller parties . |
| 19 | It is brought home sharply when we look at the two lists of the inhabitants of the Nottinghamshire village of Clayworth that were made by the minister in 1676 and 1688 , for we find that no less than 61.8 per cent of those recorded in 1676 were not there twelve years later ; only one-third of those who had disappeared had died . |
| 20 | George spent his early childhood in his home town of Liverpool but was evacuated to North Wales after the outbreak of war . |
| 21 | Another tradition has it that the knockers are afraid of the sign of the cross , an idea which probably stems from the legend which says that knockers are the GHOSTS of the Jews who took part in the crucifixion of Jesus and were punished by being sent to work in the mines . |
| 22 | One legend , often called " The Deliverance of Mankind " or " The Destruction of Mankind " , was inscribed on the largest gilded wooden shrine surrounding the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun and was written on the walls of later New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings , those of Seti I and Ramesses II possessing the most complete texts . |
| 23 | W. Dunlop , farmer of Knockdon for the past twelve years , left Bridgend after a market and took a short cut across the sands of Lochindaal and was drowned . |
| 24 | In Edinburgh , she met with representatives of SEAD and was interviewed for a media article . |
| 25 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 26 | We know , too , that in the Devonian period , up to 410 million years ago , there were vast reefs off the west coast of Australia that were made by animals of a class that is now extinct , and were quite different from today 's corals . |
| 27 | Two years later he was suspected of complicity in Thomas Whetenhall 's A Discourse of the Abuses Now in Question in the Churches of Christ and was fined in the Star Chamber . |
| 28 | The case centred on the constitutional validity of a restrictive abortion law passed by the state of Pennsylvania and was seen as a fundamental test of the beleaguered 1973 legal precedent Roe v. Wade , the basis of legal abortion in the USA . |
| 29 | Wycliffe went in search of Sara and was received in the drawing-room . |
| 30 | On Jan. 1 Bhanu Pratap Singh resigned as Governor of Karnataka and was replaced by Khurshid Alam Khan , governor of Goa , who also remained in the latter post . |