Example sentences of "be [num ord] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonwealth representatives were first told of British thinking on the subject of civil aviation at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee in February 1943 . |
| 2 | I 'm seeking two British agents who were last heard of months ago . ’ |
| 3 | It is first heard of about the year 1000 , and a charter of 1005 speaks of the ‘ haga ’ or enclosure which existed here . |
| 4 | , Robert ( fl. 1556–1574 ) , surveyor and map-maker , is first heard of as a cartographer who mapped the English pale at Calais in 1556 , on the instructions of the royal auditor , John Chaloner . |
| 5 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
| 6 | It is first heard of at the coronation of Pope Nicholas II in 1059 , when it appears that because the mitre had passed into general use by bishops ( and even by princes ) the pope 's own headgear had to undergo change to become distinctive and exclusive to the pope . |
| 7 | A discussion of different sales setting follows later in the chapter , but consideration is first made of segmentation , which has a direct bearing upon the choice of channel . |
| 8 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 9 | Nothing is realised unless it is first dreamt of , and believed in . |
| 10 | Koops himself , optimistic to the last , is last heard of in 1805 soliciting subscriptions for his river maps ; his widow died in 1815 . |
| 11 | T5 was first heard of here last year as the 500MHz , R10000 successor to the R4000 and R5000 RISCs ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 12 | This was first thought of not by Fleischmann and Pons nor by Palmer and Jones , but had been anticipated in Europe , India and the Soviet Union up to 50 years earlier . |
| 13 | ‘ Distance Looks Our Way ’ was first thought of in 1988 , when Wellington artist Tony Lane was visiting Spain . |
| 14 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 15 | Fumio Abe had been forced to resign on Dec. 12 , 1991 , when he was first accused of taking the bribes [ see p. 38678 ] ; he had been arrested in January 1992 [ see pp. 38720-21 ] . |
| 16 | Mr Nichol was first accused of the attempted murder of Mrs Chandler in October 1990 . |
| 17 | Later , the bowl was sold by the Silberysen family , and was next heard of when it was acquired by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 18 | Unmarried , his heir is his second cousin , once removed , Mr. Alfred Blacker who is believed to live in Hobart , Tasmania , where he was last heard of working as a Real Tennis professional . ’ ’ |
| 19 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 20 | A BBC researcher informed us that he was last heard of as the proprietor of an organic health food store in San Juan . |
| 21 | ULLAPOOL MUSEUM seeks information and photographs on the fate of , or whereabouts of , Unteroffizier Heinz Josaf who baled-out of a Ju88 in December 1944 over Loch Ullapool , and was last heard of as a PoW . |
| 22 | When a man 's vote is wanted , he is in China ; when enquiries are made as to an overdue subscription , it is found that the member was last heard of in a shipwreck off New Guinea . |