Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 2 | And I voted , I think , if I had a vote that day , I certainly voted in favour of that , and so did members of all groups . |
| 3 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 4 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 5 | Thus in 1985 the wealthiest 1% of the population still owned 20% of all wealth and the wealthiest 10% owned 54% , leaving the other 90% of the population with less than half of all personal wealth . |
| 6 | The preacher there was Marcus Loane , who later became archbishop of all Australia , but was then only a young clergyman . |
| 7 | Mr Bakker also took $3.7m of that money for his own use . |
| 8 | Obviously , the Army has recognised the role of the big regiment , but the role of other regiments with a particularly strong and well-established tradition was recognised and the Army Board also took account of those sensitivities . |
| 9 | ( Well , from the train we often caught sight of such scenes … ) |
| 10 | Chapter One considers aspects of this paradoxical deregulatory/reregulation phenomenon : on the one hand , the transformation of formerly compartmentalized financial institutions into virtually open-ended financial conglomerates offering a range of financial services to an extent not known before ; on the other hand , the search for an appropriate regulatory solution to the now accentuated problem of both conflicts of duty and interest and the possible misuse of inside information within financial conglomerates . |
| 11 | It is note-worthy that of all Charles 's ministers the one who most forcibly asserted rights of this kind , Pedro Rodriquez Campomanes , was also the one least influenced by ‘ enlightened ’ ideas , which in Spain were very much a foreign , overwhelmingly French , import . |
| 12 | Like Irving Berlin , Fain became part of that group of early 20th-century American songwriters with a talent for producing simple melodies that remained popular decades after they were first heard . |
| 13 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 14 | The Commission again urged adoption of that language or language based on Article 16 of the additional Protocol 1984 to the Inter-American Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad . |
| 15 | I never told Dana of this encounter . |
| 16 | According to Kissinger , ‘ Nixon never forgot courtesies of this kind … ’ |
| 17 | The veneration of several murdered Anglo-Saxon royal saints , and especially of Edmund of East Anglia and Edward the Martyr , almost certainly had overtones of this kind , and probably so too did the rapid growth of St Olaf 's cult in Norway in the 1030s , occasioned partly by the unpopular rule of Swegen and Ælfgifu of Northampton , who owed their position to his death . |