Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland . |
| 2 | Mr Robinson 's counsel , Kieran May , had told the judge that the MoD admitted liability for the purposes of the action , but was disputing how much should be awarded . |
| 3 | Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure . |
| 4 | He became Clerk to the Governors after Ellis 's death in 1957 , a Governor in 1962 when Gilchrist was appointed Bursar and Clerk , Vice Chairman in 1973 , and Chairman on the retirement of Lt. Col. Christie-Miller in 1975 . |
| 5 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 6 | Unlike its contemporary , Queen 's College , Bedford later became part of the University of London , and among its first outstanding students were Barbara Bodichon and George Eliot [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Terms were agreed at Cirencester by which , it would seem , the western Saxons lost control of Cirencester and the lands along the Severn which became part of the territory of the Hwicce , so that the kingdom of the Hwicce has come to be regarded as a Mercian creation of the time of Penda . |
| 8 | The term welfare pluralism became part of the vocabulary of social policy after its use in 1978 by the Wolfenden Report on The Future of Voluntary Organisations . |
| 9 | During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a school of Dalmatian humanists , still writing mainly in Latin or Italian prose and poetry , broke away from the narrow ecclesiastical concerns of men like Thomas and became part of the mainstream of the European Renaissance . |
| 10 | Liverpool Competition captain Phil Davies ( 39 ) could not have been more impressed when he became part of the statistics in Rennie 's 7–52 haul as Neston made 151 from 55 overs . |
| 11 | Such renovation was not possible until some years later when the property was transferred to the Ministry of Works — which later became part of the Department of the Environment — and a decision was reached to restore the Villa to its original proportions , i.e , without the wings which had been added by Wyatt . |
| 12 | BARNEY and Ben became part of the family on our second day in the sleepy little fishing hamlet called Es Calo . |
| 13 | This approach became part of the negotiations with the teachers ' unions , who did not in principle object to appraisal , but wanted to ensure that they obtained good conditions of service and an adequate pay increase before agreeing to it . |
| 14 | Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world . |
| 15 | They later became part of the collection of the National Film Library . |
| 16 | I was involved in opposing the Vietnam War , began to write for a left newspaper , Black Dwarf and became part of the beginnings of the women 's liberation movement . |
| 17 | Education became part of an act of political will . |
| 18 | Chapman laid part of the blame for not winning promotion on the loss of two vital points at Clapton Orient in March , at a crucial stage in the race . |
| 19 | When I became Chairman on the retiral of Lord Macfarlane in June 1992 , I welcomed the prospect of such a challenging and rewarding task . |
| 20 | When Ian MacGregor became chairman of the NCB in September 1983 , there was also a stock-pile of 56 million tonnes of coal — a large and solid testimony to years of over-production . |
| 21 | Sir Denis Rooke , Chairman of the British Gas Corporation , became Chairman of the Council at the end of 1977 , with its student numbers still rising by anything from 6 to 13 per cent a year . |
| 22 | Do Muoi , hitherto a Vice-Chairman , became Chairman of the Council of Ministers on June 22 , 1988 , following the death on March 10 of Pham Hung . |
| 23 | Towards the end of this period he also became chairman of the Port of London Authority . |
| 24 | James Maxton , Member for Bridgeton , became chairman of the ILP in 1926 and was its leading figure until his death twenty years later . |
| 25 | In 1918 his stock was confiscated , but he became chairman of the cooperative to which it was assigned . |
| 26 | 1973 when he became chairman of the corporation for a period of three years . |
| 27 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 28 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 29 | The track gradually dropped to the rippling waters of the Hongu Khola , where we made camp on the banks of the river amidst azaleas and fragrang scrub juniper between the enclosing mountains . |
| 30 | We made camp in a grove of cottonwood trees , about the only available protection from the sun . |