Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 3 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 4 | Although their sheer abundance depressed the value of cowries as units of currency , it provided a wealth of shells for decorative purposes as well as a medium for displaying the wealth and demonstrating the prestige of rulers . |
| 5 | It has also been suggested that they and other less-fortunately-placed inhabitants provided a reservoir of day-labourers for nearby landowners to help on the land at harvest time or on other labour intensive occasions . |
| 6 | CBS ran advertisements in the Daily Star which listed a selection of shops in which some new CBS records could be bought at very low prices . |
| 7 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 8 | Instead , he promised a halving of imports of rolled steel products , chemicals , pipes and paper , which the Soviet Union could produce itself . |
| 9 | He changed a lot of things on the skis and sledges . |
| 10 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 11 | He pronounced a string of words in an unfamiliar tongue and , as he did so , the light changed abruptly and became dark and malevolent , tinged with purple . |
| 12 | ‘ Come on in , ’ he said , and he drew a bunch of keys across the desk and sorted out the smallest . |
| 13 | The taxing master disallowed a number of items on the ground that they were ‘ not mortgagee 's costs , that is , such costs as mortgagees are entitled to against the property in mortgage . ’ |
| 14 | Others of his early works are more conventionally neo-classical in manner , but he also designed a number of churches in the Gothic style , some of which — notably that in Rode Hill , Somerset ( 1822–4 ) — are highly , indeed bizarrely , individual , while his Devizes Castle , Wiltshire ( c .1840 ) is in a neo-Norman idiom . |
| 15 | From the early 1820s onwards he also designed a number of churches in a conventional Gothic style , but in some of his later works , such as his alterations to Broughton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1838–41 ) and Flasby Hall , Yorkshire ( 1840 ) he experimented with the picturesque Italianate manner . |
| 16 | At one point the driver overtook a line of vehicles on the hard shoulder while travelling at around a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |
| 17 | In an 80-page report leaked to the press on both sides of the Atlantic , the PLO described a number of meetings between Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , the Iranian minister of the interior , Ahmed Jibril of the PFLP — GC and other officials in the late summer of 1988 to plan a revenge attack on an American airliner . |
| 18 | Freud and his followers — and his former followers — described a number of mechanisms by which people protect or distort themselves , mechanisms such as repression , sublimation , projection , and so on . |
| 19 | Bernard ingeniously proposed a range of dresses in ‘ double cotton ’ , or a double layer of fabric . |
| 20 | Japan on June 27-30 proposed a package of rules on origin , including non-discriminatory treatment , predictability , and transparency of procedure , while the EC suggested that such matters should be dealt with in the Customs Co-operation Council ( CCC ) . |
| 21 | To wind up the proceedings Commandant Vonla McBride , a member of the RNLI 's Committee of Management , proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness The Duke of Kent for attending the meeting and for presenting the awards . |
| 22 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 23 | In a wide-ranging television interview on Nov. 9 President François Mitterrand proposed a number of changes to the Constitution , including a reduction in the president 's term from seven " at least " to six years , a reduction of presidential powers and a corresponding increase in the powers of the Prime Minister and the National Assembly , a strengthening of the independence of the judiciary ( including ending ministerial immunity from prosecution in ordinary courts ) , and greater scope for the use of referendums . |
| 24 | I found a directory of poets in a famous West Side bookstore , the Gotham Book Mart , and idly turned the pages of American names . |
| 25 | Well a lot , I found a lot of blokes in the infantry they were so scared of some of the officers and I |
| 26 | Mature N. lapillus are thought not to grow ( Moore , 1936 ) but Moore ( 1938a ) found a preponderance of females amongst the largest dog whelks ; he thought this is due either to differential growth rates in the two sexes or to differential onset of maturity.Feare ( 1970c ) also considered that most of the oldest individuals were female . |
| 27 | In 1963 , Roy Kerr , a New Zealander , found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes . |
| 28 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 29 | We were having a massive a er conversation the other night about smoking , he was going oh well you know , you smoking are you , I went why , he goes oh we found , found a box of matches in your er top I went oh no no no , it 's just for , for the joss sticks , yeah . |
| 30 | A little embarrassed at trespassing on this very private moment between them , she found a pack of tissues in Dr Russell 's medical bag and handed them to him so that Faye could wipe the gel from her abdomen before adjusting her clothing again . |