Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 2 | The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded on 17 April included Japanese possession of Formosa , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria , the opening by China of four more treaty ports and the payment to Japan of a sizeable indemnity . |
| 3 | The inhabitants of Antwerp surrendered on 10 October . |
| 4 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 5 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 6 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 7 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 8 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 9 | During the next 150 years most of Hungary lay under Turkish rule , but the Habsburgs held on to Slovenia and parts of Croatia and Slavonia , including the Zagreb region . |
| 10 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 11 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 12 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 13 | Clashes with the army escalated rapidly ; curfew orders were defied as stone throwers confronted army vehicles and pelted low flying helicopters with rocks ; parts of Gaza blackened by burning protest tyres , were out of control . |
| 14 | The invention of Ruritania led to many descendants , all declaring their ancestry in the ‘ a ’ suffix , from Buchan 's Evallonia and George Birmingham 's Lystra to countries invented for young readers like Frances Hodgson Burnett 's Samavia , Noel Streatfeild 's Livia , Serraillier 's Silvania , Adnan Alington 's Rumelia and Harnet Graham 's Zoraya . |
| 15 | A liberal spraying of Waxoyl diluted by white spirit is then easily taken into the metal where it continues to preserve from within . |
| 16 | THE Bank of England came under strong criticism yesterday from a cross-party committee of MPs over its role in the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International . |
| 17 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |
| 18 | The success of the Anglo-Catholics and the revival of the Church of England produced by both Evangelicals and High Churchmen did not fit into the plan prepared for the new century : it is no coincidence that both Anglo-Catholicism and the new Free Church Councils were mainly confined to England 's towns and cities . |
| 19 | January 1987 , unnamed spokesman of SMG quoted in Asian Times attacking Commissioner 's initiative on racial attacks , doubting motives and intentions . ’ |
| 20 | The hills were purple in the distance and the magic sky of Ireland smiled in sunny blue above them . |
| 21 | A deal to buy the whole of Adidas fell through last month . |
| 22 | He also gave lands to them , and had those of Beverley protected by royal writs . |
| 23 | William I was succeeded by one of his sons , William II , who was crowned King of England , whereas the Duchy of Normandy passed to another son , Robert , who had sometimes sided with King Philip I of France , and that presented many of the Norman Barons in England with divided loyalty . |
| 24 | That was certainly the philosophy during the times of economic crisis in the early Eighties when the original run of Barnum played to packed houses , and when the National Theatre hit the jackpot with its first musical , Guys And Dolls . |
| 25 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 26 | Not unnaturally there is considerable sensitivity amongst flight crews regarding the use , and particularly the publication of transcriptions of CVRs recovered from crashed aircraft . |
| 27 | On April 10 , 1990 , the Regional Council of Guadeloupe rejected on environmental grounds proposals from the Black Diamond petroleum company to build in Guadeloupe a refinery capable of processing 15,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the affidavit sworn on 24 May 1990 of Mr. Richard Small , the defendant 's counsel at the trial , deposes that on 29 July 1982 the Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica issued to all Crown counsel and clerks of the court a memorandum which stated : |
| 29 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 30 | In the final simulation however , the continued presence of PSCs resulted in elevated levels of ClO ( Fig. 3 c ) and substantial ozone destruction . |