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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the sinecures were chiefly the remaining canonries in cathedrals and colleges.
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Barnes railway bridge was a sinecure compared with the limbo of the Willesden Marshalling Yards.
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Both categories could keep any number of sinecures with their permitted number of cures.
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It was not long before the Princess proved that her patronage was not intended as a sinecure .
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The schoolmaster's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley, a Magdalen living.
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This lucrative sinecure was owned from 1554 to 1723 by the Thurn-Taxis family.