Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Abd al-Basit Sabdrat was appointed Minister of Education and Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed , his predecessor , became Minister of Culture and Information . |
| 3 | In an election on Feb. 14 , 1988 , Georgios Vassiliou was elected President in place of Spyros Kyprianou , and his new Cabinet took office on Feb. 29 [ see pp. 35849-50 ] . |
| 4 | Gen. Shaposhnikov was appointed Minister of Defence , replacing Gen. Moiseyev , whose former position as Chief of General Staff went to Gen. Vladimir Lobov , a known reformer ; Grachev was made Deputy Defence Minister . |
| 5 | At the same time José Carlos Moco was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports . |
| 6 | I. Kalinichenko was appointed Commander-in-Chief of border troops . |
| 7 | Lord Hailsham was appointed Minister of Education . |
| 8 | The men arrested at Stony Stratford were sent north for safekeeping . |
| 9 | The men arrested at Stony Stratford were sent north for safekeeping . |
| 10 | Brennan and Carlin were granted bail on condition that they keep away from witnesses and Nolan was granted unconditional bail . |
| 11 | The assistant manager of the Holmes Cash and Carry on Boucher Crescent was taken by robbers to the warehouse in his Hyundai Pony car while his wife and child were kept hostage at home . |
| 12 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 13 | At last year 's Annual General Meeting ( ‘ AGM ’ ) , the directors were given authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 , until 15th July 1997 to allot shares up to a maximum of the authorised but unissued share capital of the company . |
| 14 | In addition , at last years AGM , the directors were given authority under Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 , until the conclusion of the 1993 AGM , to allot equity securities for cash , other than to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings , up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,234,276 being equal to 5% of the then issued ordinary share capital . |
| 15 | January 1936 : In South Wales , particularly in the Rhonda Valley the tramp of thousands of feet was heard day after day . |
| 16 | In the aftermath of this triumph , in May 1963 , Sukarno was elected President For Life by the People 's Consultative Congress which had replaced parliament . |
| 17 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 18 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 19 | Piet Marais was appointed Minister of Manpower and retained the Ministry of Education and Culture . |
| 20 | Lyons was made chairman for life . |
| 21 | Under the terms of the Honiara accord the rebels were given immunity from prosecution , together with the promises that the government would remove its blockade and would not attempt to re-establish its troops upon the island by force . |
| 22 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 23 | Despite the recession , since Trevor Tarring was appointed chairman of Metal Bulletin in September 1990 , shares in the publishing and conference group have gained almost 65 p.c . |
| 24 | Djohar named a 12-member Cabinet on March 22 , among whom Kemal was named as Minister of State for Economy and Trade , and de facto second in the governing hierarchy ; Mroudjae was appointed Minister of Production , Industry and Handicrafts . |
| 25 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 26 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 27 | Gaidar was made Minister of Finance , and Andrei Nechayev ( Gaidar 's first deputy ) became Minister of the Economy . |
| 28 | Gheorghe Robu was appointed Prosecutor-General by decree of the NSF Council on Jan. 11 . |
| 29 | Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation on March 25 , 1990 . |
| 30 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |