Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 2 | The Autonomous Republic of Buryatia was extending economic co-operation with ethnically similar and neighbouring Mongolia . |
| 3 | When in 1830 the Duchess of Northumberland was appointed official governess , Lehzen stayed as lady in attendance and Victoria 's constant attendant , without an official appointment , until 1842 , acting latterly as her secretary in private matters . |
| 4 | Secondly , the decision to screen 16 Hong Kong meetings between now and the end of March was taken last year before firm plans about all-weather racing had been drawn up . |
| 5 | Successive kings had no reason to grumble , cathedral chapters were happy to elect , and the Church of England was given good leaders — William Temple of York and George Bell of Chichester among them . |
| 6 | A MAN being questioned by police investigating a series of attacks on horses across the south of England was released last night after being eliminated from inquiries . |
| 7 | Sir William Herbert of Swansea was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for disorderly riots in Cardiff ; Edward , Lord Stafford , refused to allow the sheriff of Shropshire to execute judgement against him in a dispute over Cawes Castle ; Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Tortworth , Gloucestershire , was fined 2,000 marks and removed from his offices for accepting bribes and maintaining quarrels . |
| 8 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 9 | Each dose level of HCL was given four rats from each dietary group . |
| 10 | When the new state of Israel was declared this act would be considered an unforgivable sin . |
| 11 | " The Mayor of Aberdare was assassinated this morning as he stepped from a train at Swansea station . |
| 12 | KHALID SKAH of Morocco was crowned Olympic champion to jeers last night after his off-on victory in the 10,000 metres . |
| 13 | The Duke of Bedford was appointed Grand Visitor and Samuel Whitbread the Second became Perpetual President . |
| 14 | At the time my survey was carried out , the social fabric of Zambia was undergoing great changes . |
| 15 | The first Qumran-style desert community was established by Pachomius around 320 — at precisely the time that the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome was gaining official sanction for itself from Constantine . |
| 16 | THE Princess of Wales was accused last night of damaging the royal tour of Korea and putting her marriage in danger again . |
| 17 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 18 | But she denied that the only reason she later gave evidence against Frak was to avoid any suspicion that she 'd hit Mrs Fribbens . |
| 19 | He felt that his relationship with Marcus was undergoing deep changes willed not by himself , but by him . |
| 20 | Mozart 's involvement with Freemasonry was to have enormous influence on the last seven years of his life . |
| 21 | THE Ritzy nightclub in Bromborough was awarded first place in the regional heat of the 1993 Molson British Entertainment and Discotheque Awards . |
| 22 | The Houston Astrodome in Texas was built many years ago and offers 24 acres of covered facilities . |
| 23 | A PROVISIONAL cease-fire between warring Moslems and Serbs in Sarajevo was announced last night by European Community mediator Lord Owen and UN peace envoy Cyrus Vance . |
| 24 | The behavioural objective in Norway was to reduce established prevalence of smoking . |
| 25 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 26 | My other music influence was Western Swing , which is really just white man 's blues , so I decided that the only way to make a living in France was to play that kind of music . |
| 27 | Mills , who 's unemployed and lives in Oxford was arrested twelve days after he ran down Miss Deeley , after a joyriding display in Oxford . |
| 28 | The deadline for the departure of the PKK from Iraq was extended several times . |
| 29 | On the eve of the Great War the entertainment world in Glasgow was going great guns . |
| 30 | She looked so fresh and happy that I started grinning as soon as I waved to her , standing below me in the cockpit of the boat , where a servant from Faalifu was carrying some packages while Captain Baker looked down from the bridge . |