Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies . |
| 2 | This was done industry by industry [ at SIC Class level ] and separately for large and small companies . |
| 3 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 4 | Tony Greener was appointed chairman of Guinness PLC in January 1993 , after being chief executive from January 1992 . |
| 5 | The six were taken prison in Beirut at the end of 1987 by the Lebanese Forces militia . |
| 6 | John XXIII was elected pope in October 1958 . |
| 7 | In 800 Pope Leo III was taken prisoner by relatives of his predecessor Hadrian I. They tried to blind him , but he escaped and fled over the Alps to Charles , who was encamped at Paderborn in central Saxony . |
| 8 | All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers . |
| 9 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 10 | All were given prednisolone before surgery . |
| 11 | Stockton thirds were crowned champions of division three as they beat Darlington 4–1 . |
| 12 | In December 1 154 Henry II was crowned King of England . |
| 13 | Charles II was proclaimed king in May 1660 and , because parliament declared he had been de jure king since his father 's death , his first year of actual kingship was designated his twelfth and a starting date of 29 May was adopted . |
| 14 | In 1951 he received the Godman Salvin medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union , and in 1957 was appointed CBE for services to ornithology . |
| 15 | Though neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives a death date in the article on Fahreddin Acemi , Mecdi mentions in his article on Molla " Abd al-Karim ( Abdulkerim ) that the latter was appointed Mufti in Constantinople in 870/1465–6 after Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 16 | Nebot received the support of the right-wing ( PSC ) former President León Febres Cordero Rivadeneira , arrested in January 1990 on corruption charges [ see p. 37482 ] , who on May 17 was elected mayor of Guayaquil with 70 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | The Battle of Britain was beginning , and on 10 August No. 603 was ordered south to Hornchurch . |
| 18 | And one in ten were awarded bonuses of 29pc or more of basic salary . |
| 19 | Two more Iraqi fighters crossing into the zone on Dec. 28 were chased north without damage . |
| 20 | Martha Lovelace became a maid of honour to Queen Caroline in 1732 and in 1756 was appointed housekeeper of Windsor Castle . |
| 21 | That was said year after year . |
| 22 | And that was done piece by piece as it was possible to do it . |
| 23 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 24 | Salomon Brothers Inc was lead manager with Lehman Brothers and Needham & Co as co-managers . |