Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also included in this study were known cultures of M avium serovar 2 , M paratuberculosis strain ( Linda ) , M fortuitum ATCC 6841 , Mycobacterium kansasii ATCC 12478 and MG3 medium only . |
| 2 | Paul Ince and Mark Ward both left the club , the former Celtic player Frank McAvennie was fined £6,000 for an alleged fracas with the team 's commercial manager , and the club were fined £20,000 for pitch disturbances during a Littlewoods Cup tie against Wimbledon . |
| 3 | King George VI had lost the title of ‘ Emperor of India ’ when that continent was granted independence in August 1947 , but was delighted at the birth of a grandson , in 1948 , by Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip , and named Charles — destined to become Prince of Wales . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 6 | In mid-August clashes continued between the SNA and pro-Mahdi Mohammed forces in the Galgudud region , central Somalia , and other inter-clan fighting was reported south of Mogadishu . |
| 7 | Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes . |
| 8 | Unless this condition was met inferences about relationships within the sample could not be statistically secured . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mary Law was appointed head of Humanities in September 1978 with the specific task of reorganizing that area of the curriculum . |
| 12 | Declination was given importance by Pierrehumbert ( 1979 , 1987 ) ; see Cruttenden ( 1986 ) , pp.67–72 for a summary . |
| 13 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 14 | The Parents ' Action Committee was sent lists of letters the department claimed to have forwarded to the children , with each addressee mentioned by name . |
| 15 | A new State Administrative Council was made public on May 1990 [ see pp. 37455-56 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 18 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 19 | Gaidar was made Minister of Finance , and Andrei Nechayev ( Gaidar 's first deputy ) became Minister of the Economy . |
| 20 | A similar opinion was expressed obiter in Rattray v. White ( 1891 ) 19 R. ( t. ) 23 . |
| 21 | The plaintiff was awarded £50 in damages . |
| 22 | Mbayo was assigned responsibility for transport , mineral resources and public works , Bio for finance , foreign affairs and information and Kambo for labour , commerce and land matters . |
| 23 | Anne 's closest friend was Sarah Churchill , whose husband was created Duke of Marlborough in 1702 , and who won a resounding victory against the French troops of Louis XIV at Blenheim in 1704 , followed in later years by many other victories , which included the acquisition of Gibraltar , in which Admiral Rooke took a major part . |
| 24 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 25 | The clan chiefs who had taken part against the King were offered pardons on condition that each took an oath of allegiance to King William before 1st January , 1692 . |
| 26 | Victoria Carrington , 23 , of Northolt , west London , a convent-educated stockbroker who attacked a mother and daughter on an Underground train after they knocked into her newspaper was fined £400 by Knightsbridge magistrates and ordered to pay £600 compensation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 27 | Deeside Training Enterprise was given £100,000 by Grampian Enterprise in 1991 to show ex-servicemen and women how best to sell their skills to civilian employers . |
| 28 | The duke was made justiciar of south Wales and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire , which completed his collection of the major offices formerly held by the earl of Pembroke . |
| 29 | The duke was made justiciar of south Wales and steward of Cantrefmawr and Cardiganshire , which completed his collection of the major offices formerly held by the earl of Pembroke . |
| 30 | A POLICEMAN 'S wife was taken hostage at gunpoint yesterday — only 24 hours before facing a cancer probe operation . |