Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 7 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 8 | Gaidar was made Minister of Finance , and Andrei Nechayev ( Gaidar 's first deputy ) became Minister of the Economy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A POLICEMAN 'S wife was taken hostage at gunpoint yesterday — only 24 hours before facing a cancer probe operation . |
| 13 | In March food supplies purchased by the Commissariat of War for the Red Army were given priority in evacuation at the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk over ARA famine stocks . |
| 14 | Moreover , as Alexander 's reign proceeded the government was given cause for alarm by the most radical section of the educated public : the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia . |
| 15 | In the compilation of the Eton College Choirbook of c .1500–4 his music was accorded pride of place . |
| 16 | Mohamed Toilibou of the Mouvement démocratique populaire ( MDP ) was placed in charge of Production , Industry , Crafts and Rural Development , and Mohamed el Arif Oukacha of the Front populaire Mohélien was named Minister of Education and Vocational Training . |
| 17 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |
| 18 | This was clearly demonstrated in Duncan Sandys ' second Defence White Paper , published in February 1958 , in which disarmament was given pride of place . |
| 19 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
| 20 | Khalfan bin Nasir al-Wahabi , formerly Minister of Electricity and Water , was confirmed as Minister of Environment and Water Resources , while Mohammad bin Ali al-Qatabi was appointed Minister of Electricity and Water . |
| 21 | Clanricarde was appointed under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1826 , a post he resigned after Canning 's death in 1827 . |
| 22 | Shortly after the outbreak of war in 1914 Fowler became secretary to the railway munitions committee and the following year was appointed director of production at the Ministry of Munitions . |
| 23 | Amadou Modi Dial was made Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals . |
| 24 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 25 | Bassary Touré was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance , and Bakary Mariko Minister of Planning and International Co-operation . |
| 26 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 27 | ‘ Chief , that gag was done back on page 16 and it stank then . ’ |
| 28 | The Yak was flown airfreight via Anchorage and into Vancouver , making the remainder of the journey by road . |
| 29 | This explains why the general election was delayed time after time : clearly , all that mattered was the recession . |
| 30 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |