Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mary Law was appointed head of Humanities in September 1978 with the specific task of reorganizing that area of the curriculum . |
| 8 | Declination was given importance by Pierrehumbert ( 1979 , 1987 ) ; see Cruttenden ( 1986 ) , pp.67–72 for a summary . |
| 9 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 10 | A new State Administrative Council was made public on May 1990 [ see pp. 37455-56 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 13 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 14 | Gaidar was made Minister of Finance , and Andrei Nechayev ( Gaidar 's first deputy ) became Minister of the Economy . |
| 15 | A similar opinion was expressed obiter in Rattray v. White ( 1891 ) 19 R. ( t. ) 23 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A POLICEMAN 'S wife was taken hostage at gunpoint yesterday — only 24 hours before facing a cancer probe operation . |
| 21 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 22 | event , at least in the short term , most of these multifarious properties would be safe : North Parade was cut east of Pig Street itself , with the result that Charles Titford 's shop , already exposed on its south side in 1783 , would now have a naked eastern flank as well , leaving it on a kind of promontory . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Her young man was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and not so long ago her father was badly hurt in the Clydeside blitz , but you 'd never know it . ’ |
| 25 | Then , in May 1952 , the Bonn Treaty was made conditional on Germany drafting troops for service in a European Army . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 28 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 29 | In the compilation of the Eton College Choirbook of c .1500–4 his music was accorded pride of place . |
| 30 | On July 10-11 the army was deployed south of Sidon , in the Tyre area , hitherto the PLO 's southernmost refuge . |