Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was secretary of the working party which produced the statement . |
| 2 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 3 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 4 | She was secretary of the local Red Cross for many years and on retirement was made an honorary life member and awarded a badge of honour . |
| 5 | She sat and held her breath , and felt that she could hear the trees growing around her and that she was part of the same quiet measured progress , in a world devoid of people . |
| 6 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 7 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 8 | The decision created ripples throughout California , Joanne is a computer expert , she was head of the technical division at the California state lottery until her firing earlier this year after a period of sick leave . |
| 9 | She was matron of the large Dufferin Hospital which was bombed on Christmas Day , and in fear eighty of her Burmese nurses fled , leaving her with two English sisters , and a few good Anglo-Indian nurses . |
| 10 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 11 | She was president of the Genetical Society in 1936 . |
| 12 | In Hampstead she was president of the local committee of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . |
| 13 | MOST of Ravenna 's history and its art treasures revolve around the years 402-476AD when it was capital of the Western Roman Empire . |
| 14 | Haynes fell with the score on 57 , Gomes was missed immediately and Greenidge was missed when he had 110 ; apart from that it was batsmanship of the highest quality . |
| 15 | The ÖVP in Carinthia , although it was part of the provincial governing coalition dominated by Haider 's FPÖ , nevertheless supported an SPÖ resolution passed by the Landtag calling for Haider 's resignation . |
| 16 | It was part of the divine plan , linked with famine , flood , and plague as a manifestation of God 's punishment for sins committed . |
| 17 | It was part of the general understanding that supporters would be asked to express preferences for all the UUUC candidates in any one constituency . |
| 18 | It was part of the intensified scrutiny of female behaviour and the sexual habits of the urban poor , under the impact of social and political conditions in mid-nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 19 | It was part of the deep past of this country , a past that could always be felt . |
| 20 | All this was taken for granted ; it was part of the Pahlavi style . |
| 21 | On another , it was part of the wider Middle East conflict involving all Arab States in their war against Israel . |
| 22 | By 1676 it was part of the main Oxford to Coventry road and of course remains as a major trunk road today . |
| 23 | It was part of the defoliant Agent Orange , that the US forces sprayed on Vietnamese forests during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 24 | It was part of the larger movement of self-improvement by working people and not surprisingly , given Nonconformist domination , it used religious language and insisted on ‘ conversion ’ and renunciation . |
| 25 | Many people feel that that constituted a deliberate attempt by the city council to block Goodwood road , even though the council knew that it was part of the long-planned eastern relief road . |
| 26 | For centuries it was part of the richest life support system in the world . |
| 27 | For him it was part of the natural order of things that a rising ‘ larger nation ’ like Prussia should absorb Poland and the Poles . |
| 28 | It was part of the same southern European pattern that at the same time Greece shook off one more episode of military dictatorship , and with it the monarchy , and established a democratic republic . |
| 29 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 30 | This will result in limited choice for the consumer and a lack of innovation ( eg British Telecom phone equipment , which for many years was severely limited whilst it was part of the public sector ) . |