Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's proclamation on 24 February 1943 was , in fact , hardly noticed at all by the population , while reactions to the low-key speech on 21 March 1943 were dominated by the speculation over the astonishingly low figures for German war casualties which Hitler had given . |
| 2 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 3 | Jack took care to keep to the side of Monument Hill that was overgrown with a dense tangle of undergrowth and a little wood . |
| 4 | NEGOTIATIONS are now well in hand with a UK national collection concerning the Handley Page Hampden that was salvaged from the Murmansk area of the USSR and arrived in the UK on September 4 . |
| 5 | ‘ PL 480 was enacted as a means of exporting surplus U.S. commodities to dollar-short nations ’ and ‘ has become an important vehicle for developing commercial export markets , for meeting humanitarian food needs , and for spurring economic and agricultural growth in the developing world ’ ( p.20 ) . |
| 6 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 7 | Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time since the arrival of communist rule in the Russian Federation , the Ukraine , Byelorussia , Georgia and Moldavia , with the endorsement of the USSR government . |
| 8 | A scheduled meeting of the Conference on Jan. 31 was postponed following the unavailability of Irish ministers , who had been required to be present in the Dáil ( lower house of the Irish Parliament ) to secure the passage of their government 's budget . |
| 9 | Jean-Pierre , Denise and the two Danielles were taken round East Lothian schools on Thursday and Friday then were left with a free day on Saturday . |
| 10 | The Sheriff had a sideline flogging water shares , while Richard I was depicted as the England football manager off to play , as I recall , Saracens FC . |
| 11 | An inter-parliamentary conference in Minsk on Jan. 24 was attended by the deputy chairmen of the parliaments of nine or 10 CIS member states ( Uzbekistan was not represented ; nor , according to some reports , was Moldova ) . |
| 12 | In 1689 and 1692 troops of King William III were quartered in the town , on the latter occasion staying for the winter . |
| 13 | According to police sources , the fatal stabbings of four Israeli women in West Jerusalem on March 10 was described as a " message for Baker " by the attacker , Mohammed Mustafa Abu Galla , a 26-year-old Palestinian from Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . |
| 14 | The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 was followed by the signing of the Brussels Treaty with a 50-year term in March . |
| 15 | On 14 July this was superseded by a comprehensive grant of all the lands in Yorkshire and Cumberland entailed to Richard Neville and his heirs male : in other words , all the land in those counties which formed part of the Neville patrimony , as distinct from land which had come into Warwick 's possession from his mother or wife , and which was held in tail general . |
| 16 | On 14 July this was superseded by a comprehensive grant of all the lands in Yorkshire and Cumberland entailed to Richard Neville and his heirs male : in other words , all the land in those counties which formed part of the Neville patrimony , as distinct from land which had come into Warwick 's possession from his mother or wife , and which was held in tail general . |
| 17 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |
| 18 | At the invitation of Bishop Devine Sunday December 6th was marked by the Parishes of the Diocese as CARE SUNDAY . |
| 19 | The Labour Party 's part in bringing down the Chamberlain Government in May 1940 was recognized by the central roles allotted to Labour Ministers in Churchill 's Coalition Government . |
| 20 | But the England international was sidelined for the first 24 games of the current campaign with a stress fracture of the foot . |
| 21 | Journalists and investment analysts attending the preliminary results meetings of Grand Metropolitan ( the international food , drinks and retailing group ) on 3 December 1992 were provided with a plethora of figures . |
| 22 | A visit to Tunis by President Mitterrand of France on July 11 was regarded as a gesture towards repairing relations between the two countries following the popular feeling in Tunisia against the anti-Iraq coalition during the Gulf war . |
| 23 | The EDC treaty signature in May 1952 was followed by a series of problems . |
| 24 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 25 | Both the July 24-25 meeting and the post-ministerial conference between ASEAN and its " dialogue partners " ( Australia , Canada , the European Communities ( EC ) , Japan , New Zealand and the United States ) held on July 27-29 were dominated by the question of Cambodia and in particular the recent US decision to withdraw its support from the Cambodian rebel government at the UN and to enter into talks with Vietnam [ see p. 37598 ] . |
| 26 | The Open Letter broadcast by RFE in February 1977 was addressed to the President of the Socialist Republic of Romania ‘ at the Royal Palace ’ . |
| 27 | The Buddhist Vesak festival on May 27-29 was marked by the official suspension of offensive operations by the army , but the government claimed that nine soldiers were killed by the LTTE during this three-day period . |
| 28 | Rallies in Vlore on Sept. 2 and in Shkoder on Sept. 13 were organized by the DP in alliance with the other parties , and on Sept. 7 supporters of the three parties protested outside the Tirana headquarters of Albania Radio-TV , asking for the dismissal of " leading cadres " and an end to " Stalinist censorship " of news reports . |
| 29 | The massive duchy land grant of May 1469 was replaced by a more limited package of office , although even this was subsequently whittled down further , presumably under pressure from the Stanleys , and parts of the grant of 1471 seem never to have taken effect . |
| 30 | The massive duchy land grant of May 1469 was replaced by a more limited package of office , although even this was subsequently whittled down further , presumably under pressure from the Stanleys , and parts of the grant of 1471 seem never to have taken effect . |