Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 2 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 3 | Andrew O'Brien equalised Jamie Cassidy 's opening goal just after the break and Chris Pollock scored the winner from the penalty spot after Ian Harty was fouled with 11 minutes left . |
| 4 | The violin-leader La Houssaye was admired in 1777 as a premier violon mostly worthy to direct ( conduire ) his orchestra in a concert . |
| 5 | JOHN Patrick Crowley was born on 23rd July , 1941 in Newbury . |
| 6 | Built as a rival to the parish church at Lavenham , Long Melford was financed by local parishioners , some of whose names were carved in stone around the clerestory in an inscription which called for prayers to be said for their souls . |
| 7 | General Galtieri was acquitted on human rights charges but sentenced first by a military court , then , on appeal , by a civilian court on his conduct of the 1982 Falklands War . |
| 8 | The Jesuit College of the Malá Strana was founded in 1628 , under the patronage of Albrecht Wallenstein . |
| 9 | Edwin Montagu was accused of anti-British motives for his Indian policy ; with Reading as Viceroy there were openings for the diehards " latent anti-semitism . |
| 10 | And now she knew that those responsible were Shi'ite terrorists from Iran , while Philippe Chaumont was held by Shi'ite terrorists in Lebanon . |
| 11 | The eagerly-awaited showdown between Alan Shearer and Ian Wright was upstaged by two Kevins Gallacher and Campbell as Blackburn Rovers drew 1-1 with Arsenal at Ewood Park . |
| 12 | The Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was dismissed after 20 months in office by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan on Aug. 6 . |
| 13 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 14 | The BeSHT — ben Eliezer is known by that acronym — produced a shock-wave of such proportions in Judaism that it has still not recovered from him . |
| 15 | They were married in 1949 ; Marc Bischof was born in 1950 , Daniel in 1954 , nine days after his father 's death . |
| 16 | When Andy Reed was capped about 20-odd of his family came from Livingstone to watch him . |
| 17 | Thomas Cranmer and Aleister Crowley were held in uneasy balance in his sympathies . |
| 18 | Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool . |
| 19 | American David Bohm is regarded as one of the world 's foremost theoretical physicists . |
| 20 | Dr Neil Cochrane was engaged in one of the worst tasks a doctor had to face : attempting to save the life of a young girl and the child she was trying to bear , after earlier neglect and mismanagement from the moment the birth had begun . |
| 21 | The emergence of brilliant teenagers like Nicky Barmby , Andy Turner , Stuart Nethercott and Andy Hill were introduced into first-team action and Venables predicted a bright future for the club . |
| 22 | The High Performance Fortran FORALL is based on this development , but adds nested FORALL statements , limited function calls and multiple statement capabilities . |
| 23 | Ritwik Ghatak was born in 1925 in Dacca , East Bengal , the capital of present day Bangladesh . |
| 24 | At some point in 1975 , when he was seventy-eight and beginning to feel weary , Pope Paul VI made the following note : The whole of Giovanni Battista Montini is contained in these lines . |
| 25 | Like the rest of the Borg , Jean Luc is stripped of all individual personality and forced to walk around with wires poking out from all his most intimate parts . |
| 26 | The Commissar , 22 year old Peter Jacobs and 21 year old Nicklo Pedro were sentenced to 14 years . |
| 27 | Richard Dunwoody is quoted at 13–8 after a magnificent five-timer at Chepstow on Saturday put him four clear at the top of the table . |
| 28 | In late May 1989 Konstantin Kharchev was removed without official announcement from the chairmanship of the Council for Religious Affairs ( CRA , the Council of Ministers ' body controlling the churches ) . |
| 29 | For traditional criticism it did not make an especial difference whether the date of composition of Milton 's Samson Agonistes was assigned to 1647–53 during the Civil War or to the Restoration period of 1660–70 . |
| 30 | Joe , who is a moral character , is associated with images of white , light and warmth , while the old Miss Havisham is associated with yellow , decay and crying or wailing sounds . |