Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Rourke was commonly referred to as the weatherman , which he was n't at all . |
| 2 | From 1968 onwards Nicaragua was repeatedly referred to in the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly as a State that had accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court , and the United Nations Secretariat had made similar listings . |
| 3 | Numbers of workers on strike throughout Albania in the latter half of May were variously put at between 140,000 and 350,000 , out of a workforce of 700,000 . |
| 4 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 5 | During the World Cup , McKenzie was much sought after by the Victorian media and public . |
| 6 | The PLO central council 's decision to form a joint delegation with Jordan was strongly criticized from within the PLO by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) leader Georges Habash on Oct. 18 . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union decided to endorse the expulsion of Escalante : Castro was henceforth referred to as ‘ comrade ’ and Cuba 's place in the Soviet bloc was officially acknowledged when it was listed along with the other ’ socialist' states in the traditional May Day slogans . |
| 8 | But one of the great ironies of the second world war was that the freedom and democracy that was won back in Western Europe was largely paid for by the blood of Russians . |
| 9 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 10 | Muni was obviously thought of as a major selling point and the public were urged to see this latest offering of the man who ‘ appears in fewer films than any of the big stars ’ . |
| 11 | But groups like Hilton and Sheraton were just hovering outside of the list , both with over 1,000 rooms in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Theudebert was certainly thought of as a great and powerful king . |
| 13 | Bonn was contemptuously referred to as the ‘ capital village ’ . |
| 14 | In addition , Chamberlain was not willing to join the Government without Birkenhead , and Birkenhead was strongly disapproved of by the Conservative rank and file , both in the House and in the country , and particularly by those somewhat prim and self-righteous parts of it in which lay Baldwin 's greatest strength . |