Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Abd al-Basit Sabdrat was appointed Minister of Education and Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed , his predecessor , became Minister of Culture and Information . |
| 2 | Gen. Shaposhnikov was appointed Minister of Defence , replacing Gen. Moiseyev , whose former position as Chief of General Staff went to Gen. Vladimir Lobov , a known reformer ; Grachev was made Deputy Defence Minister . |
| 3 | At the same time José Carlos Moco was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports . |
| 4 | I. Kalinichenko was appointed Commander-in-Chief of border troops . |
| 5 | Lord Hailsham was appointed Minister of Education . |
| 6 | The men arrested at Stony Stratford were sent north for safekeeping . |
| 7 | The men arrested at Stony Stratford were sent north for safekeeping . |
| 8 | Brennan and Carlin were granted bail on condition that they keep away from witnesses and Nolan was granted unconditional bail . |
| 9 | In the aftermath of this triumph , in May 1963 , Sukarno was elected President For Life by the People 's Consultative Congress which had replaced parliament . |
| 10 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 11 | Piet Marais was appointed Minister of Manpower and retained the Ministry of Education and Culture . |
| 12 | Lyons was made chairman for life . |
| 13 | Despite the recession , since Trevor Tarring was appointed chairman of Metal Bulletin in September 1990 , shares in the publishing and conference group have gained almost 65 p.c . |
| 14 | Djohar named a 12-member Cabinet on March 22 , among whom Kemal was named as Minister of State for Economy and Trade , and de facto second in the governing hierarchy ; Mroudjae was appointed Minister of Production , Industry and Handicrafts . |
| 15 | Gheorghe Robu was appointed Prosecutor-General by decree of the NSF Council on Jan. 11 . |
| 16 | Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation on March 25 , 1990 . |
| 17 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |
| 18 | Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo retained his position as the Front 's secretary in charge of political affairs , while Capt. Gilbert Diendere was reappointed secretary in charge of defence and security . |
| 19 | Wade was appointed Minister of State , a post whose responsibilities were not immediately defined . |
| 20 | A Unionist in politics , Wolff was elected MP for East Belfast in 1892 and was returned unopposed at the next four general elections , until his retirement in 1910 . |
| 21 | Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits . |
| 22 | Alured was commissioned captain of horse 10 August 1642 and became colonel in May 1643 . |
| 23 | Kwaouvi Benyi Johnson was appointed Minister of Information . |
| 24 | David Mellor was appointed Minister of State at the Privy Council Office with responsibility for the arts ; Angela Rumbold took over his previous post of Minister of State at the Home Office and was replaced as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science by Timothy Eggar . |
| 25 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 26 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 27 | On his return in 1891 , Knott was appointed lecturer in mathematics and in 1892 reader in applied mathematics at Edinburgh University . |
| 28 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 29 | Janusz Ziolkowski was appointed head of the Presidential Chancellery , and Jerzy Milewski was appointed Minister of State and also as Secretary of the Committee for National Defence , replacing Maciej Zalewski . |
| 30 | An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 . |