Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 2 | This may reflect King Henry 's more immediate concern with rebels whose main fortress was only fifteen miles south-west of Poitiers , or it may be that Count William of Angoulême was overshadowed by the more vigorous personality of the new head of the house of Lusignan , Geoffrey de Lusignan . |
| 3 | During the course of May the government of South Korea was shaken by the most serious unrest since President Roh Tae Woo came to power in 1988 . |
| 4 | Reading was voted as the most popular way of relaxing and getting to sleep . |
| 5 | Detective Sergeant Brian Jackson was driving through the more prosperous part of Long Eaton , a village on the outskirts of Nottingham which happened to be just over the Derbyshire border . |
| 6 | The 1895 visit to Swindon , in place of the summer term at St. Paul 's , repeats an earlier pattern in Edward 's life between schools before he won a scholarship to Battersea Grammar School and while his youngest brother Julian was born into the already over-crowded house at 61 Shelgate Road . |
| 7 | All the Foreign Office ministers , headed by Lord Carrington , had to resign from the government , though Carrington was replaced by the hardly more resolute figure of Pym . |
| 8 | Shameem Alam Khan was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago this week their world fell apart when their youngest child , Brian was murdered in the most gruesome of circumstances . |
| 10 | Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street . |
| 11 | We can see that it coincided with the beginning of that period when society in Britain was to adjust to the absolutely new conditions of the Industrial Revolution , to develop the political thought that signalled the recognition of the need to adjust , and of the institutions to realise the adjustment . |
| 12 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 13 | William Green was fascinated by the ever changing effects which caused the Cumbrian weather . |
| 14 | In February , Gordon Bowers was appointed to the newly created position of Commercial Manager at Lyle Carpets for the purchasing and control of all materials . |
| 15 | Responsibility for the land defence of Gibraltar was assumed by the locally raised Gibraltar regiment ; units of the British navy and air force continued to maintain a presence . |
| 16 | In particular , the period from 1929 to 1931 , when the PCF was dominated by the unrelentingly sectarian leadership of Barbe and Celor , seemingly obsessed with the sole task of eliminating deviationists from the party line , with all the catastrophic consequences that this entailed ( reduced party membership , loss of electoral support , reduced sales of L'Humanite ) , represents a dark period in the history of the party itself . |
| 17 | Flaubert 's choice of contingent , and arguably naturalist content in Madame Bovary was governed by the very trivial and insignificant character of such content . |
| 18 | China has learned to be sceptical on that score , but on March 20th Mr Li was talking to the theoretically converted — the 2,700 delegates to the annual National People 's Congress in Beijing . |
| 19 | Nigeria was confirmed as the most populous African country , with its northern states ( 46,800,000 people ) shown as more populous than those in the south ( 41,200,000 people ) . |
| 20 | Now the sky above Dividal was filled with the most glorious Lights I had ever seen , a shimmering waterfall of green light . |
| 21 | Three years ago Miss Joyce was accused by the Today newspaper of stealing letters sent to Princess Anne by her equerry Commander Tim Lawerence . |
| 22 | It was , therefore , apt that the first performance of ‘ Enigma ’ in London was conducted by the internationally renowned German , Hans Richter , who loved the work and championed it . |
| 23 | In choosing the full title , Baden-Powell was responding to the already well-established interest in civics manifested in classroom instruction , the influence of philosophical idealism in educational circles , the propaganda of the Moral Instruction League and to his association with R. B. Haldane , the War Minister , who was also a professional philosopher and a leading educational theorist . |
| 24 | In addition to retaining his post as Treasurer , Paul Keating was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Deputy Prime Minister following the retirement of Lionel Bowen . |
| 25 | A number of posts were created ; thus Joseph Owana , whose portfolio included Higher Education , became Secretary-General at the Presidency , while Marcel Niat-Njifenjou was appointed to the newly created post of Vice-Prime Minister . |
| 26 | Dr Clark said Leeds was regarded as the more modern of the plants . |
| 27 | That privilege was given to the women a year ago after one of their colleagues Anna McGurk was murdered in the more remote Castlemeads car park . |