Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the time that General Marian Spychalski was replaced as Minister of National Defence in 1968 , the Army steadily lost its appeal as a vehicle for intrigue . |
| 2 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 3 | Wright was captured by Match of the Day cameras cuffing Tottenham 's David Howells off the ball in Saturday 's tempestuous North London derby . |
| 4 | Chung Soon Duk was replaced as secretary-general of the DLP by Kim Young Whan , the party 's floor leader . |
| 5 | In concrete terms , de Valera was acting on behalf of the established economic interests of rural Ireland , in particular the small landowners and small businessmen . |
| 6 | Maj.-Gen Larbi Belkheir was replaced as Minister of the Interior by Mohammed Hardi , a civilian . |
| 7 | Of the NRC members nominated by the President , Betty Bigombe was named as Minister of State in the Prime Minister 's Office resident in north central Uganda , and as such in charge of the pacification campaign in the north . |
| 8 | On 28 April , Terence O'Neill resigned and his cousin Major James Chichester-Clark was elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and hence Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 10 | Suddenly Rokeya was standing in front of her , looking down at her . |
| 11 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 12 | Mr Corden 's departure comes less than a month after Frank Gray was sacked as manager of the Third Division 's bottom club . |
| 13 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 14 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 15 | Wolfgang Schwanitz was dismissed as Head of the Office of National Security . |
| 16 | Rafael Leonardo Callejas was inaugurated as President of Honduras for a four-year term on Jan. 27 , 1990 . |
| 17 | Raghunath Reddy was appointed as Governor of Tripura on Jan. 31 , 1990 . |
| 18 | In case anyone should be tempted to see this as a sign of weakness , the ultra-authoritarian Blas Pérez González was replaced as Minister of the Interior by the even more hardline Camilo Alonso Vega , former head of the Civil Guard and one of Franco 's oldest and closest friends from their days as soldiers in Africa . |
| 19 | American-Soviet agreement on respective zones in Korea was attained through acceptance of the 38th parallel as the dividing line between the Soviet-controlled area to the north and the American-controlled area to the south . |
| 20 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 21 | The phosphoinositide signalling pathway may have a role to play because this tetanus-induced onset of LTP was enhanced by activation of the mGlu receptor . |
| 22 | He said that he had presumed that Khumalo was speaking on behalf of Buthelezi , but realized that he was incorrect . |
| 23 | A report by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua on Oct. 4 stated that the party had dropped " for good " its original structure of central committee , presidium and chairmanship ; a 169-member Small Hural was elected in place of the central committee , and an 11-member committee in place of the presidium . |
| 24 | Kinsai was constructed on top of a plug of volcanic rock which rose sheer for almost a thousand metres out of an almost perfectly flat and featureless plain . |
| 25 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |
| 26 | On 9 May William Berkeley was put in charge of the Isle of Wight , and the lieutenant of Porchester , of which Woodville was constable , was ordered to deliver the castle to William Ovedale . |
| 27 | On 9 May William Berkeley was put in charge of the Isle of Wight , and the lieutenant of Porchester , of which Woodville was constable , was ordered to deliver the castle to William Ovedale . |
| 28 | Suddenly , the door opened and Roy was standing in front of her . |
| 29 | During the nationwide extraordinary plenary session of the central committee of the Lao Front for National Construction ( LFNC ) , held in Vientiane on Sept. 5-7 , the former acting President Phoumi Vongvichit was replaced as chair of the LFNC central committee by Maisouk Saisompheng ; the vice-chair , Bolang Boualapha , was replaced by Vongphet Saiken-Yachongtuoa . |
| 30 | Tyrone was to search for evidence of further concealed Coal Measures . |