Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that month , the former Rangers and Scotland forward Andy Cunningham was appointed manager of Newcastle and although he had played alongside Gallacher in the Scotland team a few years before , there was no great bond between the two . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Abd al-Basit Sabdrat was appointed Minister of Education and Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed , his predecessor , became Minister of Culture and Information . |
| 3 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1624 Scott was elected MP for Canterbury in a fierce campaign inflamed by anti-Catholicism . |
| 6 | There were no other candidates and Scott was appointed director in January 1867 . |
| 7 | At the same time José Carlos Moco was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports . |
| 8 | Claudio Strinati was named Soprintendente for Rome 's artistic and historic heritage in September last year . |
| 9 | Balliol was crowned king at Scone six weeks later and then marched to Galloway to rally the support which the men of that region had traditionally shown to the Balliol family . |
| 10 | I. Kalinichenko was appointed Commander-in-Chief of border troops . |
| 11 | George Grosz was set designer for Hasek 's Schweik , which Piscator produced in 1928 . |
| 12 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 13 | Lord Hailsham was appointed Minister of Education . |
| 14 | The Ruthvens increased steadily in importance through the 15th and 16th centuries , reaching the summit of their ambitions in 1581 when the fourth Lord Ruthven was created Earl of Gowrie . |
| 15 | The Earl of Warwick was made Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire for life , and Arundel Sheriff of Shropshire for life , a sign than his reconciliation with the king was now complete . |
| 16 | In 1364 Hugh was granted wages of 8d. a day when working at Westminster . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Payne was appointed canon of Christ Church in 1638 , and in November 1642 , in Royalist Oxford , he was made DD . |
| 19 | A POMEROY man found in possession of a vehicle test certificate and two insurance certificates stolen in England was fined £140 at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 20 | Following a general election on Dec. 9 , 1989 , Bernard Dowiyogo was elected President on Dec. 12 by 10 votes to six . |
| 21 | They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Piet Marais was appointed Minister of Manpower and retained the Ministry of Education and Culture . |
| 24 | In November 1945 , Tito was elected President of Yugoslavia . |
| 25 | Partido Justicialista ( Justicialist Party , the official name for the Peronists , of which Menem was elected chairman in August 1990 [ see p. 37651 ] ; Eduardo Menem vice-ch . ) . |
| 26 | Lyons was made chairman for life . |
| 27 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyay was appointed Governor of Rajasthan on Jan. 31 , 1990 , succeeding Sukhdev Prasad who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 28 | * The UKAEA was fined £8,000 with £10,500 costs after the exposure of workers at the Harwell nuclear laboratory to radiation . |
| 29 | On 6th November 1689 Dobson was appointed Schoolmaster of Macclesfield ( at a salary of £60 a year ) , but a faction of the Governors there installed Caleb Pott instead . |
| 30 | In 1798 Jacques Etienne was appointed Governor of Rome and in 1809 Napoleon elevated his Celtic general to the status of Marshall of France . |