Example sentences of "and was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Second Session was entitled , ‘ Is there any real value in Embalming ? ’ and was presented by Mr Arnold Dodge . |
| 2 | He fought for King Charles in the Civil War and was killed at Marston Moor in 1644 . |
| 3 | MacLauchlan had been elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1832 ( he read papers in 1833 and 1842 ) , and was acknowledged by W. D. Conybeare and G. B. Greenough [ qq.v. ] , both eminent geologists of the day . |
| 4 | Ida Smedley died 2 March 1944 in a nursing home and was cremated at Golders Green . |
| 5 | He was a bright boy with a gift for mathematics , and was sent to Gresham College to study engineering , but soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 joined the Royal Flying Corps and served as a flight-lieutenant in No. 73 Squadron in France . |
| 6 | The next day he felt worse and was sent to Tampere Univeristy Hospital . |
| 7 | It is a central doctrine of Christianity that the womb of the Virgin Mary became the means by which God descended into human form and was born as Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | Abelard of Mallion was the first Rottweiler to be used by the Metropolitan Police and was handled by Inspector Roy Hunter . |
| 9 | The race took place in the Greyhound Hotel and was organized by landlord Dave Mason . |
| 10 | His collection was particularly strong in German prints — it includes works by the Master E.S. , the Master P.W. , and the Master of South Germany , active between 1490 and 1500 — and was consulted by print experts from Zani in the late eighteenth century to Lehrs and Kristeller in more recent times . |
| 11 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |
| 12 | He is a former Whitby town councillor and was elected to Cleveland county council in 1985 . |
| 13 | All were reappointed by Fujimori , but Félix Canal Torres , the Minister for Fisheries , subsequently resigned over accusations of favouritism and incompetence , and was replaced by Augustín Sobero . |
| 14 | In October Bernardo Cabral resigned as Justice Minister and was replaced by Jarbas Passarinho [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 15 | Sayed Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiya resigned as Foreign Minister on May 13 and was replaced by Mubarak Ali al-Khater , hitherto Minister of Power and Water . |
| 16 | The Interior Minister , Col. Ricardo Méndez Ruiz , resigned for " health reasons " on April 26 and was replaced by Fernando Hurtado , hitherto a " human rights assistant " to President Jorge Serrano Elias . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Jure Pelivan resigned on Nov. 9 and was replaced by Mile Akmadzic . |
| 18 | Fujimori appointed a new Cabinet on his inauguration on July 28 , 1990 [ see p. 37608 ] ; the Minister of Agriculture , Carlos Amat y Léon , resigned in October and was replaced by Enrique Ross Link [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 19 | Iannella was later succeeded by Rodolfo Rossi , who resigned on Jan. 22 , 1990 , and was replaced by Enrique Eugenio Folcini . |
| 20 | Josef Riegler , who had already been replaced as Federal Vice-Chancellor by ÖVP president Erhard Busek on July 2 , resigned as Minister for Federalism and for Administrative Reform in the Federal Chancellery , and was replaced by Jurgen Weiss , while Johannes Ditz succeeded Günter Stummvoll as Minister of State to the Finance Minister . |
| 21 | Hans-Jurgen Schulz , the FDP Economy Minister for Thuringia , resigned for health reasons and was replaced by Jurgen Bohn . |
| 22 | George Raft , originally set to take the non-speaking title role , turned down the offer before shooting , reportedly because of ill health , and was replaced by Cesar Romero , in what was barely a cameo . |
| 23 | Men Sam An resigned from the secretariat " for health reasons " and was replaced by Lt.-Gen Ke Kimyan , First Defence Minister . |
| 24 | After a period of prolonged popular opposition Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , as laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 25 | The Labour Minister Peter Okondo resigned in August [ see also below ] and was replaced by Philip Masinde . |
| 26 | Miguel Rodríguez , who was appointed as president of the Central Bank only in February , resigned on April 1 and was replaced by Ruth de Krivoy , the first woman to hold the post . |
| 27 | The Interior Minister , Antonio Gava , resigned on health grounds on Oct. 15 and was replaced by Vincenzo Scotti , leader of the Christian Democratic ( DC ) group in parliament . |
| 28 | Economy and Finance Minister Mohiaddine Salah left the government and was replaced by Safi Abdelkader , hitherto Public Works and Transport Minister . |
| 29 | On July 8 Sid Ahmed Ghozali resigned as Prime Minister and was replaced by Belaid Abdesselam . |
| 30 | On March 31 Mikis Theodorakis resigned from the government , leaving the ruling New Democracy party with a one-seat majority ; the National Economy Minister , Epthymios Christodoulou , had left his post on Feb. 10 to head the Bank of Greece , and was replaced by Stefanos Manos . |