Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr Garrod , who had been appointed head of geography at a Chesterfield school , was rushed to hospital by a passing motorist but never regained consciousness . |
| 2 | He had been appointed demonstrator in anatomy in his second year as a student , a remarkable achievement . |
| 3 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , it was reported that Raja Ramanna , a former chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission , had been appointed Minister of State for Defence . |
| 4 | Yameogo had been appointed Minister of Agriculture in July 1991 , but had resigned from the government in August [ see p. 38424 ] . |
| 5 | Radio Pakistan announced on July 12 that Sardar Gul Mohammad Khan Jogezai had been appointed Governor of Baluchistan . |
| 6 | It was reported on May 20 that Syeda Abida Hussain had been appointed adviser on population welfare to the Prime Minister and thus the government 's first woman member with Cabinet status . |
| 7 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 8 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 9 | Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 10 | Before their attack 356 ( 23% ) patients had been prescribed treatment at step 2 , 275 ( 77% ) of whom remained at step 2 or lower after the attack , and 81 ( 23% ) had their treatment stepped up according to recommended guidelines . |
| 11 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 12 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
| 13 | This was chiefly because Geoffrey Stallibrass had been made Director of Aviation Safety in the Ministry of Aviation and his keen sense of the practical got things moving . |
| 14 | Toby Chauncy ( 1673–1733 ) , a cousin of Richard Chauncy and a former owner of the house , had been elected Member of Parliament for Banbury in 1730 [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 15 | In eastern Europe the kingdom of Hungary had early and direct relations with the papacy , for the Arpad , the holy Stephen , had been crowned king with insignia given by the pope in the year 1000 . |
| 16 | The issue was mastery of western Christendom , over which Charlemagne had been crowned emperor on Christmas Day 800 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 18 | It had originally occupied a position at Sidi Bel Abbe s , but when the Legion left Algeria it had been dismantled stone by stone and brought to its present resting place at Aubagne . |
| 19 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 20 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |