Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry de Silva was formally appointed army Chief of Staff on Oct. 23 . |
| 2 | LENNY HENRY was yesterday named BBC Personality of the Year by the Television and Radio Industries Club . |
| 3 | LENNY HENRY was yesterday named BBC personality of the year by the Television and Radio Industries Club . |
| 4 | Sancito Caro Brito [ named as Coco Brito on p. 37708 ] ; Jacqueline Mercedes Malagón was later appointed Education Minister in place of Pedro Gil Iturbes , who had been appointed earlier in the year but had resigned after Belaguer publicly accused him of jeopardizing an agreement between the government and the teachers ' association . |
| 5 | The death of the lord lieutenant of Suffolk , Theophilus Howard , second Earl of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , on 3 June 1640 , brought Jermyn joint appointment as lord lieutenant with James Howard , the third earl [ q.v. ] ; he succeeded in quelling troop unrest at Beccles and Bungay in July 1640 , and during the summer was also appointed deputy lieutenant in Cornwall . |
| 6 | Here he gained experience in locomotive building and his ability sufficiently impressed Charles F. Beyer , in charge of the locomotive department , so that in 1842 he recommended Ramsbottom as locomotive superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway , which in 1846 became part of the London and North Western , of which he was then appointed district superintendent of the north-east division . |
| 7 | David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support . |
| 8 | He was subsequently appointed deputy director of Directorate S , the most sinister division within the KGB . |
| 9 | The CRE was recently refused government funding of £140,000 to continue research into a method of extracting carbon dioxide produced by power stations and pumping it into depleted North Sea oil and gas wells , neutralising its environmental impact . |