Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year , Napoleon was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the French forces after his victories in Italy and , in subsequent years , he won such remarkable victories that he was able to appoint himself as First Consul in November 1799 , and was made Emperor in 1804 . |
| 2 | Pillai was sent as assistant commissioner of the Raipur District of the Central Provinces , where he learned ‘ on the job ’ the art of administering to the needs of half a million people . |
| 3 | During the last war Bert was asked if lie had received his " Calling up papers " , his reply was " They will have to take the old horse as well " . |
| 4 | In County Durham the A689 at Killhope was blocked but police said there were no major incidents on the roads . |
| 5 | According to Fredegar , Merovech was conceived when Chlodio 's wife went swimming , and encountered a Quinotaur . |
| 6 | David Adams was killed while cycling home just ten days before Christmas . |
| 7 | In March 1991 B. P. Singh was appointed as governor of Goa [ see p. 38102 ] . |
| 8 | Arjun Singh was replaced as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on Jan. 25 , 1989 , by Moti Lal Vora , hitherto central Minister of Health and Family Welfare . |
| 9 | Singh was replaced as Prime Minister on Nov. 10 by Chandra Shekhar whose Council of Ministers was sworn in on Nov. 21 [ see pp. 37854-55 ] . |
| 10 | On the one hand Mrs Singh was told that his drawing and writing were immature , that he was still drawing and writing like a very young child ; yet later she was told that he was very good with a pencil and talented at art ! |
| 11 | Lady Eleanor was killed and the riders left empty handed . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The Lady Eleanor was murdered because she was planning to flee Godstowe . |
| 13 | In a letter penned on behalf of the Archbishop of Rouen by a famous stylist , Peter of Blois , Eleanor was reminded that it was a wife 's duty to submit , a reminder backed up by the threat of ecclesiastical sanctions . |
| 14 | Erdenijn Bat-Uul was elected as general secretary of a 15-member political consultative committee , with Dambijn Dorligshaw as his deputy and Achmedijn Murat becoming committee secretary . |
| 15 | Mr Brezhnev was infuriated when Ceausescu used to call for lower Warsaw Pact defence budgets , or established diplomatic relations with Israel , or restored party-to-party relations with China 's Communist party . |
| 16 | Fifty years after the publication of l'Etranger , Geoff Dyer , visits Algeria , where Albert Camus was born and raised , but finds little trace of his ghost |
| 17 | They were following the perimeter of the cricket ground in full view of at least twenty-two other boys , and Richard was damned if he was going to trail in Murray 's wake before this audience . |
| 18 | The USSR KGB was described as " directing , co-ordinating and controlling " the activities of republican bodies [ for formation of Russian Federation KGB see above ] . |
| 19 | In 1127 the count of Flanders was murdered while at prayer in the church of St Donatian in Bruges by the members of a mainly clerical clan to whom he had done disservice ; and Henry and Louis intrigued with the local nobles to ensure the succession of a count to their liking . |
| 20 | At thirty-six years of age Kell was chosen as one of its first two directors and shortly afterwards took over full responsibility for the defensive side . |
| 21 | Dr. Zúñiga was warned that the police might seek reprisals against him , but although he informed the authorities of this , novo specific measures of protection were apparently offered to him . |
| 22 | A Crookes spokeswoman said : ‘ Bedtimers was launched after research showed that a third of parents gave their children adult hot chocolate drinks . |
| 23 | A Crookes spokeswoman said : ‘ Bedtimers was launched after research showed a third of parents gave children adult hot chocolate drinks . |
| 24 | Following his victory in the Oct. 11 parliamentary elections , Georgian State Council chair Eduard Shevardnadze was confirmed as parliamentary chairman and head of state by the new Georgian parliament , meeting on Nov. 6 . |
| 25 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 26 | Here there was an emotional reunion between Mandela and Tambo , once partners in a law firm , who had last met in June 1962 , shortly before Mandela was captured and imprisoned . |
| 27 | The following day Mandela was reported as having softened the ANC 's line , telling diplomats at a meeting in Cape Town that the deadline might be shifted if the government showed a commitment to addressing the issue of township killings . |
| 28 | Said Rugby League public affairs executive David Howes : ‘ Offiah was chosen because he is the greatest personality in the game . |
| 29 | Shortly after returning to Etosha , Ian Hofmeyr was killed when his catching truck , pulling over to make way for a lorry on a park track , rolled onto its side in an irrigation ditch . |
| 30 | Bread rationing continued until July 1948 , and clothes rationing until 1949 ( when the University of Keele was founded and Orwell 's 1984 published ) . |