Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First production from Draugen — BPNorway 's most valuable asset — comes just one month after the announcement of Norway 's 14th licensing round , in which BPExploration was awarded operatorship of two licences and a stake in a third . |
| 2 | The Association was given premises in the San Jacinto Market and set about pressing for their other demands . |
| 3 | The current thinking was to turn ACE into an employer training scheme , but if those involved — both managers and employers — did not push training , ACE would fail in training . |
| 4 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 5 | Stock was changing hands for as little as 14½p before the company put out a statement saying it knew of no reason , ‘ other than the general economic climate ’ , for the fall . |
| 6 | A British journalist was taken prisoner in the train ambush but was released after five days . |
| 7 | Steele 's starting point was that slaves as much as all other men were subject to the law of human behaviour which said that conduct could be modified through the deployment of rewards and punishments ; the point of his experiment was to offer rewards to his slaves for defined tasks when in the past they had primarily experienced punishment . |
| 8 | One recommendation was to rotate sheep through paddocks , but since it involved the return of the sheep to their previously grazed paddocks in the same season , this was of little value . |
| 9 | Significantly , the text of the Law of Succession was made public on 31 March , the eve of " Victory Day " , the anniversary of the end of the Civil War . |
| 10 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 11 | The policy of the defendant was to fix rents for the houses as a whole at an aggregate sum necessary to balance the cost of the loan capital and repairs ; there was no differential applied whereby tenants paid rent according to their means . |
| 12 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 13 | The result was to create disaffection in the ranks and lead to accusations of police brutality from Amnesty International among others and to Garvey 's sacking . |
| 14 | Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq . |
| 15 | His only reaction at being accused of murder was to spit rice over the sergeant reading the charge . |
| 16 | But now 20 years old , the Club was experiencing changes of a sadder kind . |
| 17 | The aim of the PLANIT Club was to pull knowledge about the process planning , project planning and job-shop scheduling . |
| 18 | King George VI had lost the title of ‘ Emperor of India ’ when that continent was granted independence in August 1947 , but was delighted at the birth of a grandson , in 1948 , by Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip , and named Charles — destined to become Prince of Wales . |
| 19 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 20 | In an election on Feb. 14 , 1988 , Georgios Vassiliou was elected President in place of Spyros Kyprianou , and his new Cabinet took office on Feb. 29 [ see pp. 35849-50 ] . |
| 21 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 22 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 23 | One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation . |
| 24 | Bob Elphinston , general manager of the Sydney bid , said the Manchester bid was gaining support among the 91 International Olympic Committee members . |
| 25 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 26 | What he did not tell them was that European Equity Research was pushing shares in a little American advertising agency , " Pilgrim Venture " . |
| 27 | Cray Research was showing parts of its first massively parallel computer , the T3D , specifically the basic board , which will not be available until next year . |
| 28 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 29 | The aim of the present study was to analyse RFLPs for PGA and PGC , and to examine an association between peptic ulcer and the RFLPs . |
| 30 | The aim of the present study was to assess DGR with the sodium selective electrode in normal subjects , in patients with benign gastric ulcers , and in patients with persistent pain after gastric surgery . |