Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in 1988 these units began to be joined north of the Thames by similar ( but AC current only ) units of Class 321 for use on Cambridge and Northampton services for which sixty-eight units were authorised , together with a further five similar Class 322 units for the Stansted Airport link . |
| 2 | The three were closely linked and led to two important conclusions : part of the Strategic Reserve would have to be positioned East of Suez ; and there would have to be some stocking of heavy equipment and supplies , and the establishment of essential repair facilities , on the far side of the Arab air/sea barrier . |
| 3 | Behind them is David Mellor , soon to be appointed Minister for Fun — and later to be dubbed Figure of Fun for his fling with actress Antonia de Sancha . |
| 4 | They were to be renamed Colleges of Education ; a new degree , to be called Bachelor of Education and validated by the universities , would be introduced for their more able students ; they should be removed from the public sector and closely linked with the universities ; and some of them should become universities in their own right . |
| 5 | The name of an existing LIFESPAN user to be assigned ownership of the Charge Code , up to 28 alphanumeric characters long , including spaces . |
| 6 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 7 | It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm . |
| 8 | If reclaimed land is to be made part of a living landscape it is not enough simply to plant vegetation on it . |
| 9 | Israel , however , pressed for Resolution 425 to be made part of a peace treaty , a proposal rejected by Lebanon . |
| 10 | Today 's crash has led to renewed calls from instructors for motorway skills to be made part of the driving test . |
| 11 | Devotion to the throne also manifested itself in a popular demand for the king 's third son , William Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , to be made Commander-in-Chief of the anti-invasion forces . |
| 12 | Richard was the youngest man ever to be made Head of so large a school . |
| 13 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 14 | It was a great honour to be made captain of the side and now all this . ’ |
| 15 | He said he had heard a rumour that Margaret Thatcher was going to be made Governor of Gibraltar , ‘ but I 'll believe that when it happens . ’ |
| 16 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 17 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 18 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy was , at 43 , the youngest man ever to be elected President of the USA . |
| 19 | It was possible , however , for a member of the House of Orange ( the descendants of William the Silent , the leader of the struggle for independence against Spain in the later sixteenth century ) to be elected Stadtholder of all or most of the provinces and thus attain the position of General Stadtholder of the federation . |
| 20 | Ties to be played weekend of Saturday December 5 . |
| 21 | The only sandgrouse likely to be seen north of the Mediterranean region , and then only when one of its now very infrequent irruptions ( none on a large scale since 1908 ) from Central Asia occurs . |
| 22 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |
| 23 | Cregeen died on Good Friday , 9 April 1841 , and was buried 13 April in Arbory churchyard , where his elegant box-tomb is still to be seen south-east of the church . |
| 24 | Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave . |
| 25 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 26 | In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy . |
| 27 | He remains the only deaf person in Britain ever to be appointed headmaster of a deaf school by a local education authority . |
| 28 | Sir Francis Walsingham , Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth , though himself a Puritan , was so impressed with Andrewes ' abilities , which he considered would be wasted in a country parish , that he caused him to be appointed Vicar of St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London , and at the same time prebend of St Paul 's Cathedral and chaplain both to the Queen and to the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 29 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |
| 30 | Rev Stan McKay is the first Native Canadian to be appointed Moderator of The United Church of Canada . |