Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenszky said on Oct. 11 that around 50,000 foreigners were illegally resident in Hungary or were engaged in black market activities . |
| 2 | The RC was ostensibly less nazi than the NL and was aimed at infiltrating and influencing the establishment to further Ramsay 's campaign to lessen the alleged Jewish influence on the Conservative party . |
| 3 | A special freephone advice line was opened up last Tuesday and was swamped by hundreds of callers . |
| 4 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 5 | Nakasone declared himself " purified " by his re-election , although the faction which he had founded in 1965 lost more heavily than any other within the LDP and was reduced in relative importance from second place to fourth , behind those led by Takeshita , Miyazawa and Abe . |
| 6 | ‘ I left the States and was travelling in Italy when I met a photographer . |
| 7 | It was about 13 miles from Hotel Vancouver and was reached by driving through Stanley Park , across the Lions ' Gate Bridge , then turning left through West Vancouver to the end of Marine Drive . |
| 8 | It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker . |
| 9 | I went to Southport and was waiting at the hotel for Lee when I saw him roll up . |
| 10 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 11 | He was on leave from his doctoral programme in Taiwan and was funded by the Washington-based Committee on Scholarly Exchange with the People 's Republic of China . |
| 12 | He was already jealous of the easy friendship between the sailor and Wirth-Miller and was wounded by the remark that what Denis could have free he would have to pay for . |
| 13 | The exception was the print collection , which was requisitioned by Hitler for his proposed museum at Linz and was removed to Dresden . |
| 14 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 15 | He died 25 May 1868 at Twelveheads and was buried in Baldhu . |
| 16 | He died in Parke and was buried in Prendergast cemetery . |
| 17 | The de la Porte family owned several properties in Picardy and were related by marriage to the noblest and richest families in the area . |
| 18 | The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend . |
| 19 | Voting in the elections started in mid-May but was postponed after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by Tamil separatists while addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu [ see p. 38175 ] . |
| 20 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 21 | David Cornish , a ship 's stoker , was among the members of his ship 's crew captured by the German raider Manyo Maru and was kept in the raider 's hold for five weeks on black bread , ersatz coffee , fat , margarine and jam while the raider roamed the seas attacking fresh victims in the Indian Ocean . |
| 22 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 23 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 30 September : The Princess Royal this morning visited Hampshire and was received on arrival by the Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire ( Captain MPR Boyle ) . |
| 24 | 1 October : The Princess Royal , Patron , Royal Lymington Yacht Club , this morning attended the X One-Design Class Division Invitation Race at Lymington , Hampshire and was received on arrival by the Vice-Commodore ( Mr John Guillaume ) . |
| 25 | 10 October : The Princess Royal this morning visited Hampshire and was received on arrival by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Hampshire ( Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Scott Bt ) . |
| 26 | It had been found in the Pope Street area of Bootle and was submitted to the lost property section at Bootle police station . |
| 27 | This heterogeneous group , initially totalling over 30,000 and loosely under the command of a German colonel , von Seeler , surrendered to 5 Corps on 12 May and was concentrated in a large open encampment at Viktring , south-west of Klagenfurt . |
| 28 | Soviet troop withdrawals began on 15 May and were completed on schedule on 15 February 1989 ; Shevardnadze , addressing the Supreme Soviet the following October , described the original decision to intervene as a violation of ‘ general human values ’ and of party and state procedures . |
| 29 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 30 | In 1861 Howell returned to England and was replaced by two recruits from Edinburgh . |