Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle-income countries such as India and the Philippines were allowed to draw from a special subsidy account offering loans at nominal interest rates of 0.5 per cent , while hard-hit , low-income countries such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan were offered assistance from the existing compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) . |
| 2 | One of the earliest was the Reverend Edward Duke who , in the 1840s , found that several prehistoric sites , including Avebury , Silbury Hill and Stonehenge were aligned north-south with each other . |
| 3 | Training following appointment is also evidently not universal , for Goacher et al ( 1988 ) recorded that only 28 per cent of LEAs were offering training to their assistants in order to implement the 1981 Education Act . |
| 4 | Mitchum , Ford and Lila were given bail at a thousand dollars each and a hearing was scheduled for the following week . |
| 5 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 6 | In a reshuffle on June 14 ( i ) Aguinaldo Jaime replaced Augusto Teixeira de Matos as Minister of Finance ; ( ii ) Boavista da Silva Cardoso was appointed to the new portfolio of Information ; and ( iii ) José de Franca Dias Van Dúnem was appointed Minister of Planning in place of António Henriques da Silva . |
| 7 | Mr Spencer was persuaded north as the press 's secretary , and dramatically expanded its output from some 20 academic titles a year to around 90 , an expansion achieved with an increase of only the Polygon staff to EUP 's 14 indefatigable full-time staff members . |
| 8 | Pillai was appointed CBE in 1937 , CIE in 1939 and KCIE in 1946 ; he was elected an honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall in 1970 . |
| 9 | In 1952 Pillai was appointed Secretary-General of the Ministry of External Affairs , or Permanent Under-Secretary . |
| 10 | Later that month , the former Rangers and Scotland forward Andy Cunningham was appointed manager of Newcastle and although he had played alongside Gallacher in the Scotland team a few years before , there was no great bond between the two . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Abd al-Basit Sabdrat was appointed Minister of Education and Abdullah Muhammed Ahmed , his predecessor , became Minister of Culture and Information . |
| 12 | George Stephenson was appointed engineer to the Stockport and Darlington Railway which opened in 1825 , as a line to transport coal only , but the idea soon spread and , in 1826 , the Menai Suspension Bridge was opened , linking Anglesey to the mainland . |
| 13 | Making his 17th successive appearance since replacing Henry Smith in December , Walker was voted man of the match , which was mainly thanks to a fingertip save from a Michael O'Neill shot in the first half and a crucial stop which denied Paddy Connolly with only ten minutes remaining . |
| 14 | There is a possibility , therefore , that Ealhfrith lost his life in a rebellion against his father while Wilfrid was receiving consecration in Gaul . |
| 15 | There were complaints from Lazenby that Diana Rigg was eating garlic before their big love scene . |
| 16 | Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] . |
| 17 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 18 | Gorbachev was elected President of the USSR by a secret ballot of Congress deputies on the evening of March 14 , the result being announced on the following morning . |
| 19 | Frantisek Pavlicek was appointed head of Czechoslovak radio on Feb. 2 , Petr Uhl head of CTK on Feb. 14 , and Jiri Kanturek head of Czechoslovak television on March 12 . |
| 20 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 21 | Ali Hassan Diria was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs , exchanging portfolios with Benjamin Mkapa , who thus moved to Information and Broadcasting . |
| 22 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 23 | Gen. Shaposhnikov was appointed Minister of Defence , replacing Gen. Moiseyev , whose former position as Chief of General Staff went to Gen. Vladimir Lobov , a known reformer ; Grachev was made Deputy Defence Minister . |
| 24 | On his release in 1977 Shekhar was appointed president of the newly created Janata Party . |
| 25 | Surjit Singh Barnala was appointed governor of Tamil Nadu in May 1990 [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 26 | In 1624 Scott was elected MP for Canterbury in a fierce campaign inflamed by anti-Catholicism . |
| 27 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 28 | There were no other candidates and Scott was appointed director in January 1867 . |
| 29 | When , in March 1936 , Mola was appointed commander of the garrison at Pamplona , capital of the Carlist stronghold of Navarre , he established close contacts with the local Carlist leadership in the hope of enlisting the Requeté in the projected rising . |
| 30 | This would help to protect the dollar at a time when the United States was experiencing balance of payments problems . |