Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well-known Austrian designer Raoul Hafner was lured to Britain to a privately-financed venture by Jack Coates , of the well-known cotton manufacturing company , to produce autogyros . |
| 2 | As a result of the outbreak of war , and being an Austrian national , Raoul Hafner was interned on the Isle of Man . |
| 3 | The value and the duration of the OEM contract was not disclosed . |
| 4 | Kang Bo Seong was replaced as Minister of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries by Cho Kyung Shik , formerly the Director of the Environment Agency . |
| 5 | The faculty of divinity at Durham had as Ramsey 's predecessor Oliver Quick , who with William Temple was a leading mind in the Church of England . |
| 6 | In 1788 La Scala was opened . |
| 7 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 8 | On the evening of 11 May 1946 La Scala was officially reopened with a performance of La Gazza Ladra , conducted by Arturo Toscanini who travelled from the United States specially . |
| 9 | But then to do it well , so that it all sounds extremely natural — so that it flows and sounds effortless — that requires a long preparation , which everyone at La Scala was happy to give it . |
| 10 | ‘ THERE ‘ e goes again ! ’ muttered the Old Stager , as the Computer Programmer was caught in the slips for 32 in our last match of the season . |
| 11 | The Snogogram building was n't really a building , it was a converted railway arch . |
| 12 | At Springhill open prison near Aylesbury , Murray Stewart was just another inmate . |
| 13 | Murray Stewart was jailed in the summer for attempting a £40m computer fraud . |
| 14 | Murray Stewart was tracked to a house in a London suburb where a man and wife were arrested on suspicion of hiding him . |
| 15 | Our results confirmed that the distribution of labelled cells in FAP cases was exactly the same as that in SCRC cases : the proliferative compartment was located in the lower two thirds of the crypts and no abnormality of cell kinetics was seen in either FAP or SCRC cases . |
| 16 | The defence story was emphasised that she |
| 17 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 18 | A NEW hi-tech window sealant from Courtaulds Aerospace Commercial Products Division was launched simultaneously in the UK and US in February . |
| 19 | Monday brought another very sparse attendance , though the noise level was punishing , thanks to the non-stop chanting of the Pakistan supporters by the scoreboard . |
| 20 | Noise level was about average for an electric machine , certainly quieter than petrol-driven models . |
| 21 | By the time the French approached Moscow , General Kutuzov was ready to stand his ground . |
| 22 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 23 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 24 | And for the most part Nizan was optimistic about the outcome . |
| 25 | Former tax avoidance consultant Godfrey Bradman was one of a handful of property developers who reshaped London in the '80s . |
| 26 | During the 1980s the level of income tax for high income groups was reduced substantially . |
| 27 | If the lowering of serum cholesterol values was the result of tumour activity , obvious differences in serum cholesterol values as the tumours progressed from stage A to stage D , or as they become more de-differentiated would have been expected . |
| 28 | Allan Stewart was starting to clear away the mess of jugs and pots with a deliberate clatter . |
| 29 | Allan Stewart was appalled . |
| 30 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |