Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Frizzell had been feeling that victory in this verbal exchange was hers and had been preparing to leave the garden . |
| 2 | A few days earlier Ouedraogo had been dismissed as secretary-general of the Organization for People 's Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP — MT ) , the dominant grouping within the Front , reportedly for having displayed " serious failures of principle and party policy " . |
| 3 | Frank Bruno 's proposed showdown with Lennox Lewis has been postponed because TV companies have spent their summer budgets on the European football championships , Wimbledon , Test Matches and the Olympics . |
| 4 | Twickenham re-visited was guaranteed when scrum half Stuart cassidy broke through for Gary Linieres to score . |
| 5 | De Mita had been replaced as party secretary-general by Arnaldo Forlani in February 1989 [ see p. 36472 ] and had resigned as Prime Minister on May 19 [ see p. 36667 ] . |
| 6 | While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles . |
| 7 | Harry Arnold had been appointed as chairman , and those present included Samuel Howard Whitbread and J. Arnold Whitchurch . |
| 8 | Haider had been dismissed as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 for praising the Nazis ' employment policies [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 9 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 10 | Solbourne Computer Inc founder Doug MacGregor has been bounced as president and chief executive officer of the Sparc-compatible company he created , and is replaced by his vice president of international operations , Carl Herrmann . |
| 11 | Furthermore , concessions granted to the Cuban Telephone Company by Batista had been cancelled and consumer charges drastically reduced shortly before Castro left Havana for the United States . |
| 12 | In December 1991 Salonga had been ousted as president of the Senate , and had been replaced by Nepatali Gonzales , a member of the LDP . |
| 13 | Legislation to set up an umbrella agency to control pollution in England and Wales has been postponed because government ministries disagree over the scope and scale of the new body . |
| 14 | ( An earlier change had been made on April 25 when Kwon Hwi Hyuk had been appointed as Director of the Environment Agency after his predecessor Huh Nam Hoon was dismissed in response to the contamination of the water supply in Taegu through the dumping of 300 tonnes of phenol , a caustic chemical compound . ) |
| 15 | Built in many variants , a total of 16,769 Yak–9s had been produced when production ceased in late August 1945 and a typical example is preserved in the Museum . |