Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] be [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midfielder Andy Peake is recalled and central defender Jon Gittens will be on the bench after being Cup-tied . |
| 2 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 3 | David Davies is seen as ineffectual , Andrew McKay lightweight , Robert Hughes a learner and the witty James Arbuthnott as largely untested . |
| 4 | Gen. Hau was appointed as Premier in May 1990 and reshuffled the Cabinet ( Executive Yuan ) [ see pp. 37454-55 ] . |
| 5 | In the same reshuffle Alan Lennox-Boyd was replaced as Colonial Secretary by Iain MacLeod , a far-sighted minister with confidence in his own convictions . |
| 6 | Gavin Lees was attacked and left unconscious by a railway footbridge . |
| 7 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 8 | Vo Van Kiet was re-elected as Prime Minister and Nguyen Thi Binh was elected as Vice-President . |
| 9 | The Federated States of Micronesia ( FSM ) and the Marshall Islands were elected as new members of the UN on Sept. 17 at the opening of the 46th session of the General Assembly [ see also p. 38458 ] . |
| 10 | Mr Ashworth is described as slim with short dark straight hair , a moustache and red and blue flower tattoos on both arms . |
| 11 | How can Darby O'Gill be dismissed as superstitious nonsense when it is part descriptive of a society where even now devotional queues are forming to watch supposedly moving statues . |
| 12 | Several supporters of President Aristide were arrested and beaten , including Port-au-Prince Mayor Evans Paul , the administrator of a day care centre , a businessman and a well-known singer . |
| 13 | THE American soldiers at the roadblock in La Boca were exhausted and perplexed . |
| 14 | Following his victory in the Oct. 11 parliamentary elections , Georgian State Council chair Eduard Shevardnadze was confirmed as parliamentary chairman and head of state by the new Georgian parliament , meeting on Nov. 6 . |
| 15 | Old nursery stories like Mrs Goat And Her Seven Little Kids and Little Red Riding Hood are updated and sharpened and are read by Sir Michael Hordern at his most misanthropic , his growliest and his most comical . |
| 16 | The 5.40 train service Bishop 's Castle to Craven Arms was resumed as usual . |
| 17 | Denmark , West Germany and — ‘ as a borderline case ’ — the United Kingdom are ranked as medium corporatist and France is ranked as weak ( despite the existence of an institutional framework for ‘ neo-corporatist co-operation ’ ) . |
| 18 | In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition . |
| 19 | Mohammed Ali Samater was reappointed as Prime Minister on Jan. 21 , Barre allowed him the responsibility of choosing his own ministerial team ; no immediate announcements were made about who was to be chosen . |
| 20 | 23 year old Anna McGurk was raped and strangled as she walked home from Gloucester City Council . |
| 21 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 22 | Edinburgh also obtained Pietro da Cortona 's finished and squared study for ‘ St Ivo intervening on behalf of the poor ’ for the altarpiece of the Roman church of S. Ivo della Sapienza ( £72,637 , est. £15–20,000 ; NACF , NHMF support ) ; this drawing had been bought by the Metropolitan Museum , New York as a leaving memorial for the drawings expert Jacob Bean , but was export-stopped . |
| 23 | Striker Don Goodman is rated as doubtful with a recurring groin injury , and if he has to stand down again Hawke is likely to come in for his first game of the season probably as a partner for ex-England and Boro man Peter Davenport . |
| 24 | Georges Hawi was re-elected as general secretary , with Faruq Dahruj as his deputy . |
| 25 | Fibre-rich diets such as the F-Plan Diet are rated as acceptable , while very low-calorie diets , such as the Cambridge diet , should only be used under medical supervision . |
| 26 | STEVE CAUTHEN was beaten but unbowed as he left yesterday 's Jockey Club hearing with a ten-day suspension . |
| 27 | A report in The Northern Echo on Wednesday said that 438 pigs in the Wear Valley were condemned as unfit for human consumption in November and December . |
| 28 | Khamphoui Keoboualapha was appointed as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Planning and Finance , a post which had been vacant since the death of Sali Vongkhamsao in January 1991 [ see p. 37963 ] . |
| 29 | As expected , Zviad Gamsakhurdia was re-elected as executive President of Georgia on May 26 in the republic 's first ever direct presidential election . |
| 30 | Lord Derby was followed as Prime Minister by the Earl of Aberdeen in December 1852 , and in October 1853 , Turkey declared war on Russia . |