Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray Stewart was jailed in the summer for attempting a £40m computer fraud . |
| 2 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 3 | ESSEX police dog handler Pc Colin Elsegood was punched in the face during a confrontation with another motorist , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 4 | The body of thirty nine year old father of three Bernard Dean was found in a gymnasium at Horfield Prison in Bristol . |
| 5 | The violin-leader La Houssaye was admired in 1777 as a premier violon mostly worthy to direct ( conduire ) his orchestra in a concert . |
| 6 | His mother died when William was six years old and he and his only sister Frances were placed in the care of their aunt , Lady Frances Stourton , while their father attended to the boy 's education . |
| 7 | When I was seven , my sister Maria was drowned in it . ’ |
| 8 | The Jesuit College of the Malá Strana was founded in 1628 , under the patronage of Albrecht Wallenstein . |
| 9 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 10 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright was hit in the face by a coin thrown from the crowd during the 1-1 Coca-Cola Cup draw against Millwall at Highbury . |
| 11 | As Benazir Bhutto was sworn in the news came in that her choice for speaker had been elected in Punjab . |
| 12 | Ania Bien was born in Poland in 1946 and lives and works in Amsterdam . |
| 13 | William Hinton was born in Naples in 1817 , the son of a Wiltshire landowner . |
| 14 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 15 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 16 | They were married in 1949 ; Marc Bischof was born in 1950 , Daniel in 1954 , nine days after his father 's death . |
| 17 | Thomas Cranmer and Aleister Crowley were held in uneasy balance in his sympathies . |
| 18 | Further to the west the Ingleton Parish Register for the period records after many burials that the dead were " buried in wool according to the act " and in Swaledale itself , when Ann Baker was buried in 1692 at Grinton Church , her father , Adam , a lead-miner from Oldgang , was fined five pounds for not burying his daughter in wool . |
| 19 | Only three Nez Perce were wounded in the encounter , and Joseph accurately recalled : |
| 20 | When the report of Miles ' Hotchkiss gun heralded morning , the Nez Perce were entrenched in a remarkable network of tunnels . |
| 21 | Not till 18 October 1144 could Ste Barbe be enthroned in Durham by Fitzherbert , after gradually winning over Earl Henry and the local lay feudatories ; it had been a savage struggle , though lurid partisan denunciations of Cumin 's atrocities are probably exaggerated . |
| 22 | In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption . |
| 23 | Dr Neil Cochrane was engaged in one of the worst tasks a doctor had to face : attempting to save the life of a young girl and the child she was trying to bear , after earlier neglect and mismanagement from the moment the birth had begun . |
| 24 | Shaven headed Richard Yates was remanded in custody for 3 weeks . |
| 25 | Relations between the two countries were criticized by Iranian hardliners , however , with former Interior Minister Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi being quoted in a report in Le Monde of June 7 as expressing strong opposition to the Saudi regime . |
| 26 | Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off . |
| 27 | In these respects Frith/Moll is represented in the tradition of the warrior woman and the folk figure of Long Meg of Westminster , both of whom distinguish true morality from false , the proper man from the braggart , and finally submit to the former ( Shepherd , Amazons , esp . |
| 28 | Funny thing is , Madge Allsop is covered in stretch marks and she 's never had a kiddie . |
| 29 | Ritwik Ghatak was born in 1925 in Dacca , East Bengal , the capital of present day Bangladesh . |
| 30 | The fact that Gen. Jorge Zegarra was confirmed in his post as Army Chief of Staff , together with the appointment of Alvarado , an Army general , as Interior Minister , led to speculation that Fujimori intended to bolster his political position through an alliance with the Army . |