Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First production from Draugen — BPNorway 's most valuable asset — comes just one month after the announcement of Norway 's 14th licensing round , in which BPExploration was awarded operatorship of two licences and a stake in a third . |
| 2 | Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq . |
| 3 | But now 20 years old , the Club was experiencing changes of a sadder kind . |
| 4 | On Aug. 14 the US administration announced that the Defence Department was to take charge of a two-month US operation to airlift food into Somalia ( or into Kenya for onward distribution into Somalia and use in refugee camps ) . |
| 5 | Cray Research was showing parts of its first massively parallel computer , the T3D , specifically the basic board , which will not be available until next year . |
| 6 | The aim of this study was to determine amounts of platelet activating factor and metabolites ( lyso platelet activating factor and alyl-acyl-glycerophosphocholine ) . |
| 7 | As they reached the centre of the lion enclosure , a large cage on wheels was ahead of them , and a young woman with a pitchfork was shovelling carcasses of raw meat out through the bars while adult male lions , lionesses and their cubs crowded round . |
| 8 | For example , in all the community studies the intention was to obtain recordings of eight males and eight females , divided into two age groups ( 1825 ; 40–55 ) . |
| 9 | Cassirer was elected chairman of the Secession in 1912 and staged what probably was its most impressive exhibition in 1913 . |
| 10 | In mid-August clashes continued between the SNA and pro-Mahdi Mohammed forces in the Galgudud region , central Somalia , and other inter-clan fighting was reported south of Mogadishu . |
| 11 | The use of terms such as ‘ social evil ’ and the ‘ social diseases ’ suggests a widespread fear of the social implications of prostitution , and by the middle years of the century this fear was becoming part of a general social anxiety . |
| 12 | We were very alive to the fact that the Howie review was raising issues of integration and articulation that Further Education could n't afford to ignore . |
| 13 | Mary Law was appointed head of Humanities in September 1978 with the specific task of reorganizing that area of the curriculum . |
| 14 | Parallel work was undertaken south of the border , but tended to be overshadowed by the work of industry lead bodies involved in developing standards of occupational competence . |
| 15 | The Parents ' Action Committee was sent lists of letters the department claimed to have forwarded to the children , with each addressee mentioned by name . |
| 16 | The plan was to monitor communications of American organisations and individuals who in the eyes of the NSA wanted to foment civil disturbance or otherwise undermine the security of the United States . |
| 17 | In 1756 the Museum was compiling records of its acquisitions in bound ledgers called ‘ The Book of Presents ’ and in 1836 the then single Department of Antiquities began to complete bound Acquisition Registers of a type still in use today ( fig. 10.1 ) . |
| 18 | His first act was to seize possession of the Leonine City in Rome , which came under attack from rebellious Roman citizens based upon the Capitol . |
| 19 | If the Council was getting loads of growth in its budget it might not need to increase its charges . |
| 20 | In 1988 a High Court judge was given charge of the list . |
| 21 | The purpose of criminal libel was to prevent loss of confidence in Government . |
| 22 | That to the northeast has not been examined , but its southern counterpart was sectioned south of the junction and shown to be 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) wide with alternating bands of gravel , sand and cobbling . |
| 23 | He saw that WWF 's first requirement was to convince leaders of political , economic and social life that their own plans and ambitions could come to nothing if they were pursued without regard to those vital things on which all life depended . |
| 24 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 25 | Shaikh Nasir bin Hamad al-Rashid was appointed Chairman of the Board of Grievances , with Cabinet rank . |
| 26 | Madeley was named man of the match . |
| 27 | Klemkosky and Lee looked for a mispricing every ten minutes and found that , even for the arbitrageurs with the largest no-arbitrage band ( taxed institutional investors ) , the no-arbitrage band was violated 5% of the time . |
| 28 | Earlier this year , in the British Telecom Welsh Press Awards , the Daily Post was voted Newspaper of The Year . |
| 29 | Arnulf was elected bishop of Lisieux in 1141 . |
| 30 | Colette McAuley , senior social worker at Loughside Unit of Management , said the aim of the conference was to inform people of the changes that have taken place since the 1989 Children 's Act was introduced in Britain and to discuss the implications of the draft Children ( NI ) Order . |