Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun prp] [be] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sarup Singh was appointed Governor of Kerala on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Ram Dulari Sinha who had been appointed to the post in February 1988 [ see p. 36028 ] .
2 Petrit Serjani was elected Attorney General .
3 Piet Marais was appointed Minister of Manpower and retained the Ministry of Education and Culture .
4 // John was appointed Chairman //
5 // John was appointed Chairman //
6 // John was appointed Chairman //
7 Janusz Ziolkowski was appointed head of the Presidential Chancellery , and Jerzy Milewski was appointed Minister of State and also as Secretary of the Committee for National Defence , replacing Maciej Zalewski .
8 Raúl Torres was appointed Agriculture Minister and , most controversially , Angel Roberto Seifart Education minister ; opposition politicians accused Seifart , an active right-wing member of the Colorado Party leadership , of having the same authoritarian leanings as his predecessor Dionisio González Torres .
9 Habib Bourguiba was declared President-for-Life by the National Assembly in 1985 , but was removed in November 1987 after being declared unfit for office on grounds of ill-health and senility .
10 Truong Chinh was appointed Secretary-General .
11 Mahmood Ali was appointed Governor of Madhya Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Sarla Grewal , who had been sworn in in March 1989 [ see p. 36695 ] .
12 Enver Halile was appointed Minister of Justice on May 8 .
13 Alush Dragoshi was appointed Attorney General on Dec. 7 [ see p. 39103 for his predecessor 's dismissal ] .
14 Frantisek Pavlicek was appointed head of Czechoslovak radio on Feb. 2 , Petr Uhl head of CTK on Feb. 14 , and Jiri Kanturek head of Czechoslovak television on March 12 .
15 Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post .
16 Snooker Higgins is docked £3,000 .
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