Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the County Ground this morning John Gorman took over the crown as Swindon Town manager … down in London at Stamford Bridge Glenn Hoddle … the man whod abdicated was taking charge of his new kingdom Chelsea … |
| 2 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 4 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 5 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 6 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 7 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 8 | Cenwulf 's brother Cuthred was made sub-king of Kent no later than 801 , and they granted land there jointly and individually until Cuthred 's death ( 807 ) . |
| 9 | But she liked being taken care of , without being smothered . |
| 10 | What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann 's models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe . |
| 11 | Since 1955 at Harwell construction had been taking place of ZETA — a 3 metre diameter doughnut shaped vacuum chamber containing deuterium plasma . |
| 12 | For many months a nurse had been taking care of Mary , described by everyone as a gentle , retiring person . |
| 13 | It was disclosed on Jan. 19 , 1989 , that FBI agents posing as commodity traders for nearly two years had been accumulating evidence of widespread fraud on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . |
| 14 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 15 | Mr Garrod , who had been appointed head of geography at a Chesterfield school , was rushed to hospital by a passing motorist but never regained consciousness . |
| 16 | Before the war he had been stationed in Holland , during the war he had served with MI6 in Turkey and , in mid-1944 , had been appointed head of MI6 's operations in Berne , in Switzerland . |
| 17 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 18 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 19 | Ye had been appointed Vice-Chair of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference ( the government 's largely ceremonial opinion-gathering forum ) in April [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 20 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , it was reported that Raja Ramanna , a former chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission , had been appointed Minister of State for Defence . |
| 21 | He was a member of the PLA who had been appointed Minister of the Foodstuff Industry as part of political liberalization measures in July 1990 [ see p. 37618 ] . |
| 22 | Yameogo had been appointed Minister of Agriculture in July 1991 , but had resigned from the government in August [ see p. 38424 ] . |
| 23 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 24 | On March 20 , 1989 , Thanga Velly Rajeshwar ( Governor of Sikkim since 1985 — see p. 34680 ) was sworn in as Governor of West Bengal , replacing S. Nural Hassan who had been appointed Governor of Orissa in November 1988 [ see p. 36694 ] . |
| 25 | Radio Pakistan announced on July 12 that Sardar Gul Mohammad Khan Jogezai had been appointed Governor of Baluchistan . |
| 26 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 27 | By 1863 , the date of the publication of The Water Babies , he had been appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge . |
| 28 | From 1915 to 1918 he served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and by the time he was released he had been appointed professor of Celtic ( a title later changed to Welsh ) at Cardiff , a post he held until his retirement in 1946 . |
| 29 | Sir John Franklin , who had been dubbed the ‘ Polar Knight ’ for his valiant exploration of the Arctic , had been appointed lieutenant-governor of Van Dieman 's Land the previous year . |
| 30 | Most recently he had been appointed director of the Centre for International Studies by Zhao Ziyang , where he advised on foreign affairs . |