Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As Assistant Adjutant , he was given tasks of little consequence , mostly dull book work concerned with parade states and the number of sick reported from the companies . |
| 3 | A bicameral parliament at Stormont near Belfast was given control of domestic policy on matters that did not affect other parts of the United kingdom . |
| 4 | They were jostled and pushed , and all the while she was catching glimpses of stunning costumes . |
| 5 | I remember Witney 's skilful insertion of some kind of crossbow bolt ; me I was wedging shards of brown glass into the other boy 's crown . |
| 6 | ‘ The aim was to increase knowledge of foreign countries among Americans and increase friendships . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Feb. 6 , 1991 , reported that the government was to increase exports of natural gas by a further 200,000 million cubic metres over the next 20 years . |
| 8 | He was named Minister of Public Works in 1969 and Minister of Education in 1980 . |
| 9 | In further changes , Joao Cruz Pinto took over the Justice portfolio from Vasco Cabral who was appointed in March [ see p. 38085 ] ; the Defence portfolio , formerly held by Vieira , was assumed by Samba Lamine Mane , while Manuel dos Santos was named Minister of Natural Resources and Industry to replace Filinto de Barros who became Finance Minister . |
| 10 | She was appointed to a Readership in 1969 , and was made Professor of Developmental Psychology in 1980 . |
| 11 | One of the purposes was to identify examples of effective resource allocation with a view to establishing a training programme that would enable others to gain similar skills . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What Dr Tolley was advocating was withdrawing membership of professional bodies from people who did not keep abreast . |
| 14 | And that 's where I used to work in but that 's the reason I left , because I thought actually some of them was getting kind of uppish . |
| 15 | I was getting megawatts of sexual response from you , but nothing emotional , nothing — Radcliffe got it all . |
| 16 | By 1977 , Sudan had a severe foreign exchange crisis , and by the beginning of 1978 was experiencing shortages of imported goods . |
| 17 | In order to give meaning to this sentence one would have to imagine a situation such as the following : someone was sorting pins of different sizes on a table ; without him seeing it , the smallest of these pins fell off the table and was heard to hit the floor by those present in the room . |
| 18 | In 1976 , US intelligence discovered that the rent-a-colonel was buying recordings of taped conversations from Military Intelligence . |
| 19 | A week ago SGS-Thomson said it was starting production of 1M-bit Flash memories and would be fabricating samples with higher capacities . |
| 20 | The purpose of the seminar was to consider problems of agricultural structure and education which have led to economic stagnation and decline in many of Europe 's marginal areas . |
| 21 | She was having dreams of unabashed sexuality . |
| 22 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 23 | The news that Brian Horton was taking charge of premier league club Manchester City surprised everyone including the man in the middle of it all |
| 24 | The news that Brian Horton was taking charge of premier league club Manchester City surprised everyone including the man in the middle of it all |
| 25 | The Russian government announced on Nov. 15 that it was taking control of Soviet oil-export licences from Dec. 1 . |
| 26 | It is true that among intellectuals , influenced by the cosmopolitanism of the Enlightenment , there was a fairly general feeling that war was unworthy of an age in which reason was taking control of human affairs . |
| 27 | Choyjamtsyn Badamhaamb was appointed Minister of Labour in the newly created ministry in August [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 28 | An opposition imam who was regarded as sympathetic to the FIS , Sassi Lamouri , was appointed Minister of Religious Affairs , replacing Mohammed Benredouane . |
| 29 | In an earlier reshuffle on July 3 Onesin Cvitan was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs and Sime Djodan Minister of Defence , while Martin Spegelj became commander of the National Guard . |
| 30 | Kenneth McNeil , Minister without Portfolio , was appointed Minister of Public Service on May 1 to oversee reforms in the civil service . |