Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] an [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick was formed as an ESRC Designated Research Centre ( DRC ) on 1st October 1984 . |
| 2 | Valeriu Pescaru , nominated as a Cabinet-rank Secretary of State responsible for the privatization of agriculture , was a member of the small Democratic Agrarian Party , which was regarded as an NSF satellite . |
| 3 | Although it was developed on an IBM mainframe , the same business requirements have been taken and the package is available on IBM 's AS/400 , on Unix and on ICL mainframes . |
| 4 | Geoff continued to progress last season in the 1st Division when , in company with Andy Gray , our midfield continually outplayed high-ranking opponents , so that the Palace reached the top three places before Christmas , and Geoff himself was honoured with an England B cap in an international in Algeria . |
| 5 | Their ‘ Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ was nominated for an Olivier Award . |
| 6 | Three days before Christmas , I was approached by an RUC inspector — a practising Christian — who felt the pain , the grief and the shame of the callous disregard for life which resulted in murder , maiming , brutality and hatred between the two main sections of the community . |
| 7 | After visiting Hamadan twice more on Cyprus ( to complete the softening up and the wiretap evidence ) , Younis was targeted for an FBI snatch on 13 September . |
| 8 | A by-election at La Caverne-Phoenix on June 11 , 1989 , was won by an MSM-MLP-backed candidate , who took the seat previously held by the opposition Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) . |
| 9 | The race was won by an Aston Martin DB4 and the Guisborough duo came sixth in the overall concours and fourth in their class of 1,000–1,300cc grand touring sports cars . |
| 10 | Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 . |
| 11 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 12 | To determine whether the visceral-specific exon was incorporated into an MHC molecule associated with either the SM1 or SM2 type MHC isoforms , a cDNA library was screened to isolate cDNA clones encoding the visceral isoform . |
| 13 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 14 | A POLICEMAN who was stabbed in an Ayrshire town while investigating a routine offence was last night recovering in hospital . |
| 15 | Obliged to resign in 1974 when his aide Günther Guillaume was revealed as an East German spy , Brandt later headed what became known as the Brandt Commission on development issues , and from 1976 until September 1992 was president of the Socialist International [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 16 | On Saturday another policeman , PC Ray Hall , was going about his normal duties when he was shot by an IRA gunman . |
| 17 | A WOMAN holidaymaker was shot by an IRA gunman in Belfast last night to bring the grim death toll in the Ulster troubles to 2,999 . |
| 18 | A man was airlifted from an Isle of Man ferry to hospital after suffering a heart attack . |
| 19 | The first Star printer I owned was a 80-column thermal machine that was connected to an Osborne 01 CP/M machine . |
| 20 | An appeal against the decision of the County Council was lodged with An Bord Pleanala , and the hearing was set for June . |
| 21 | Murdoch Macleod was born in Edinburgh and educated at Donaldson 's Hospital after which he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh tailoring firm , but this existence did not meet with his taste for adventure , so at the age of 19 he embarked on a steamer from Southampton to South Africa in 1892 . |
| 22 | The court was told by an RUC detective constable that when arrested charged and cautioned Wilson replied to each charge : ‘ I know nothing about it . ’ |
| 23 | BALB/c spleen RNA was used as an Ea positive control , its expression level being equivalent to two intact copies of the Ea gene . |
| 24 | This boat was used in an Indiana Jones film and still bears the scars . |
| 25 | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was performed with an Olympus TJF duodenoscope and all examinations were done by one investigator ( JRBG ) . |
| 26 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |
| 27 | Mr. H. C. Shearman , M.A. , the Tutor-Organiser , for rural work , was born in an Oxfordshire village and attended the village school at Sulgrave . |
| 28 | Yesterday The Northern was contacted by an ET trainee living in Darlington who has been carrying out his own survey of trainees ' attitudes . |
| 29 | Light was detected by an EMI 9813B photomultiplier in an EMI FACT 50 MK III cooler , cooled to -20°C and operated at 1375 volts . |
| 30 | Also any information on a Handley Page Hampden which force-landed on Achnahaird sands and was recovered by an RAF unit by road . |