Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erdenijn Bat-Uul was elected as general secretary of a 15-member political consultative committee , with Dambijn Dorligshaw as his deputy and Achmedijn Murat becoming committee secretary . |
| 2 | Mehetabel Wright was instructed by her father Samuel Wesley and is said to have understood Greek by the age of eight . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | Consequently , oligonucleotides in which contacting Gs were mutated ( mutant oligos I and III in Fig. 4A ) were synthesized and used for band-shifting experiments . |
| 5 | Malkit Singh was voted most popular international male artist . |
| 6 | The most recent scare story concerning Nirvana involves Courtney being admitted to hospital in Bilbao — Nirvana 's final port of call before heading back to the US — having damaged her womb . |
| 7 | The dogs who attacked Becky were destroyed the same day . |
| 8 | Petrit Serjani was elected Attorney General . |
| 9 | After all , if peace with Russia were now possible , why need Germany be rearmed ? |
| 10 | Latest word has NCR being given time to re-position its OLTP strategy for interoperability and compatibility before a statement is released . |
| 11 | ‘ By lambasting Kelly 's , people are attacking the symptoms not the root cause of the problem , ’ a spokesperson for the public relations company representing Kelly 's told Sunday Life . |
| 12 | Teleport TP was formed in February 1992 as a joint stock company by the Russian-Italian joint venture enterprise Technopark in Moscow , and the Intertelecom company , a state-owned organisation responsible for the operation of international communications in Russia . |
| 13 | ‘ Has Sarah been told ? ’ |
| 14 | Highly purified DNA-PK was used in the standard kinase assay with the following substrates ; Bacterially-expressed Jun-Core ( lanes 1 and 2 ) , Sp1 ( lanes 3 and 4 : ref. 4 ) and Fos-Core ( lanes 5 and 6 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Claudia , I did n't know Dana was committed to you . ’ |
| 16 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 17 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 18 | Some say Darrel was tried and acquitted , others that he was granted a nolle prosequi through lack of evidence . |
| 19 | Only recently has Louis been reappraised as an effective ruler in his own right . |
| 20 | Prue Stopford was fed up . |
| 21 | But experts who monitored Vincent are baffled why he never needs much kip . |
| 22 | Shell UK was ordered on Feb. 23 , 1990 to pay a fine of £1,000,000 for polluting the Mersey river estuary on Aug. 19 , 1989 , when 156 tonnes of crude oil had escaped through a fractured underground pipeline causing a 10-mile oil slick which killed up to 300 seabirds and affected some 2,000 others . |
| 23 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 24 | I expect Oliver 's given you the impression that I was a virgin when I got married . |
| 25 | ANDERS LIMPAR was warned last night that his international career is in jeopardy if he keeps missing out on matches with Arsenal . |
| 26 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 27 | Whenever we reached coral or shoal waters Thessy was forced to spend hours perched at the foremast 's |
| 28 | Keatlemang Morake was named as Minister of Agriculture . |
| 29 | ‘ How do you know Mike was involved ? |
| 30 | ‘ You say Springall was murdered by someone else , not Brampton ? ’ he asked abruptly . |