Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Busby was sacked by Sunderland when Malcolm Crosby was promoted to first-team coach last December . |
| 2 | Spencer was staring with obvious delight at the young girl standing before him . |
| 3 | On 28 January 1919 , Mr. Spencer was promoted to General Manager , Tramways . |
| 4 | From the early days Kylie was plagued by obscene phone calls and hate mail . |
| 5 | Halil Guzel was taken into overnight custody by the regular police at Istanbul airport when he landed on Thursday . |
| 6 | And now she knew that those responsible were Shi'ite terrorists from Iran , while Philippe Chaumont was held by Shi'ite terrorists in Lebanon . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , normal service returned to the tournament as Britain 's twin triumph of Tuesday was followed by double defeat for the two home players in action . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , normal service returned to the tournament as Britain 's twin triumph of Tuesday was followed by double defeat for the two home players in action . |
| 9 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
| 10 | Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something . |
| 11 | McLaren boss Ron Dennis was closeted in private discussions with Renault 's Bernard Dudot only hours after Berger 's victory . |
| 12 | Donna was taken into foster care at the end of 1986 , and there seems little prospect of her returning to live with Margy in the near future . |
| 13 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 14 | Because of his professed preference for isolation , it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base . |
| 15 | At the XII Party Congress in the same year , Ceauşescu was compared with great men and monarchs of the world 's past . |
| 16 | In response a Serbian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina was declared by ethnic Serbs who feared separation from Serbia proper , and who had boycotted the Feb. 29-March 2 referendum on independence [ see p. 38832 ] . |
| 17 | Edwin Montagu was accused of anti-British motives for his Indian policy ; with Reading as Viceroy there were openings for the diehards " latent anti-semitism . |
| 18 | A former Consett steelworker , Stafford was born in nearby Chopwell known as Little Moscow because of its proliferation of streets like Engels , Marx and Lenin Terraces . |
| 19 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 20 | On Nov. 19 Eduard Shevardnadze was reappointed as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs . |
| 21 | David was trained for christian service at the Scottish Baptist College and at the BTI . |
| 22 | An agreement to improve air quality in Canada and the United States was signed by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , and US President George Bush during a visit by the latter to Ottawa , the Canadian capital , on March 13 . |
| 23 | Composed of differing strands of Palestinian nationalist thought , the PLO was weakened by internal disagreements over whether to parley with the enemy , and if so on what grounds . |
| 24 | Powell had no argument with the principle of starting a magazine , or even over the amount of money it would cost , but he felt that Branson was treading on sensitive political ground in attempting to take advantage of somebody else 's industrial dispute . |
| 25 | Bruges was closed to English vessels , and Calais was isolated . |
| 26 | Ann was dressed in casual clothes , wearing particularly attractive trousers ; you would call them ‘ jeans ’ today . |
| 27 | During the hours of darkness , Jellicoe was bedevilled by conflicting and often inaccurate messages , both from his scout ships and the Admiralty . |
| 28 | An agreement with Hungary was expected in early 1993 , and talks with Bulgaria had begun on Nov. 23 . |
| 29 | For the first five days she was not mentioned , and Edward was treated with polite caution . |
| 30 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |