Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of the extensive Bonaparte family only Napoleon I 's remaining brother , King Jerome , and his family ( the Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde ) , were given the status of Imperial Princes ( Princes français ) , with a separate civil list and the right to sit in the Senate . |
| 32 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |
| 33 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 34 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 35 | These agents were given the old familiar name for obscure virulent materials , virus , and presented considerable difficulties because they could be detected only by infecting susceptible species and observing whether disease resulted . |
| 36 | Finally , in 1974 both Kosovo and Vojvodina were given the status of autonomous provinces , nominally within the republic of Serbia , but in practice with semi-republican rights of direct access to the Yugoslav federal Skupština , the federal government , and even to the leading bodies of the Party . |
| 37 | Amongst the flag-waving crowd were children from St. John 's C.E. Primary School , who were given the day off . |
| 38 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 39 | I were given the chance . |
| 40 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 41 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 42 | And viewers were given the ridiculous impression that two blokes from Sussex University , rather than Eugene Garfield , had invented citation analysis as a means of assessing quality in research . |
| 43 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 44 | Four working groups were given the job of providing negotiators with scientific and technical information . |
| 45 | When the Falklands were invaded on 2 April last year , they were given the weekend to pack and a police escort to the Dover ferry . |
| 46 | A small contingent of members were given the option of running either 15 or 21 miles . |
| 47 | A castle or fortified tower had stood on the site since Archibald 's Norman ancestors the De Eglintons were given the land in the 12th century but his castle had been completed only 15 years before his birth . |
| 48 | For centuries it was persecuted and the cruelties heaped upon it were given the full backing of the Church . |
| 49 | A German peasant farmer moving to the east was obliged to pay one sixth of the profit of his labour to a landlord , and only those peasants who took on more than 6.4 hectares ( 16 acres ) were given the opportunity to buy their land . |
| 50 | When elected councillors were given the chance to judge the film , 127 councils voted to approve its exhibition to adult audiences , whilst seven went so far as to permit entry to 14-year-olds . |
| 51 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 52 | They were given the right to visit , but they do n't have to produce passports . |
| 53 | At the same time , though Kinnock drew back from endorsing tactical voting , candidates in marginals were given the go-ahead to make the personal commitments to PR in order to encourage it . |
| 54 | All patients referred to the ENP were given the opportunity to be seen by a doctor . |
| 55 | In the 1890s magistrates were given the power to order corporal punishment as punishment for specific offences . |
| 56 | In 1892 magistrates were given the power not to record testimony when the sentence was not to exceed imprisonment for one month or a fine of twenty-five rupees . |
| 57 | Magistrates and judges were given the power to release upon probation for good conduct first offenders who had committed an offence not punishable by more than three years imprisonment . |
| 58 | In addition , district courts were given the power to imprison these men for up to four years . |
| 59 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 60 | The remaining 900 employees — out of a workforce once totalling 40,000 — were given the grim news yesterday at a meeting with managers and union representatives . |