Example sentences of "was given the " in BNC.
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| 31 | After an eye test he was given the rank of petty officer engineer and directed to Victoria Station to take charge of 20 similar recruits . |
| 32 | It was not until James Watt , instrument maker at Glasgow University , was given the job of repairing a model Newcomen steam engine , that a major breakthrough was made in the business of powering up the early beginnings of the industrial world . |
| 33 | One of his great scholars , Paul the Deacon , was given the task of preparing a new lectionary ( list of lessons for reading ) , drawn from the best selected texts . |
| 34 | Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school . |
| 35 | White or pink stonecrop ( Sedum anglicum ) was considered to be a delicacy and was given the name , the prince 's or lord 's food , also known as the English stonecrop . |
| 36 | The building works continued in a way we might recognise today , and the architect , Mr. Fair , was given the following list of outstanding jobs to discuss with the builder — raising the chimney , painting the window of the ladies ' lavatories , completing the lockers , re-arranging the pipes at the back of the dining room door , fixing the fireplaces and completing the heating apparatus . |
| 37 | She was constitutionally a Kali Carb. patient and she was given the 10M but sustained a long aggravation followed by weakening of her condition . |
| 38 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 39 | During the wait Mozart was given the chance of trying an organ in the local church ( something he was to do in many of the towns that the family later visited ) : |
| 40 | I managed to pacify him and , in return , was given the benefit of his opinions — unsolicited , I might say ! |
| 41 | When Jack was given the accolade of Best Actor by the New York Critics ' Award for his performance , he responded by sending them all a polite thank-you letter ; those critics who had mentioned him in the past had not been especially kind . |
| 42 | Councillors were jeered and heckled as they emerged and the mayor was given the Nazi salute as he drove off . |
| 43 | After the Catholic victory , the little Madonna was given the credit . |
| 44 | A closely related substance , which was given the name Sontochin , was also laid aside . |
| 45 | Mackay had no love for the Jacobite cause and in spite of his defeat at the Battle of Killiecrankie , he was given the task of subduing the Highlands , where he built the fort at the head of Loch Linnhe which became known as Fort William . |
| 46 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 47 | Edward was given the contract and threw himself into it with vigour , aided no doubt by his life-long abhorrence of the building which he was now about to replace . |
| 48 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 49 | He was given the most cathartic laundering of his life , but his reputation — and his earnings from sponsors — shot up when he published the story in magazines around the globe . |
| 50 | Sancho , ruling in Castile , at once began to extend his territories , assisted by Rodrigo , who was given the title of Ensign , a position which automatically gave him command of the army . |
| 51 | West of the town is Torbane , the location where James Young discovered the oil shale which was given the geological name Torbanite ( see Broxburn ) . |
| 52 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 53 | The third team was put in the charge of Billie Balmer , a former Everton full-back , while Jack Foster , a former Sunderland and Huddersfield centre-forward , was given the running of the reserves as well as acting as scout . |
| 54 | So centre-half Jack Butler was given the job of staying by the penalty area to break down opposing attacks , helped by the full-backs marking opposing wingers and the wing-halves the opposing inside-forwards . |
| 55 | The DoE , through Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , was given the task of co-ordinating a national response plan , installing the radiation monitoring network and acting as lead government department in an emergency ( HMSO 1988 ) . |
| 56 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 57 | Whilst my sisters wiped up , from an early age I was given the task of transporting the clean china and utensils from the lid of the copper ( there was no draining board ) to the kitchen table for one of the adults to put away . |
| 58 | Hence the strategy was given the name ‘ restructuring for labour ’ . |
| 59 | Wisely she was given the Popplewell season . |
| 60 | It was given the trade mark , ‘ Indral ’ and the generic , or chemical name , propranolol . |