Example sentences of "was give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 he was given the ceremonial post of vice-president . |
| 2 | In December 1922 Ramsey took the scholarship examination of a group of colleges containing Magdalene and was given the top classical scholarship . |
| 3 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 4 | One way of evading restrictions was to find sinecure posts for good players ; one man was given the job of checking the advertising posters for the club , though the most common trick was for club directors , who were often substantial employers , to find part-time or simply bogus jobs for which payment was made . |
| 5 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 6 | There was strong criticism amongst black Labour Party members last year when no black was appointed to the front bench in that year 's reshuffle and again when Mr Alistair Darling , the MP for Edinburgh Central , was given the race relations brief . |
| 7 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 8 | Simultaneously , the patient was given the AZT drug . |
| 9 | The proposal was given the green light in a post-Tiananmen panic by people who will probably be living in Hampshire when , and if , the airport is built . |
| 10 | TSEMI was given the job of producing an alternative to the ideas of the state planning agency , Gosplan . |
| 11 | He did not have an outstanding game but was given the warmest of receptions by the crowd when he batted and was helped on his way by reassuring words from Desmond Haynes , a fellow Barbadian . |
| 12 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 13 | In 1932 she became a nun and was given the name Maria ‘ in memory of St Maria of Egypt who lived a life of penitence in the desert ’ . |
| 14 | She was given the chance to leave the camp on a number of occasions , but she waived the right so that others might go . |
| 15 | For this reason he was given the green light to prepare more detailed proposals for further consideration . |
| 16 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 17 | Day after day , he was given the same old put-off by the stage doorman about Viola not being there . |
| 18 | He was given the Distinguished Flying Cross , though his service record showed no combat missions , and he waited till 1952 to claim it . |
| 19 | The proliferation of nuclear weapons was given the title of ‘ the Nth power problem . ’ |
| 20 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 21 | The new regent was given the opportunity to determine a much more clear-cut policy than that of the 1540s . |
| 22 | Yugoslavia was given the Vojvodina , that section of plain to the north of Belgrade . |
| 23 | This trip included a newly qualified doctor , who was given the trip as a birthday present , a curator from the V & A , a City solicitor , a pianist and a colonel in the UDR . |
| 24 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 25 | He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( America 's highest civilian award ) earlier this year . |
| 26 | Tritsis 's career as a stormy petrel continued when he was given the education portfolio in 1987 — he was unshipped the next year by a protracted teachers ' strike . |
| 27 | A BRITON was given the top military post in Nato yesterday , writes Peter Almond , Defence Correspondent . |
| 28 | I understood this only after I was given the Mont Blanc as a present . |
| 29 | ‘ The Great Leader ’ was given the new title as 22 million North Koreans prepared to enjoy lavish birthday festivities in what the official media called ‘ the biggest national holiday ever ’ . |
| 30 | When he retired as Secretary-General in 1960 he was given the Padma Vibhushan , the second-highest Indian honour ; in the Lok Sabha ( India 's Lower House ) Nehru paid an extremely rare tribute to a civil servant , saying that Pillai 's departure created ‘ a certain blank ’ . |