Example sentences of "[was/were] recognised [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be a spinster was one thing ; to be a married woman with or without children , or a recently-bereaved widow , all were recognised and acceptable roles in society . |
| 2 | As soon as deaf and dumb children were recognised as capable of benefiting from secular and religious teaching , their rescue from degradation and the saving of their souls became objects ranking high in the scale of Victorian values . |
| 3 | As a result of the rigidity of the museum 's directors , Magritte 's widow drew up a second will , and the new provisions were recognised as valid . |
| 4 | In the late 1970s , after a considerable hoo-ha , girls were recognised as fit to be young explorers and the first mixed expedition went to Arctic Norway in 1980 . |
| 5 | Khrushchev asserted in March 1960 that ’ the Soviet Union is now the world 's strongest military power' ( Izvestiia , 2 March 1960 ) and , although it was recognised that Soviet economic capacity was then inferior to that of the United States , it was confidently predicted that the socialist nations would have outstripped the West within a decade . |
| 6 | Again , it was recognised that young people can either be helped or taught to be ‘ helpless ’ . |
| 7 | Secondly , it was recognised that existing services were often vital but that they were unable to meet all the needs of this special group of elderly people and that different types of service might be required ; it was never intended that the project should deprive people of existing services and substitute others for them , but that it should bridge gaps between those already available , whether statutory , voluntary or private . |
| 8 | Indeed , if any single scientific theory is to represent the advances of natural science in our period , and was recognised as crucial , it was the theory of evolution , and if any one figure dominated the public image of science it was the craggy and somewhat ape-like one of Charles Darwin ( 1809–82 ) . |