Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victims of assault , wounding , robbery and sexual crimes were also given counselling but by far the greatest number of people ( 4,835 ) were given help after house burglaries . |
| 2 | Care of mentally ill , mentally handicapped , elderly , and elderly mentally disabled people was grouped by the report under category A , which was given priority for health boards ' spending . |
| 3 | Salomon Brothers Inc was lead manager with Lehman Brothers and Needham & Co as co-managers . |
| 4 | Louis Pienaar was appointed Minister of Home Affairs and remained in charge of Environment Affairs . |
| 5 | Lt. Gen. Chit Swe , hitherto Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Affairs , was appointed Minister of Forestry Affairs . |
| 6 | I. Kalinichenko was appointed Commander-in-Chief of border troops . |
| 7 | Knighted by the queen in the following year , he was appointed surveyor of Crown lands in Devon for life , and sat for local constituencies in the next seven Parliaments . |
| 8 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |