Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police were even given the registration number . |
| 2 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 3 | Leonard , one of seven graduates that year , was merely awarded the graduation certificate ; a sign , he says of his half-hearted application . |
| 4 | AN RAF sergeant who twice crawled through an Iraqi minefield to rescue two badly injured boys was yesterday awarded the George Medal . |
| 5 | The favourite line of attack employed what was technically called the plum-pudding model . |
| 6 | The Swan , it was probably called The Swan Inn I think . |
| 7 | Former Tory MP Ian Grist , who lost his Cardiff Central seat to Labour in April , was later made the £19,000-a-year chairman of the South Glamorgan Health Authority . |
| 8 | In appreciation Colbeck received a magnificent loving cup from the Royal Geographical Society , engraved with the course of the Morning , and was also given the Back grant . |
| 9 | Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing . |
| 10 | He was also awarded the gold medal of the Highland and Agricultural Society . |
| 11 | He was appointed KBE in 1919 , partly in recognition of his services during the war years , and was also awarded the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society ( 1919 ) and an honorary LLD ( Toronto ) . |
| 12 | Sequent was also told the NT client could ship at the end of May , simultaneous with system 's launch at Comdex Spring/Windows World . |
| 13 | Sequent was also told the NT client could ship at the end of this month , simultaneously with system 's launch at Comdex Spring/Windows World . |
| 14 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 15 | Acquiring the rights to The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle had led to the formation of what was grandly called the Film Division although that was the only film yet within its compass . |
| 16 | Then there was a big show of Miró in New York in the late Sixties that got a good review in what was then called The Herald Tribune . |
| 17 | and was then boarded the team coach set for a quiet weekend before today 's clash at Ipswich Town . |
| 18 | Bednorg makes this point when discussing the work on superconductivity for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize with Alex Mueller ( Rae and Forgan , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | In 1981 , however , sports car drivers had a World Championship for the first time , when the championship was again renamed the World Endurance Championship and from 1982 the championship was for the new Group C cars . |
| 20 | It was therefore called the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus ( or the LOB Corpus , for short ) , and has since become widely used throughout the world . |