Example sentences of "was declared a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afghanistan , which had been a monarchy until a coup in 1973 , was declared a Democratic Republic in 1978 following a second coup led by the communist People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) , which installed a government largely comprising its own members . |
| 2 | Over the weekend all attempts to salvage the Danish cargo vessel were called off and the ship was declared a total loss . |
| 3 | At Greenham Common , for example , it was declared a criminal offence to ‘ enter , pass through or over or remain in or over ’ the area of the base . |
| 4 | Most of the state was declared a federal disaster area and , on Sept. 12 , military transports began a massive airlift of food , medical supplies and search and rescue teams . |
| 5 | At yesterday 's meeting of the Club 's Disciplinary Committee , Willett , 33 , was declared a disqualified person for 20 years . |
| 6 | There was a cheer when Basildon was declared a Tory hold . |
| 7 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 8 | Mount Apo , on the southern island of Mindanao , was declared a National Park in 1936 . |
| 9 | Sarawak was declared a British colony on 1 July 1946 . |
| 10 | Benin was declared a Marxist-Leninist state in 1972 ; and a similar form of administration was introduced in the People 's Republic of the Congo in 1970 under the direction of a single ruling party , the Congolese Party of Labour ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1981 ) . |
| 11 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |