Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 2 | In late July and early August , he was assigned the sombre task of accompanying the body of Gerda Taro in its journey back to France . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The patient received the same amount of air as he was given the previous week . |
| 5 | He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( America 's highest civilian award ) earlier this year . |
| 6 | Newton transformed the game after Fleck limped off following a kick up the backside and he was given the lone striker 's role . |
| 7 | In 1640 he was given the minor office of master of the Posts , but did not retain it beyond 1641 , at the end of which year he suffered a short spell of prison for alleged defiance of a parliamentary order . |
| 8 | For this reason he was given the green light to prepare more detailed proposals for further consideration . |
| 9 | Following the ratification of Yeutter 's appointment , he was given the ceremonial title of general chairman of the party . |
| 10 | In 1982 he was given the ceremonial post of vice-president . |
| 11 | Amenhotep , who had been found with a garland of flowers still round his neck , went by train , first class sleeper , where he was given the top bunk . |
| 12 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 13 | It would be a travesty if he was denied the crowning glory of one more run for his maiden Test century this morning . |
| 14 | One of three suspects , Ali Vakili Rad , was arrested by Swiss police on Aug. 21 and extradited on Aug. 27 to France , where he was charged the following day with murder . |
| 15 | Yeah but even he was gone the other night . |
| 16 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 17 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 18 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 19 | He was replaced the following day by his close associate Banarasi Das Gupta . |
| 20 | He was replaced the following day by Hukam Singh . |
| 21 | Dave Webb 's disappointment at missing out on the Chelsea manager 's job was eased yesterday when he was named the new boss of Brentford . |
| 22 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 23 | Although Faulkner wanted a guarantee that the agreement was constitutionally sound , he was told the Supreme Court would decide . |
| 24 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 25 | When he was handed the official document making Sati illegal in December 1829 , he left the preaching to another and hurried to translate the order into Bengali . |
| 26 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 27 | He was awarded the Geological Society 's R. H. Worth prize for his contributions in the field of vertebrate paleontology and he was featured on television with Sir David Attenborough . |
| 28 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 29 | In recognition of his work on thin films and terrestrial magnetism he was awarded the Royal medal of the Royal Society in 1891 and became president of the permanent committee on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity of the International Meteorological Conference in 1896 . |
| 30 | He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University in July 1990 . |