Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no reference to Indonesia which was allotted the status of a colony . |
| 2 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 3 | Subjects who were asked the questions when under hypnosis made significantly more errors in their subsequent descriptions of events . |
| 4 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 5 | What light there was brushed the back of his head , highlighting a few strands of blond hair . |
| 6 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 7 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 8 | On their return they were given the Charles University which they absorbed into the Clementinum , and the emperor became their protector . |
| 9 | No wonder it was termed the jewel of the Adriatic . |
| 10 | After an eye test he was given the rank of petty officer engineer and directed to Victoria Station to take charge of 20 similar recruits . |
| 11 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 12 | ‘ I always like to help The Thin Blue Line , ’ I smiled , not adding that in Brixton it was called The Thick , etc . |
| 13 | Battuta presented the gifts he had brought from Khorasan ; and in return he was given the post of Qazi ( or judge ) and presented with two villages , a pension of twelve thousand dinars and a house in which to live . |
| 14 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 15 | Like many other very wealthy Jews during the early modern period , Carvajal became an army purveyor , and in 1649 was one of the City merchants who were given the corn contract for the parliamentary forces . |
| 16 | Later , when I got to Bristol I was prescribed the vitamins and mineral supplements such a diet needed , but to even start to get used to it was a formidable struggle . |
| 17 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 18 | What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group . |
| 19 | It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task . |
| 20 | But as Zen pointed out , at least in Perugia you were spared the relentless commercialization of the pilgrim city , the three-dimensional postcards of a glamorous St Francis preaching to an audience of stuffed animals , the bottles of ‘ Monk 's Delight ’ liqueur , the ceramic prayer texts suitable for mounting over the toilet , the little figurines of lovable monks with round bellies and mischievous smiles . |
| 21 | Aung San Sun Kyi — Burmese democracy movement leader who was awarded the Nobel Prize while under house arrest |
| 22 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 23 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 24 | And er in later days it was called the School . |
| 25 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 26 | This is a landmark visible for miles along the coast ; indeed there was a protest from seafarers when in recent years it was feared the spire might need to be dismantled . |
| 27 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 28 | He replaced Sam Skinner who was given the largely ceremonial post of chairman of the Republican National Committee . |
| 29 | Whitlock telephoned them the moment he returned to the hotel but when Sabrina contacted Lausanne station she was told the only afternoon train had already departed . |
| 30 | At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit . |