Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the guidelines were introduced the referral rate from general practitioners for examinations covered by the guidelines was 88.4/1000 registered patients ( table I ) . |
| 2 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 4 | Under the 1980 Social Security Act this system was maintained but local offices were given the discretion to pay in full the charges made by private and voluntary residential homes . |
| 5 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 6 | Since the last World War , soldiering , as a profession , had lost its romantic appeal , but in Vietnam the journalists were given the chance of acting out fantasies about themselves , war , love and death . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 8 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 9 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 10 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |
| 11 | A goal down with only two minutes to go , Juventus were awarded the spot-kick when striker Paolo Di Canio was brought down . |
| 12 | They , therefore , introduced a third condition in which subjects were given the title of the passage after having read it . |
| 13 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 14 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |
| 15 | With the carriage were displayed the necessaire , and an assortment of items which has originally been retained by von Keller as souvenirs and which were eventually acquired by Madame Tussaud . |
| 16 | As the main purchasing authority , DHAs were given the responsibility for ensuring that the health care needs of their resident population were met . |
| 17 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 18 | Before the sea-walls were built the place must have been a true sea-marsh , largely flooded whenever there was a particularly high tide , with islands of sandy soil bound by the tussocky marram grass defeating the sea here and there . |
| 19 | Tanzanians were brought up with their own musical , dance and oral traditions but at school or college were taught the language , culture and even the history of the colonial power . |
| 20 | No one could be sure and the shapes were given the non-committal name of stromatolite , a word derived from Greek meaning no more than " stony carpet " . |
| 21 | The project was so successful that the youngsters were awarded the school 's own annual Steelite Enterprise Trophy . |
| 22 | But members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site built without Department of Environment grant aid was extremely basic and fell short of the type of accommodation provided on county council-owned sites . |
| 23 | Members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site was extremely basic . |
| 24 | When she set sail for her homeland in 1952 Eva and another Australian girl were given the job of looking after twelve children from the Fairbridge Society on the voyage . |
| 25 | Parents were given the option of having their male infants screened for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in addition to the routine tests for phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism . |
| 26 | From a modest start five years ago when 30,000 tonnes were handled the business has grown to 400,000 tonnes per annum . |
| 27 | Mercifully , Islington was not the disease-trap that nearby Shoreditch was , and the Titfords were spared the fate of many of their fellow citizens . |
| 28 | Visitors were given the opportunity to ‘ Try-a-Sport ’ which included activities such as canoeing , croquet , weights , aerobics and trampolining . |
| 29 | The more important members of the household were given the crisp , tasty top halves — earning themselves the name ‘ upper crust ’ . |
| 30 | ( In fact , shares were not offered to the public , but instead the management were offered the chance to organise a management buyout . ) |