Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 2 | On top of some were displayed heavy glass bottles of fizzy pop , or coloured postcards , or jig-saws or ragdolls with floppy arms . |
| 3 | Some of the males were injected with morphine for a few days and some were given other drugs . |
| 4 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |
| 5 | This was given unfortunate confirmation a month later by the arrest , as a Soviet spy , of the British-naturalized Austrian scientist , Klaus Fuchs , who had worked at Los Alamos . |
| 6 | This was given added impetus in 1971 with the removal of quantitative controls on the UK domestic banking system and the rapid development of the CD and interbank markets ensued . |
| 7 | Well if you look at it , this was called Top Valley Farm because it was the highest valley coming out of the city . |
| 8 | When this was done opposite effects emerged for generally risky and generally non-risky junctions . |
| 9 | He was a JP and DL of the county of Lincoln , and in 1881 was elected high sheriff of Bedfordshire . |
| 10 | He was educated in Glasgow , trained in the family business , and at the age of twenty-one was appointed general manager of the funeral department of the Glasgow Tramway & Omnibus Company . |
| 11 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
| 12 | In 1962 Winchester became Brigadier I/C Administration in Cyprus , and in 1963 was appointed military author of doctrine in insurgency in the War Office . |
| 13 | From 1954 to 1958 he was adviser on Militia to the Army and in 1963 was appointed honorary Colonel of the British Columbia Regiment . |
| 14 | In 1899 , the authors of an article in the Economic Journal estimated the total numbers of women compositors outside Scotland as about 300 , of whom 225 were employed ill firms in the London region , another 35 in two other firms , and the rest scattered in small houses employing single numbers . " |
| 15 | These were called Blue Buttons , just like the Stock Exchange juniors . |
| 16 | These were considered old-fashioned terms in a morally rudderless society , Trent thought with more sadness than bitterness . |
| 17 | A group of antigens capable of stimulating a strong mixed lymphocyte reaction between mice of the same MHC haplotype was recognised some time ago , and these were termed minor lymphocyte stimulating ( Mls ) determinants . |
| 18 | These were termed severe events and were assumed to have a causal role . |
| 19 | These were intensified affective bonding at the expense of neighbours and kin , a strong sense of individual autonomy , weakening of the association of sexual pleasure with sin and guilt , and a growing desire for physical privacy . |
| 20 | It is not entirely clear whether these were improved native stock or were imported , nor is it conclusively proven that the Saxons brought the large type of red cattle to southern England , establishing the ancestors of the heavy modern red breeds now found in Devon , Sussex and Lincolnshire . |
| 21 | For instance , rats were given novel saccharin solution and 1 5 min later were given novel vinegar solution , and finally they were made ill with lithium chloride . |
| 22 | All were given intravenous heparin and cardiac catheterisation was carried out at I 014 days . |
| 23 | ‘ All were offered alternative jobs at Point of Ayr colliery and decided not to take them , ’ she said . |
| 24 | INTEGRAL was given top ranking over three rival projects last week at a meeting in Paris of ESA 's space science advisory committee . |
| 25 | In this post he continued his excursions into China , and in 1897 was appointed resident correspondent of The Times in Peking . |
| 26 | NME hacks of the early '70s were given free drugs and sex by record companies . |
| 27 | Minutes of the A G M on the second of December nineteen ninety one were read proposed Jack and seconded that they be accepted . |
| 28 | But even the much richer Soviet collections issued in the twenties were given scant attention in the West . |
| 29 | Two weeks after their booster , nine were given intravenous injections of SIV . |
| 30 | For 2 weeks , eight groups of six rats each were fed purified diets , differing only in the concentrations of calcium and phosphate . |