Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another concern of employees expressed at the meeting was that younger women were only offered ultrasound examinations while older women were receiving mammograms . |
| 2 | Some of the more obvious locations , such as Felixstowe ( Suffolk ) were not granted Freeport status . |
| 3 | As I have said in the local press , my only sadness is that we were not afforded trust status a year ago . |
| 4 | But were still called water boards by the press and by people in general . |
| 5 | Jiri Dienstbier and Vaclav Vales were both appointed Deputy Premier ( the former retaining his post of Foreign Minister ) . |
| 6 | They were also declared League champions in a new competition in which winners of the Midland and Lancashire sections played each other on a home-away basis . |
| 7 | There were also jointed clay pipes , each one a tapering tube with lugs on its sides so that it could be tied to the next . |
| 8 | That 's where they were well named tramp coles I 've |
| 9 | The barrel of the gun and all the areas of the engine that were to be given a metal finish were then painted Chaos Black . |
| 10 | Deposits and long-term loans , given by private collectors to the museums before the war were subsequently considered State property and are now the subject of legal actions . |
| 11 | ‘ Though my sisters and I were never given pocket money . |
| 12 | They were therefore called neutron stars . |
| 13 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 14 | And she was suddenly denied job interviews and passed over for promotion , she said . |
| 15 | He was successively appointed house surgeon , registrar , and resident surgical officer at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London , from 1922 till 1927 ( he gained his FRCS in 1922 ) and was made consultant surgeon at the same hospital in 1928 . |
| 16 | Gerry de Silva was formally appointed army Chief of Staff on Oct. 23 . |
| 17 | But quickly she was allowed an even higher profile and last October was formally appointed party deputy chairman to take on a prominent role during the election campaign and to sell the party to the business community . |
| 18 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 19 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury was yesterday shown love letters written by King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn , the affair that caused the Church of England to break with Rome . |
| 20 | Upper Stowe was once called Butter Stowe because the London carrier collected butter here . |
| 21 | When multiplying was directly indicated success rates were high ; over half the lower third band pupils obtained the correct answers : When the multiplication operation had to be inferred , success rates depended on the context . |
| 22 | LSI Logic Corp has teamed up with TV/COM International Inc , San Diego supplier of equipment used by cable companies , satellite operators and business television users , for the joint development of digital compression components for the satellite , cable and direct broadcast satellite television industries : the products will be designed to facilitate the transition from analogue to digital television , and they will be based on the Motion Picture Experts Group-2 standard , which is currently undergoing the formal standardisation procedure by a committee of the International Standards Organisation ; TV/COM International is the company that was formerly called Oak Communications . |
| 23 | She said that she was probably had stomach ache because she was hungry . |
| 24 | Sancito Caro Brito [ named as Coco Brito on p. 37708 ] ; Jacqueline Mercedes Malagón was later appointed Education Minister in place of Pedro Gil Iturbes , who had been appointed earlier in the year but had resigned after Belaguer publicly accused him of jeopardizing an agreement between the government and the teachers ' association . |
| 25 | Branko Salaj was later appointed Information Minister . |
| 26 | This was later named South Vein and the level driven off along it in both directions was often referred to as South Vein Day Level . |
| 27 | He was also elected IBOA Sports Secretary in that year , a position which he has held since then . |
| 28 | The death of the lord lieutenant of Suffolk , Theophilus Howard , second Earl of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , on 3 June 1640 , brought Jermyn joint appointment as lord lieutenant with James Howard , the third earl [ q.v. ] ; he succeeded in quelling troop unrest at Beccles and Bungay in July 1640 , and during the summer was also appointed deputy lieutenant in Cornwall . |
| 29 | Changes since May were : Bufi , hitherto Minister of Nutrition , replaced Fatos Nano as Chair of Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) ; Pashko replaced Leontjev Cuci as Minister of the Economy and was also appointed Deputy Chair ; Teta replaced Ndricim Karakacias Minister of Defence ; Bajram Yzeiri replaced Hujredin Shyn as Minister of Public Order ; Shefqet Muci replaced Fatmir Zaloshnja as Minister of Justice ; Ruli replaced Anastas Angjeli as Minister of Finance ; Misja replaced as Minister of Industry Vilson Ahmeti who replaced Bufi as Minister of Nutrition ; Nano replaced Shane Korbeci as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations ; Agim Mero replaced Gavrosh Pogace as Minister of Domestic Trade and Tourism ; Fatos Bitincka replaced Kostandin Hoxha as Minister of Transport ; Prec Zogaj replaced Mojkom Zeqo as Minister of Culture , Youth and Sports ; Alfred Karamuko replaced Bujar Kolaneci as Chair of State Control Commission . |
| 30 | The Minister was interested in the exploitation of our work on advanced batteries and was also shown laser techniques for keyhole surgery and our licensed laser technology for the removal of ‘ port-wine ’ birth marks . |