Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British complained when they were only given a quarter of new EC fishing quotas despite providing sixty per cent of the fishing grounds . |
| 2 | His undergraduates were thus given a sense of the progression of medical knowledge , and of how it might develop in the future . |
| 3 | The Mathematics department felt that their allocation was being eroded as other weightings increased , so they were finally given a weighting of 1.2 . |
| 4 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 5 | Subjects were finally shown a map on which the route was marked and they were asked to indicate those sections of the route which they had previously known . |
| 6 | They were finally released a week later and sent home under a supervision order . |
| 7 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 8 | You were always offered a cup of tea . " |
| 9 | TWO union officials at Timex were yesterday given a week to counter a claim that they have breached an interim interdict granted at the Court of Session earlier this month . |
| 10 | THIRD DIVISION Workington were yesterday handed a dream Regal Trophy third round tie against five-times winners Wigan . |
| 11 | We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ We were once sent a polo pony to get fit for the coming polo season who was terrified of his mouth . |
| 13 | All doctors ( n=48 ) in the participating practices who had performed two or more prompted clinical reviews by May 1989 were also sent a questionnaire of 24 question stems , of which seven are reproduced in box 3 ; 31 general practitioners ( 65% ) responded . |
| 14 | They were given an ounce of twist tobacco a week and two at Christmas , when they were also given a pint of beer . |
| 15 | Both boys won a week 's discovery holiday for two in Dorset , and , like the 17 runners-up , were also given a year 's subscription to the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the choice of a camera , pair of binoculars , telescope or microscope . |
| 16 | But readers were also given a piece of gummed paper to stick after the figure ten , written on which was the missing word ‘ million ’ . ) |
| 17 | During this time they were also shown a reel of commercials for different brands , including one for Tetley round bags . |
| 18 | You were simply given a lamp and told , ‘ Your beat starts here . |
| 19 | On 18 October , News Chronicle readers were simply delivered a copy of the Mail , with News Chronicle in small type on the mast-head . |
| 20 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |
| 21 | The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order . |
| 22 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 23 | The nursery nurses were initially given a talk on the nature of what was , in essence , a pilot scheme for functional integration . |
| 24 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 25 | We went youth hostelling for m the sort of the chapel choir , after When you grew up in chapel , then you were either found a job teaching , in the Sunday School , or you went into the choir . |
| 26 | We contacted the Welsh Office and were belatedly sent a copy of the paper . |
| 27 | ( All those Iranians who helped the Shah in these day were subsequently rewarded a thousandfold ) . |
| 28 | Benjamin reports that his classmates openly say things which were never said a year ago . |
| 29 | The plastic gums were hectically coloured a sunset pink . |
| 30 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |