Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 2 | We were given mugs of coffee and slices of black bun , a dark Christmas-time cake that had come from Scotland too . |
| 3 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |
| 4 | Women were given rights to property , credit facilities and access to literacy programmes . |
| 5 | In one experiment birds were given choices between members of the opposite sex that were either familiar siblings , novel siblings , novel first-cousins , novel third-cousins , or novel unrelated individuals . |
| 6 | The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away . |
| 7 | Before the change , they were given photographs of republicans to take with them on patrols . |
| 8 | They were given briefings by North or sometimes by Abrams in the Old Executive Office Building , shown photographs of airports and harbours , and made privy to mysterious movements of Soviet aircraft and ships . |
| 9 | All three were given prizes of £20 vouchers . |
| 10 | 81 Hampdens , Whitleys and Wellingtons from 3 , 4 and 5 Groups were given targets in Berlin . |
| 11 | We were given subsidies on cattle and sheep as well . |
| 12 | Around the frames were hung walls of lath and plaster , with the upper storeys occasionally protected by hung tiles , and the roofs covered in the same materials or , in some cases , with Horsham Slate . |
| 13 | The Grail and Excalibur were seen centuries after Arthur 's death and the monks who reinterred his body here would scarcely bury such sacred relics . ’ |
| 14 | A total of 118 British firms were granted awards for export achievement this year ; 25 were rewarded for technological achievement ; 12 won awards for Environmental correctness . |
| 15 | Sheets were turned sides to middle and worn blankets cut up to make sleeping bags for children . |
| 16 | In 1701 by the Act of Settlement Catholics were debarred from the English succession , and Sophia and her heirs were named heirs to William III and Anne . |
| 17 | Millions of soldiers were made prisoners of war , and many other Germans were interned under the Allied policy of ‘ denazification ’ whilst their activities under the Third Reich were investigated . |
| 18 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 19 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 20 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 21 | In September he was appointed royal hydrographer and he and his wife and children were made denizens of England under royal warrant . |
| 22 | Both he and Robert of Courson , another Englishman , were made cardinals by Innocent . |
| 23 | Yeltsin was given the authority to appoint people to local government , and to suspend the actions of the presidents of autonomous republics within the Russian Federation , who were made heads of executive power within those republics . |
| 24 | The clan chiefs who had taken part against the King were offered pardons on condition that each took an oath of allegiance to King William before 1st January , 1692 . |
| 25 | The chairman of the Central Authority was paid £8500 , his deputy chairmen £5000 and other full-time members £3500 , while Area Board chairmen were offered salaries of £4000 . |
| 26 | Now , as they shoved their way through the audience , two wooden chairs were knocked over and there were drawn breaths of outrage . |
| 27 | In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure . |
| 28 | Its planning figures up to 1980–1 were endorsed , the CATs were authorized to appoint Academic Advisory Committees to advise on how best to obtain university status and to assist in the planning of their future development , the CNAA was established in 1964 , and the teacher training colleges were renamed Colleges of Education and were encouraged to work with the universities to introduce the new BEd degree . |
| 29 | As Dana Gillespie recalls , ‘ I 'm sure everyone 's got a different version of it , and I really did n't witness any rows , but I would often hear from my assistant who would tell me he 'd just come back from MainMan offices and the door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum , and there were raised voices between David and him in there . |
| 30 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |