Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Barbarians , who were actually Celts and were given their cruel name by their invaders , transported their stuff by sea or by horse and cattle ( and had links with Europe , incidentally ) , the Romans built roads . |
| 2 | These were given their first test run and enthused about by the audiences for Wuthering Heights a very worthwhile investment . |
| 3 | In 1979 , British voters were given their first opportunity to elect representatives . |
| 4 | At these concerts many of Bach 's symphonies , concertos , cantatas , chamber works , and keyboard sonatas were given their first performances . |
| 5 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 6 | Benefit of the Doubt must be given that all employed by the Grand Canyon were brain damaged at birth and were given their bureaucratic procedure in India . |
| 7 | Until then , every studio had a cast list of thirty or forty top-billing actors and actresses and dozens of contracted young people who were provided with their acting lessons , their dance lessons , their speech lessons , and the young directors were given their directorial tests , and they all went into bat often . |
| 8 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 9 | The fact that his choices have been criticised in their communities for collaborating with apartheid ever since Indians and coloureds — but not blacks — were given their own chambers in 1984 suggests that the president had difficulty finding anyone willing to join a government nearing the end of its life . |
| 10 | The frenzied excavations of a wooing mole gripped by spring fever were evident and , acting blind , I could feel how close together were positioned his little hills of excavated earth . |
| 11 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 12 | When Matthew was six weeks old , Karen and husband Tony , 28 , were told his chronic kidney condition was deadly . |
| 13 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 14 | When we went to see her we were shown her enormous melanomas , two were the size of large grapefruit and there were numerous others up to golf ball size . |
| 15 | The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard , though his immediate family were spared its direct horrors . |
| 16 | The couple were allocated their new housing association home through Middlesbrough Council . |
| 17 | The Moslems were awarded their legal costs and approximately US$12,000,000 in compensation . |
| 18 | Just seven days earlier , they were warned their new-born babies may have been tagged wrongly when a fire alarm went off . |
| 19 | The music of Chopin , the poetry of Mickiewicz — both produced in exile — and the paintings of Jan Matejko are all powerful emotional and political responses to the reality of life in a country whose people were denied their own forms of government , and whose culture was relegated to nothing more than a set of quaint country ways . |
| 20 | The only disappointing aspect of the evening was the fact that we were denied our customary postmatch interview with Mr Taylor . |
| 21 | It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents . |
| 22 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 23 | Between 1764 and 1765 two outer wings were added and the façade was given its Rococo scrolls by Jan Josef Wirch . |
| 24 | Care programming was given its present form by a Department of Health Circular HC(90)23/LASSL(90)11 addressed to both health and social services authorities . |
| 25 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 26 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 27 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 28 | The strategy was given its first airing two days after the Danish vote at a meeting of the Council in Oslo on 4 June , when it was agreed to proceed with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty while giving time to the Danes to resolve their problems . |
| 29 | Once a definitive picture of it was produced , it was given its own phylum . |
| 30 | The general proposition that an increase in demand was central to the industrial revolution was given its best-known exposition fifty years ago by Elizabeth Gilboy . |