Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had at last been able to start building a hall of residence which had been in abeyance for six years , and the Director was underlining that student accommodation was in short supply in Teesside , and ‘ unless something is done by the provision of fiats , hostels , etc. , to supplement the supply of digs , I can see this being a factor which could really inhibit our development ’ . |
| 2 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 3 | It was to include public administration training courses and bursaries for black South Africans likely to become senior officials in the new political system . |
| 4 | Mr Brettell , who is married , pleaded ‘ no contest ’ to a public lewdness charge and was given one year probation , after which the misdemeanor will likely be dropped . |
| 5 | When the first CAMRA annual meeting was held in 1972 the event was given wide media coverage and thousands flocked to join the new organisation . |
| 6 | The project , now scheduled for the first two weekends of June , went into the May issue of Spokesworker and was given front page treatment in the main newsletter , which also came out in May . |
| 7 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 8 | Fenton was given 18 months detention in a young offenders institution for the aggravated burglary and 12 months concurrent for each of the other offences . |
| 9 | He was given 160 hours community service and ordered to pay £200 compensation . |
| 10 | Each subject fasted overnight and at 0900 h was given 50 g lactose dissolved in 200 ml water , after an antiseptic mouth wash and a baseline end expiratory breath sample had been taken . |
| 11 | We knew the Germans were still sentimental about Christmas , and I was given several days leave . |
| 12 | At the launch , Fillpina Primary Health Care Worker Susan Cueva described how her baby , Chisan was given free Nestle baby milk in a Baguio City hospital against her wishes . |
| 13 | If the home was judged to be satisfactory , the prospective foster parent , or ‘ befriender ’ as the RCM preferred to call them , was given some reading matter to prepare for the day . |
| 14 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 15 | The 56-acre former Navy mine depot was given local nature reserve status after a fight to prevent it being developed as the site of 600-inmate prison . |
| 16 | Durobrivae actually means ‘ bridge-fort ’ and was situated ten miles south-east of Stamford on the River Nene at Water Newton . |
| 17 | Although originally the aim was to promote Chartered Manager status , this aim is now being pursued independently by the British Institute of Management , with the approval of CMEAD . |
| 18 | The order was placed one Thursday evening in March and was delivered in London on the Tuesday . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the department said the United States was convinced that Libya was building chemical weapons manufacturing and related facilities . |
| 20 | It was recommended that energy conservation be made the responsibility of the Department of the Environment , and that the government 's Energy Efficiency Office be taken out of control of the Department of Energy and made an independent agency . |
| 21 | The initiative 's primary goal was to provide greater Fortran functionality in massively parallel computing , especially in the fields of data parallel programming ; the provision of non-uniform memory access calls on parallel computers ; and common code tuning application programming interfaces for different architectures . |
| 22 | The initiative 's primary goal was to provide greater Fortran functionality in massively parallel computing , especially in the fields of data parallel programming ; the provision of non-uniform memory access costs on parallel computers ; and common code tuning application programming interfaces for different architectures . |
| 23 | There were two lawful ways to demolish the listed chapel — one was to have the building de-listed and the second was to obtain listed building consent for its total demolition which involved seeking representations from six conservation bodies . |
| 24 | Christie , at 32 , the oldest Briton to win Olympic track gold , was voted Male Track Athlete of the Year at the Vauxhall British Athletics Awards , and immediately dismissed talk of his age as a ‘ problem in other people 's minds . |
| 25 | At the weekend , at the British Comedy Awards ceremony , 53-year-old Jason was voted top TV comedy actor for his performance as Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds Of May . |
| 26 | Neighbours , the show she was about to be seen leaving on British TV screens , was voted top TV show and her co-star Jason Donovan carried off four awards too . |
| 27 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 28 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 29 | Less than an hour before Anna was attacked another council employee phoned Gloucester police to say she 'd seen a man hanging around the docks all day acting suspiciously . |
| 30 | John Lindsay , vice-chairman of CIPFA 's Scottish branch , said that if cost was a factor which was driving local government reorganisation then it was important that ministers and officials of the Scottish Office had the best information available . |