Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 2 | Great Yarmouth was successfully awarded a long term contract with Shell Expro , while Falkirk and Milford Haven increased their market share in support of the onshore petro-chemical industry . |
| 3 | Aston was eventually offered a temporary place in a hostel occupied exclusively by men , many of whom have been recently released from prison or who have drug problems . |
| 4 | He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days . |
| 5 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 6 | He was widely considered a strong supporter of further European integration . |
| 7 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 8 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |
| 9 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 10 | He was only spared a long jail term when 24-year-old Lynn agreed to drop assault charges providing he went into therapy . |
| 11 | It was only sold a short while ago , and the family were hoping to move to this house in Eynsham , but the sale fell through . |
| 12 | If the base drive of the switching transistor was suddenly removed a large induced voltage would appear between the transistor collector and emitter , causing permanent damage to the drive circuit . |
| 13 | The Sotheby 's cover lot , Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys 's ‘ Portrait of Julia Smith Caldwell ’ , was apparently judged a pretty , but nonetheless ordinary portrait ; it was bought-in at £62,000 ( estimate £70–100,000 ) . |
| 14 | By the early twentieth century , an impressive picture had been composed , to which was soon added an important survey of the local road system and the fort near the Billing Brook . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |
| 16 | The radio was thus given a traditional role once entrusted only to wise old men and women . |
| 17 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 18 | Despite the boost to foreign exchange revenue due to recent higher oil prices ( total foreign exchange earnings in 1991 were projected at US$11,855 million ) , the budget was nevertheless adjudged a cautious one , with Babangida stressing strict discipline in its implementation . |
| 19 | Oxford actually while it was open had a good reputation amongst prisoners for the relationship between staff and prisoners . |
| 20 | Into most theatrical productions there was somehow woven a patriotic strain ; at the close of a performance celebrating the birth of Molière , Marthe Chenal appeared draped in a tricolor to give a passionate rendering of the Marseillaise ; and at the music halls , a night seldom went by without the singing of the new favourites imported by the British , Tipperary and Rose of Picardy . |
| 21 | There was no W , since it was not reckoned a proper letter in its own right , but only a double U , which is how we pronounce it . |
| 22 | This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding . |
| 23 | Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons . |
| 24 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |
| 25 | Mrs Piggott 's BUSTED ROCK was not given a hard race when 14½l sixth to Satin Lover at Ascot and is open to plenty of improvement . |
| 26 | He was not given a medical examination after he lodged his complaint ; however , he still bore scars from the torture one year after his arrest . |
| 27 | He claimed he was not given a fair hearing . |
| 28 | Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926 . |
| 29 | Yosemite followed in 1890 , but one of the wonders of the natural world remained fairly remote from the public until the turn of the century — the Grand Canyon was not made a National Park until 1906 . |
| 30 | The church probably held some two hundred people but was not used a great deal in the 1920's . |