Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With her hooded eyes loaded with mascara she was often likened to Myrna Loy and was eventually given a film test , a frequent occurrence for beauties in the 1920s . |
| 3 | When he was eventually offered a chair , at the age of sixty-eight , it was not in Britain but at Harvard . |
| 4 | Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK . |
| 5 | The Chester case was widely considered a test the government 's response to development pressures on open land surrounding other historic cities in Britain . |
| 6 | The attempt in the 1890s to turn headmen into policemen in Kurunagala was widely considered a failure , and even officials responsible for the province at the time emphasized the importance of coconut plantations in the decline of cattle theft . |
| 7 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 8 | Neville Chamberlain was naturally offered a return to the Treasury . |
| 9 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 10 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 11 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 12 | In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits . |
| 13 | I was only finished a week on Friday you see . |
| 14 | Dr Hendron said : ‘ The UDA was only proscribed a year ago , therefore intelligence operations could be better in that community . ’ |
| 15 | He served Edinburgh University from 1895 as the assessor of the university court and was soon elected a curator of patronage , a post he held until he died . |
| 16 | In 1529 there was thus published A Dialogue of Sir Thomas More , Knight , wherein be treated … veneration and worship of images and relics ; praying to Saints and going on pilgrimage ; with many other things touching the pestilent sect of Luther and Tyndale . |
| 17 | As for the penalty handed down by ICC match referee Conrad Hunte , Aqib Javed was generously spared a match suspension , having to find only half his match fee of around £275 , which is derisory in the contest of the player 's income from match bonuses etc . |
| 18 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 19 | Newman , John Henry ( 1801–1890 ) A foremost leader of the Oxford Movement within Anglicanism , Newman later converted to Roman Catholicism and was finally made a Cardinal before his death . |
| 20 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 21 | ‘ Soiled ’ was instantly forgotten — ‘ Soup ’ , by contrast , was deservedly proclaimed a hit . |
| 22 | A MINING town devastated by the closure of a nearby colliery just days ago was yesterday given a Government cash boost . |
| 23 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |
| 24 | THE European Commission was yesterday given a mandate to negotiate with the United States over renewing access to its steel market , French diplomats said . |
| 25 | Wayne Harrison , who was once the costliest teenager in English football , was yesterday granted a testimonial by Liverpool which will be hosted by Oldham , the player 's first club , on April 28 . |
| 26 | John Taylor , 31 , of Headingley Crescent , Darlington , was yesterday fined a total of £300 and ordered to pay £50 costs after pleading guilty by letter to three charges of making false representation to obtain benefit . |
| 27 | No-one in the United States Rugby Union had a clue about coverage and neither the union nor the magazine was ever sent a press release . |
| 28 | Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card . |
| 29 | So , in addition to the high increases in taxation that the Labour party would impose if it was ever given a chance , the community charge payer , or the council tax payer , would be ripped apart by high-spending Labour authorities , because there would be no capping . |
| 30 | No-one was ever had a transplant for the inherited disorder . |