Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town subscribed towards a new steamer engine which was christened Constance by Mrs Norman McCorquodale in 1913 . |
| 2 | January 1936 : In South Wales , particularly in the Rhonda Valley the tramp of thousands of feet was heard day after day . |
| 3 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 4 | Deeside Training Enterprise was given £100,000 by Grampian Enterprise in 1991 to show ex-servicemen and women how best to sell their skills to civilian employers . |
| 5 | He was given £100,000 in damages , more than a testimonial at Elland Road would ever have reaped . |
| 6 | Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes . |
| 7 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 8 | Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke 's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot . |
| 9 | Between these two journeys , in 147–6 , he was given ships by Scipio to explore the coasts of Africa ( Plin . |
| 10 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 11 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 12 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 13 | Former King Michael , who had tried to re-enter Romania on Dec. 25 , 1990 , only to be expelled after 12 hours at the airport , was given leave on Jan. 6 to have his Romanian citizenship restored . |
| 14 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 15 | This was clearly demonstrated in Duncan Sandys ' second Defence White Paper , published in February 1958 , in which disarmament was given pride of place . |
| 16 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 17 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 18 | He was given benzylpenicillin with cefotaxime and transferred to the intensive care unit , where he subsequently made an uncomplicated recovery . |
| 19 | Mr O'Shaughnessy , who was given custody of Ryan when his marriage ended 10 years ago , said : ‘ My sister and grand-daughter are buried there . |
| 20 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 21 | Robert Ratcliffe , who was given office in Sheen ( Surrey ) by the queen , can be identified with the Woodville interest . |
| 22 | Robert Ratcliffe , who was given office in Sheen ( Surrey ) by the queen , can be identified with the Woodville interest . |
| 23 | Thorpe who was to have headed the bill said that he had been in touch with the promoters earlier in the year and had agreed to come over provided he was given details in writing . |
| 24 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 25 | After service at the Balloon School in Farnborough , he commanded the airship company in the short-lived air battalion of the Royal Engineers ( 1911–12 ) , and then , on the formation of the Royal Flying Corps , was given command of No. 1 Squadron ( Airships ) . |
| 26 | In 1938 he was given command of Mercury , the top ( seaplane ) half of the Mayo composite , the lower carrier element being the Maia flying boat . |
| 27 | Moreover , as Alexander 's reign proceeded the government was given cause for alarm by the most radical section of the educated public : the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia . |
| 28 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 29 | Buckingham was made constable and steward of all the royal land in Shropshire , Herefordshire , Somerset , Dorset and Wiltshire and was given power of array in the same counties . |
| 30 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |