Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 5 | A ROBBER who made Nazi salutes after shooting an Asian boy and his uncle was given two life sentences yesterday . |
| 6 | A ROBBER who made Nazi salutes after shooting dead a 15-year-old Asian schoolboy and attempting to murder his uncle was given two life sentences yesterday . |
| 7 | He was given two telephone numbers to contact MI5 , 01–222 5471 and 01–637 7319 . |
| 8 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 9 | Whatever the reason , he was given good trade rates . |
| 10 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 11 | Garry Cornes , 26 , a haemophiliac , was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1985 after he was given infected blood products . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | PREMIER John Major was given some Christmas cheer last night when top economists forecast economic revival in Britain next year . |
| 14 | On March 5 , Privatization Minister Volodimir Lanavoi became Minister for the Economy , and Kravchuk was given added executive powers . |
| 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 | Just five days before Courtney was convicted , Anthony Heard , a 25-year-old man of no fixed address , was given three life sentences for three rapes . |
| 17 | In February John Broom , 30 , was given three life sentences for raping a schoolgirl aged 16 , and later indecently assaulting a student . |
| 18 | He was given three penalty points and ordered to pay £15 towards prosecution costs . |
| 19 | BURNING POINT : Held every chance entering final furlong but was outpaced close home 2l 3rd to Philidor ( Goodwood 7f , Gd-Sft ) . |
| 20 | Under the electoral law decreed on March 17 by the provisional Council for National Unity government [ see pp. 37327-28 ] , the country was divided into 41 constituencies ; Bucharest , the capital and the most populous constituency , was assigned 39 Assembly seats and 14 Senate seats . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past . |
| 26 | In 1844 it was reported that College graduates had gone to South Africa , South America , Egypt and Australia . |
| 27 | ( On June 27 it was reported that extradition proceedings were being prepared against Todorov . ) |
| 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 | After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity . |
| 30 | 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 . |