Example sentences of "was [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lairds , like Swans , was designated a Naval yard and therefore intervention fund and for the E E C. With the advent of the peace dividend , those yards , designated Naval yards can not compete with the merchant yards who receive the intervention fund , which is basically a subsidy that allows European yards to compete on a level plain with shipyards in the Far East .
2 The Ridgeway which was designated a national trail by the Countryside Commission in nineteen seventy-two , runs from Overton Hill in Wiltshire Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire .
3 In 1976 the green was designated a conservation area .
4 Due to the varied types of building , and its historical features , most of Nafferton was designated a conservation area some years ago .
5 Stanhope itself is an old market town ; its centre has many 18th and 19th-century buildings , and was designated a conservation area in 1972 .
6 In March 1972 , the centre of Currie was designated a Conservation Area , and Balerno Village was designated a Conservation Area in December 1974 , by the local planning authority .
7 In March 1972 , the centre of Currie was designated a Conservation Area , and Balerno Village was designated a Conservation Area in December 1974 , by the local planning authority .
8 From underneath them was heard a faint sobbing which allowed their well trained ears to pinpoint the position .
9 He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome .
10 David introduced her to the warden , then they made their way to the residents ' common-room where Rachel was given a rapturous welcome by her new friends , in particular by a young Down 's syndrome woman called Belinda whose delight at seeing her again was only too apparent .
11 He was given a rapturous reception by a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 when the result was announced shortly after midnight .
12 Last year , Dowling was given a three-week ban , together with Peter Scudamore , after the pair were involved in a barging match at Newbury .
13 Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft .
14 In our report on the verdicts of the Giacometti fake trial in The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1991 , p.3 we incorrectly stated that Mr David Bernstein was given a two-year jail sentence and fined .
15 At her trial she pleaded guilty , and was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years .
16 The world economy was given a deflationary jolt .
17 FUN-LOVING Lady ‘ Bubbles ’ Rothermere was given a fizzing funeral yesterday — with Frank Sinatra 's recording of New York , New York .
18 He was given a three-year driving ban .
19 Each sub-system of the model was given a decimal code so that an audit trail could be established for the subsequent detailed analysis .
20 Holden , 48 , of Lyme Close , Knowsley , was given a nine-month sentence , suspended for two years , after admitting three specimen theft offences and asking for 48 others , spanning six months , to be considered .
21 He was born Femão de Magalhães , and the Portuguese — ‘ he is ours ’ , they insist — rarely care to acknowledge that he renounced his citizenship after a row , pledged his allegiance to King Charles I — later to become the Emperor Charles V — and was given a new name : Hernando de Magallanes .
22 His sister died , and to avert evil influences the boy was given a new name : Sukarno , or Karno .
23 Thus in eighteenth-century Europe the traditional typology of monarchy , oligarchy and democracy , originally formulated by the Greeks , was given a new sense in the writings of Montesquieu by the contrast between ‘ Oriental despotism ’ and the monarchies of Western Europe , which was further developed by Adam Smith , Hegel and later economists and historians , and played a considerable part in the formation of Marx 's conception of the Asiatic mode of production ; one main feature of the contrast being the ‘ progressiveness ’ of Western societies as against the ‘ immobility ’ of Asiatic societies .
24 For Christmas the following year , the month after the Armistice , Artemis was given a new doll .
25 A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports :
26 A MAN of 35 who was given a new liver in the world 's first baboon-to-human transplant has died 71 days after the historic op in Pittsburgh , USA .
27 Kelly , of Gainsborough Avenue , Maghull , was given a new liver in an operation at Kings College Hospital a week ago .
28 The compound was given a new number and the biological data declared secret .
29 All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs .
30 However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment .
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