Example sentences of "was [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 2 | Earlier this year she was given the all clear and joined Dreamflight as a helper . |
| 3 | Chalmers had been forced to miss the Sunday practice on account of a bruised right thigh but he was given the all clear after yesterday 's training to renew rivalries with the Welsh — the country against whom he was first capped four years ago . |
| 4 | Farr was given the all clear at the start of this year and her next aim , after the wedding , is to get back to the tour where , in 1988 , she demonstrated promise with a third-placed finish in the Mazda Classic and a 41st position on the order of merit . |
| 5 | Day after day , he was given the same old put-off by the stage doorman about Viola not being there . |
| 6 | Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school . |
| 7 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 8 | Werner Moke , the head of the Dresden city branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) at the time , was given the same suspended prison sentence and fined DM3,600 ( US$2,300 ) . |
| 9 | The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled . |
| 10 | The intention was to publicise the many victories achieved in his long reign and the generous largesses given when celebrating his good fortune . |
| 11 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 12 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 13 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |
| 14 | He was representing the former Lords of the Manor at the pageant . |
| 15 | Kemp was discharged the same day , but Raynsford — the more seriously injured — was kept in by doctors until Monday . |
| 16 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 17 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 18 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 19 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 20 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 21 | Early in 1983 the new Bomber Command Hall extension had been completed and Sugar was moved the few yards to take pride of place at the entrance to the exhibition , where she still is today . |
| 22 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 23 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 24 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 25 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 26 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |
| 27 | Sam was cleaning the same damn glass he had been cleaning when I came in . |
| 28 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 29 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 30 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |