Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters of Pity were in business . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |
| 3 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 4 | It was intended that assessment was made through observation , practical work and discussion during normal lessons . |
| 5 | It is very unlikely it was intended that way . |
| 6 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 7 | Scotland must win the Malta game by a convincing margin , yet Roxburgh could be without McCoist , the scorer of 41 goals for Rangers this season , and Gordon Durie , who was withdrawn last week because of injury . |
| 8 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 9 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 10 | An international committee of experts was formed this group was later reduced to three specialists to supervise the Brussels-based Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage , which conducted the actual work . |
| 11 | New journal : The Institute of Management , which was formed this week by the merger of two previous management bodies , has launched Professional Manager , a bi-monthly journal for its 75,000 members . |
| 12 | A NEW think-tank , Demos , was formed last night aimed at encouraging fresh political ideas that are independent of both Right and Left . |
| 13 | The Janata Dal was formed last year in an attempt to unite the national opposition . |
| 14 | The original Community Care Support Force was formed last year to help both health and local authorities prepare for implementation . |
| 15 | Today 's case brings the number of successful prosecutions in the Thames region to thirty four since the N R A was formed last year . |
| 16 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 17 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 18 | After the coup , absolute power rested with the military junta , and increasingly with Pinochet , who in June 1974 was designated Supreme Chief of State , and in December President of the Republic ( although he did not formally assume that title until March 1981 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 20 | ‘ Say Markham is paying Wheeler or Wheeler is paying Markham for services rendered and say Paul was implicated either way , might not Rosamund know about it , if it involved money going into or out of any of Wheeler 's accounts ? ’ |
| 21 | THE horror of life in Serb concentration camps was exposed last night in a harrowing ITN film which showed a new Holocaust in the making . |
| 22 | Its jangly ‘ little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese ’ song was heard all summer long , and we used to find its nest among the ryegrass . |
| 23 | An expensive crunch was heard that day , and the dismantled aircraft can now be seen at Socata 's Tarbes factory , ready for a total rebuild . |
| 24 | Our international standing as managing agents and consultants in energy efficiency and renewable energy was highlighted this year when the International Energy Agency appointed ETSU as its overall manager for the analysis and dissemination of renewable energy technologies . |
| 25 | AEA 's ability to tackle unique nuclear recovery tasks was highlighted this year when we designed , built and operated a special plant to recover the nuclear material from unused fuel made for the German THTR reactor . |
| 26 | The severity of the depression was highlighted this week by the decision of the Automobile Association to pull out of the retail package holiday market , creating 400 redundancies . |
| 27 | The need for low cost housing in East Cleveland generally was highlighted this week with the publication of the results of a housing needs survey . |
| 28 | The extent of the problems faced by students at the poly was highlighted last week when it was revealed that some students were living in cars , and others had to turn down places because of the lack of affordable housing . |
| 29 | Different electoral systems were used in different states , there was limited popular interest , and votes tended to go to national political parties . |
| 30 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |