Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] given [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FLOOD-hit caravan parks on the North Wales coast were given a £175,000 fillip last night . |
| 2 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 3 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 4 | ‘ The club were given a deadline of November 29 1991 for confirmation of the terms agreed with their agents , but the agents have recently confirmed that the club no longer wish to purchase the property . ’ |
| 5 | He also claimed that player-coach Newberry was given an early bath for ‘ questioning a decision ’ . |
| 6 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 7 | ‘ A journalist was given a briefing by the council 's acting Press Officer , Nick Clayton , on the general Scottish Office guidelines for dealing with child sexual abuse … . |
| 8 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 9 | However , the Supreme Soviet was to decide the strength and composition of armed forces and Interior Ministry troops , while the President was given the right to take decisions on the use of Interior Ministry troops in emergency situations . |
| 10 | THE official launch of WINCH , the Wirral Initiative for Needy Children , at Tranmere Rovers Football Club was given a healthy start , thanks to £1,000 donation from BNFL . |
| 11 | The turning point came in 1972 when Ken Mentle dug deep into his pocket and bought a deluxe Portakabin for directors and players , and the Supporters ' Club was given the drain end as its new home . |
| 12 | After lunch in the restaurant Her Majesty was given a guided tour of the house by Director-General Angus Stirling which included opportunities to meet the donor , Mr. Henry Harpur-Crewe . |
| 13 | In an open letter to the government , 72 senior expatriate scientists representing Britain 's ‘ brain drain ’ gave warning of severe economic and social consequences unless scientific research was given a higher priority . |
| 14 | He told staff yesterday that the university had more staff whose research was given the top grade five rating than all the other Scottish universities put together . |
| 15 | Councillors were jeered and heckled as they emerged and the mayor was given the Nazi salute as he drove off . |
| 16 | Each tooth was given a score of 0 , 1 , 2 , 6 , or 8 depending on the degree of periodontal disease ; the index was the arithmetic average of all the teeth that were scored . |
| 17 | As I happened to discover casually ( not a great discovery ) , the same pamphlet was given a new frontispiece and a new tit ] e in 1747 . |
| 18 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 19 | Each practice was given the results of the study for all their participating patients after the study had been completed in that practice . |
| 20 | FORD 'S Mondeo car was given a huge boost yesterday when the car rental company Hertz placed a £10 million order . |
| 21 | The city tecnol technological college was given the right , has given the right of education , a quality of education undreamed of by a n by the people who live in the inner cities of , particularly the Asian population of opposed by the Labour Party , a Labour Party committed to scrapping and closing the C T C's and if they ca n't get |
| 22 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 23 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , exactly a year after the Lockerbie bombing [ see pp. 26409-10 ] , a Palestinian identified as a suspect in the crime was given a life sentence by a court in Uppsala , Sweden , having been with three others with terrorist offences in Sweden , Denmark and the Netherlands in 1985-86 [ see p. 37137 ] . |
| 24 | Prior to the council , Lawyer was given a paper proclaiming him head chief of the Nez Perce . |
| 25 | The Council 's longstanding interest in the Scottish Steel Industry was given a higher priority by the decision of British Steel to close the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig in early 1991 and the indications were that the rest of Ravenscraig would cease operations in 1994 . |
| 26 | A cat suffering from alopecia was given an injection of a cortico steriod and a dog brought in by a near-hysterical owner was found to be only badly bruised . |
| 27 | In west Belfast , the American delegation was given a lively reception with traditional music before retiring for private discussions with Mr Adams , Mr McGuinness and two other Sinn Fein members . |
| 28 | It should be noted that , while the budgets and weight of food items were calculated per prisoner , this did not mean that each inmate was given an individually weighed portion : the uncooked food was simply weighed in bulk on leaving the stores for the kitchen . |
| 29 | In F C Gardner Ltd v Beresford ( 1978 ) , the employee was given no pay increase for two years . |
| 30 | When she set sail for her homeland in 1952 Eva and another Australian girl were given the job of looking after twelve children from the Fairbridge Society on the voyage . |