Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists were granted an interview with His Grace , the Bishop of Danu . |
| 2 | On these occasions FANY and ATS drivers were given an allowance of six shillings a night with which they were expected to fend for themselves . |
| 3 | A similar pattern emerged from a second kind of monitoring — rhyme monitoring — in which subjects were given an instruction like Press the button whenever you hear a word rhyming with ‘ bread ’ . |
| 4 | After a variable period of fasting recording , depending on the assessment of the occurrence of a phase III , subjects were given an egg and mayonnaise sandwich , to stimulate the fed pattern . |
| 5 | Four grey eyes were demanding an explanation . |
| 6 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 7 | Thus the words supposedly uttered by a despairing king , just before he turned his face to the wall to die , are an immediate symbol of the reaction of very many of those on whom Mary Queen of Scots was to make an impact , in her lifetime and thereafter . |
| 8 | Rick 's method of dealing with these conflicting images was to hold an evening parents ' workshop in which he outlined the rationale and aims of the new mathematics curriculum for the intake year . |
| 9 | Er the Noble Lord is not in a position to say that the overwhelming erm number of parents support not going grant maintained , because until this year , until the new Act of Parliament er came into place , er not all parents were given an opportunity to answer that question er it is now er necessary for every single governing body to return to that question on an annual basis . |
| 10 | Huddled in one corner of the first-floor sun lounge , the remains of the committee of Literary Lionisers were holding an emergency meeting before facing their sundry charges . |
| 11 | Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court . |
| 12 | Lord Pearce said , ‘ The only reasonable inference from the regular course of dealing over so long a period is that the buyers were evincing an acceptance of , and a readiness to be bound by , the printed conditions of whose existence they were well aware although they had not troubled to read them . ’ |
| 13 | Co-ordinators were given an update on recently published crime figures and a general briefing with emphasis on the importance of locking outbuildings to prevent the theft of things like power tools , lawn mowers and fishing tackle . |
| 14 | At the end of the conference the participants were granted an audience with the Pope . |
| 15 | The economic growth of the pre-war years was generating an increase in the strength of the middle classes whose concern was to dismantle the restrictions of the old regime . |
| 16 | His principal achievement during these years was to create an alliance of small coastal tribes to offset the military might of the inland Ashanti . |
| 17 | I was a struggling musician at the time , but my ambitions were to win an Oscar , a Nobel prize and a Grammy . ’ |
| 18 | TWO German police officers were given an insight into the workings of their Welsh counterparts yesterday . |
| 19 | The eastern solution to Germany 's problems was to create an area of unified language , unified identity , unified wealth and settlement , a bulwark against the barbarism and poverty of the Poles . |
| 20 | The basic objective of these writers was to project an image of public law . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S firefighters were awarded an inflation-breaking 4.9pc pay rise yesterday . |
| 22 | FIREFIGHTERS were awarded an above-inflation 4.9 per cent pay rise yesterday . |
| 23 | Whilst most of the world 's leading female tennis players were enjoying an end of season holiday . |
| 24 | Videla immediately sent an open letter to the Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Martin Bonnet , claiming that the armed forces were owed an apology , and vowing to carry on " the struggle for the moral vindication of the war we won against subversion " . |
| 25 | When I worked in the prison I found out that one of the other teachers was having an affair with this prisoner . |
| 26 | We welcomed the news that the Indonesian authorities were mounting an investigation , which would have to be carried out promptly , fully and fairly . |
| 27 | These disciplines were to prove an index of the strength of imperial rule . |
| 28 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 29 | In a recent survey carried out on over 300 pupils aged between 10 and 11 years , when pupils were shown an extract from the Yorkshire television series " How we used to live " , only 40 per cent of pupils identified black and white archive film as representing " the past " . |
| 30 | Some of the problems associated with large-scale privatization became clear on Feb. 28 when Anatoly Chubais , the chair of the Committee for Property Management with responsibility for implementing privatization , revealed at a news conference that prosecutors were investigating an incident of " privatization by nomenklatura " ( former communist party officials ) . |