Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outgoing Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Shakurulla Mirsaidov , was given the newly created post of Vice-President . |
| 2 | Van der Merwe , also a liberal , was given the newly created job of preparing the National Party for the forthcoming constitutional negotiations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Paradoxically the singer was voted the worst dressed , least fanciable female and worst film actress and best female solo artist and most fanciable female . |
| 5 | Peel , reviewing the development of the social sciences , suggests that " sociology was made a reasonably unified subject by the Americans who welded together very diverse streams " , which , by the 1940s , " was being synthesised into a mainstream of theory to which most ongoing research was related " . |
| 6 | Although a vote was not taken — it not having any constitutional value — the mood of the meeting was judged an even split for buying out . |
| 7 | By this , he and his diplomatic agents maintained , was meant the fully implemented terms of the 1259 agreement . |