Example sentences of "was [vb pp] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | PAUL DAWSON , who works in the design office at Capenhurst , was designated a Whitworth Scholar at an award ceremony held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' London headquarters . |
| 2 | Almost unprecedented in the independent film world , Dream On was given a London premiere at the Odeon , Leicester Square . |
| 3 | ‘ I was given a Beatles compilation tape as a lad and was immediately hooked . |
| 4 | He claimed that the commander of Silvan Gendarmerie Post proposed to him , with a combination of threats and bribes , that he should assassinate Mehmet Menge , Diyarbakir SHP ( Social Democratic Populiats Party ) Board Member , and that he was given a Kalashnikov rifle and hand grenades . |
| 5 | SOUL singer Mary Wells was given a Hollywood farewell — with superstars staging a Motown revue at her funeral . |
| 6 | At the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' conference in the US , Henrietta Green was given a Julia Child Cookbook Award for A Glorious Harvest ( Sedgwood Press ) . |
| 7 | Danny Begara , who had the job eight years ago , was given a Mercedes , for example . ’ |
| 8 | On an outside wall of this was painted a Madonna and Child . |
| 9 | Didanosine , which is manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb , was granted a US licence last October for use in patients with advanced HIV infection who were intolerant of zidovudine . |
| 10 | In 1909 he was made a KC . |
| 11 | Straight after the Open he was offered a Rolls Royce to go out and celebrate his win . |
| 12 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 13 | The committee was told a Kincardine Bridge replacement was likely within the next few years , but was a separate issue and all transport organisations plus the Scottish Office agreed a new crossing of the Forth near the existing bridge was essential . |
| 14 | or , Thomas ( c. 1784–1818 ) , prizefighter , was born a Virginia slave , and is reputed to have won his freedom in the American prize-ring . |
| 15 | She was certainly a true daughter of a remarkably colourful family , for she was born a Saunderson , a line of famous Protestant fighters who were sent to settle in Ireland in the seventeenth century to quell the local rebels . |
| 16 | I was called a Judas . |
| 17 | Stephen Wade , 41 , of Macclesfield , died after he was slipped a Micky Finn . |
| 18 | In 1963 he was appointed a J.P . |
| 19 | Indeed it was used to teach such pilots as Flt Sub-Lt Warneford who was awarded a Victoria Cross for shooting down the first Zeppelin . |
| 20 | He was awarded a Sc.D. by Cambridge in 1947 , and in 1949 was made a professor of the University of Aix-Marseilles . |
| 21 | Winning a fellowship of the University of Wales in 1925 , he went on to work with ( Sir ) W. L. Bragg [ q.v. ] in Manchester , where he was awarded a Ph.D . |
| 22 | She graduated from Smith summa cum laude , was awarded a Fulbright grant to study at Newnham College , Cambridge , and arrived there in October 1955 . |
| 23 | In 1894 he was awarded a London county council scholarship with distinctions , which took him to the Kenmont Gardens Science School ( 1894–7 ) and in 1896 he was awarded an evening exhibition to the Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 24 | In 1893 she took a University of London B.Sc. ; she was awarded a D.Sc . |
| 25 | at Würzburg University in 1902 , and then studied under Sir William Ramsay [ q.v. ] at University College London , and was awarded a D.Sc . |
| 26 | He was awarded a Heriot bursary to Edinburgh University in 1906 , and in 1911 took his MA degree with first-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy , and also the B.Sc. |
| 27 | During World War I McLachlan served in the Special Brigade involved in gas warfare , for which he was awarded a DCM . |
| 28 | In 1955 he was appointed CBE and was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Birmingham . |
| 29 | She was awarded a D.Lit. in 1928 by London University . |
| 30 | Sir Michael was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1990 New Year 's Honours List . |