Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 2 | The speech received much applause , and my remarks about the regalia were given prominence in the next day 's papers . |
| 3 | Three trainees were given instruction in geological map preparation and report writing using field data collected during the 1989–90 field season . |
| 4 | In advance of the June election the Pasok administration attempted to strengthen its position through political patronage , with the result that , according to ND , over 90,000 people were given jobs in the public sector during the first six months of 1989 . |
| 5 | He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts . |
| 6 | In March food supplies purchased by the Commissariat of War for the Red Army were given priority in evacuation at the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk over ARA famine stocks . |
| 7 | I , and then later my secretary , were given offices in this secular building , as the committee agreed this would help meet the pastoral needs of the community . |
| 8 | 81 Hampdens , Whitleys and Wellingtons from 3 , 4 and 5 Groups were given targets in Berlin . |
| 9 | Most of the ex-municipal cars were accommodated in the former part , but Walthamstow and the three companies were given numbers in the 20005 above the highest L.C.C . |
| 10 | We were given lodgings in the gatehouse and were virtually kept prisoner as the king and the court , as well as the great cardinal , moved into residence . |
| 11 | were given representation in the Patriotic Front , the PLO refused to reciprocate by granting the Communist Party representation on the PLO executive . |
| 12 | They began their lessons in Gaelic and were taught English in their first year quickly mastering the new language . |
| 13 | There were supposed irregularities in the cheques , some of which had been endorsed over to third parties allegedly in breach of authority , so the administrators issued but did not serve a protective writ . |
| 14 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 15 | Foreign companies would be able to remit part of their profits abroad , and were promised compensation in the event of " unavoidable " nationalization ; they would be given tax concessions during the initial five years of operation if they were involved in high-technology industries , resource development or infrastructure construction . |
| 16 | Some staff were offered employment in the sales offices which were geographically closest to their regional office . |
| 17 | The chief headmen , who were called mudaliyars in the Low Country and ratemahatmayas in Kandyan districts were persons of high status and much wealth . |
| 18 | From 1824 to 1839 , he was in charge of a penal colony on Moreton Bay , Queensland , and when the colony was made a free settlement in 1842 , the town and river on which it stands were called Brisbane in his honour . |
| 19 | Participating countries were allocated SDRs in proportion to their quotas , these allocations being known as their ‘ net cumulative allocations ’ . |
| 20 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 21 | The 36 would-be refugees — including Serbians , Croatians and Bosnians — were refused asylum in Britain and deported back to other countries , mainly Belgium and Germany , under the so-called ‘ safe third country ’ rule . |
| 22 | Other members of the family were found niches in this empire . |
| 23 | Other members of the family were found niches in this empire . |
| 24 | In that case assets were transferred to a company and there was then created a settlement by the transferor for the benefit of his children : the trustees were allotted shares in the company . |
| 25 | The pillar of the British social security system was national insurance , introduced in 1911 , but health insurance did not cover dependants , and married women could only join the scheme if they were insured workers in their own right . |
| 26 | Travis was breathing hard , and there were banked fires in his eyes , yet his voice was coolly controlled . |
| 27 | Tigers were declared vermin in China in the 1950s , and were slaughtered in droves not just because they were dangerous but also because they were valuable . |
| 28 | The two alliances were ascribed territories in which to produce their social structures , political institutions , coercive bodies , informal and interpersonal networks of maintaining influence , and more clearly defined hegemonic cultures . |
| 29 | We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war . |
| 30 | British infantry advanced in their protective wake with relative safety ; German soldiers were taken prisoner in their hundreds , while others , astonished and terrified , fled . |