Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result I was ridiculed by the other children . |
| 2 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 3 | This sentiment appeared to be accurately echoed in the terms of reference of the enquiry into primary school methods which were announced by the Secretary of State in December 1991 . |
| 4 | Dusan Plut , chair of the party , had said earlier that he wished the Greens to " act as a constructive opposition " but later agreed to join the coalition which was led by the outgoing Prime Minister , Janez Drnovsek of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDS ) . |
| 5 | Have you had a copy of , dare I say it , the tabulation which was produced by the panel , which summarized the various er submissions , and if I just read them to you . |
| 6 | Pat Goodman , head of New Zealand 's Goodman Fielder Wattie food group , has withdrawn from the fray in Britain after buying a stake in Ranks Hovis McDougall , mounting a bid which was stalled by the Office of Fair Trading then pocketing a profit by selling his shares to Sir James Goldsmith and partners . |
| 7 | The administration of President Frei ( 1964-70 ) initiated a land reform programme which was accelerated by the Popular Unity government of President Allende ( 1970-73 ) . |
| 8 | The header contains information about the writer ( e.g. sex , age , handedness etc ) , the date the sample was collected , the style of writing used ( e.g. lower case , upper case , cursive ) , and one or more sentences indicating the script which was written by the subject . |
| 9 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 10 | Among the many places to visit are : the 12th-century abbeys of Jedburgh and Melrose ; Abbotsford House , the stately home of Sir Walter Scott which was financed by the Waverley novels ; and the 16th-century Thirlestone Castle , home to a fine collection of china , furniture and paintings and the Borders Country Life Museum . |
| 11 | That is precisely the background to the study which was conducted by the four chiefs of defence staff , they were asking that kind of question and I 'll now ask the Group Captain to respond . |
| 12 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 13 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 14 | A report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education in 1931 ( The Primary School ) contained words which were repeated by the Plowden Report in 1967 , " What a wise and good parent would desire for his own children , that a nation must desire for all children . " |
| 15 | LORD LAWSON was in charge of the Treasury before Norman Lamont and is blamed for the boom which was followed by the present bust . |
| 16 | All the others before it will have hierarchical actions , each setting up the subsidiary search which was solved by the following rule . |
| 17 | In order to combat the growing deficit the IMF had insisted on cuts in government spending and liberalization measures for trade and investment , demands which were rejected by the Congress . |
| 18 | It follows the discovery of a shortfall in the Anfield books which was spotted by the club accountant . |
| 19 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 20 | ‘ Ihre Kameraden , ’ said a soldier who was sitting by the window . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 22 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 23 | The pope , who had agreed to be godfather , had sent a Legate , Cardinal Patrizzi , to represent him at the christening , though the ceremony itself was performed by the Archbishop of Paris . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ I answered , glad to have his attention , ‘ those two messengers who were killed by the Maillotins . |
| 25 | Naples-born Liliana Ferraro , 48 , will replace Judge Giovanni Falcone who was killed by the mob . |
| 26 | ‘ Through me the defendants tender their sincere apologies to the plaintiff for the distress she was caused by the publication of the article . ’ |
| 27 | Following 13 years ' deliberation by a special Vatican commission , Pope John Paul II on Oct. 31 formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei , the Italian astronomer , mathematician and physicist who was forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the earth orbited the sun . |
| 28 | The Dhofaris who were neglected by the previous ruler are now enjoying the fruits of extensive agricultural development , so that the region once famed for providing the ancient world with frankincense may soon be a major source of food for other Gulf states . |
| 29 | The doorway itself was framed by the network of wooden scaffolding which covered most of the front of the church . |
| 30 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |