Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] was [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time towards the end of 1943 I was approached by the US Office of War Information to see if I would join their staff as adviser on Burmese subjects and language . |
| 2 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 3 | This one was built by the East Somerset Railway Company between 1858–62 . |
| 4 | His old one was stolen by the Czech secret police in less happy times . |
| 5 | In the hope of forestalling this he was urged by the Japanese to retreat to his stronghold of Manchuria and establish himself as ruler of an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese tutelage . |
| 6 | In this he was encouraged by the Unitarian minister Mr Tarrant and a new friend , the literary critic James Ashcroft Noble . |
| 7 | In this he was helped by the clergy who made voluntary contributions to the value of twelve pence in every mark , of the annual value of their benefices . |
| 8 | In 1903 it was deserted by the master stevedores , who formed their own association and in 1913 a new organization came into being , the Employers ' Association of the Port of Liverpool , which stood aloof from the National Maritime Board until it was reconstituted after the first world war . |
| 9 | The existing building dates from the 1740s when it became an oil mill for linseed In 1808 it was bought by the British Copper Company and was used for producing copper sheets In 1860 it was purchased by the East London Water Company and rebuilt as a pumping station . |
| 10 | Like the British he was fascinated by the thought of obedience willingly given ; hence his belief that satyagraha worked because it changed the opponent 's mind about the issue at stake . |
| 11 | Thus in Reg. v. Pestano [ 1981 ] Crim.L.R. 397 it was held by the Court of Appeal that the credibility of evidence given by a witness inconsistent with a statement previously made by him was a matter for the jury to consider , subject to a proper warning by the judge as to the weight to be attached to the evidence . |
| 12 | This kind of rapport is difficult to achieve and it entails an entirely different relationship between the informant and his pupil from that which was assumed by the anthropologists of seventy years ago . |
| 13 | This concern displays a deeper understanding of the contradictions in science and technology than that which was articulated by the anti-science movement of the 1970s whose antecedents lay in the anti-culture movement of the 1960s . |
| 14 | and in essence it 's been our , our prior aim to keep to that which was agreed by the council back in nineteen eighty six . |
| 15 | The NUC formulated a national unification programme in early 1991 which was endorsed by the KMT in March [ see p. 38098 ] . |
| 16 | She winced , surprised to find how much she was hurt by the stinging acid in his voice , even though she knew she 'd brought it on herself . |
| 17 | But the welfare of home students , as they were known after 1889 , was her particular concern ; in 1894 she was appointed by the AEW as their principal , a post which she held on a voluntary basis until 1921 . |
| 18 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
| 19 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 20 | One of the specialist relocation companies , Merrill Lynch Relocation Management International , sponsored a ‘ Study Of Employee Relocation Policies Among Major UK Companies ’ in 1984 which was conducted by the Harris Research Centre by a poll among ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ . |
| 21 | Tens of thousands of Serbs took part in an anti-war demonstration in Belgrade on May 31 which was organized by the parliamentary opposition parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party . |
| 22 | Pursuant to an order made under the Allied Forces Act 1940 he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police . |
| 23 | In 1975 it was acquired by the Sumitomo Group following Ataka 's bankruptcy and donated to the city of Osaka , together with the money to build what was to become the Museum of Oriental Ceramics . |
| 24 | In the draft budget for 1992 which was approved by the Cabinet on Sept. 4 spending on defence was set to rise by 6 per cent , bringing it to 14,800 million shekels ( US$4,770 million ) . |
| 25 | Despite a barrage of criticism Mr Rees pressed ahead with plans for Theatr Clwyd in Mold and in 1976 it was opened by the Queen . |
| 26 | At sixteen he was seduced by the beautiful wife of a Russian general and then by her six handmaids one after the other . |
| 27 | In 1918 he was commissioned by the Canadian government to record the naval base at Halifax , Nova Scotia . |
| 28 | When Lloyd George became prime minister in December 1916 he was backed by the Unionists in a coalition government . |
| 29 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 30 | A graduate of the Red Army Academy in 1950 he was recruited by the KGB four years later but first came to prominence in 1961 as one of the architects of Fidel Castro 's Direccion General de Inteligencia . |