Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |
| 2 | Two of my constituents were awarded by the courts compensation for damage that a burglar had done in their house . |
| 3 | Some of my members were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers there and it brought a lump to my throat , but that 's what it 's all about , solidarity . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe my players were overawed by the packed crowd — our best ever . |
| 5 | My musings were interrupted by the thunder of hooves and wild cries ; the Hulton herd was approaching . |
| 6 | When the House of Commons considered the matter in 1953 , its views were affected by the fact that they were unaware of any evidence of pressure for change from the churches themselves . |
| 7 | The Muslim Brotherhood was less concerned with the liberation of Palestine than with the establishment of an Islamic state by peaceful means , possibly as a part of Jordan where its activities were tolerated by the authorities . |
| 8 | We have every reason to believe that the club was infiltrated by the enemy , and that most of its activities were guided by the hand of the enemy for the purposes of causing disunity within the community and discrediting the name of Nelson Mandela and the organisation of which he is the leader . |
| 9 | Her ankles were scratched by the brittle ancient stems , her fingers scored . |
| 10 | He said that the money should be used for job creation projects in 1993 with a clear indication as to which projects were funded by the levy . . |
| 11 | Her reveries were interrupted by the entrance of two female SS officers . |
| 12 | Her eyes were drawn by the stone immediately . |
| 13 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 14 | Immediately offered to the Victoria & Albert Museum for £40,000 , the museum , although interested , was unable to purchase it as its funds were exhausted by the purchase of two huge albums of eighteenth-century architectural drawings from Elton Hall . |
| 15 | In 1847 its functions were assumed by the new County Courts . |
| 16 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 17 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |
| 18 | He was too big , altogether too masculine — she could see the roughened texture of his tanned skin , and her senses were invaded by the subtle fragrance of his male cologne . |
| 19 | Although their car and many of their belongings were destroyed by the bomb , they said they would continue their honeymoon . |
| 20 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 21 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 22 | Its powers were extended by the Housing Acts of 1894 , 1900 and 1903 , and also by the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1909 , the first major housing measure not introduced by Conservatives . |
| 23 | Behind them their live comrades were shoving to force the pile of bodies through into the drawing-room to free the doorway ; meanwhile the Collector and the Sikhs were shoving with all their might to hold the bodies in place , although their efforts were hindered by the protruding bayonets . |
| 24 | Even without their two biggest forwards , Alan Watt and Shade Munro , GH-K competed well in the forward exchanges where brothers Fergus and Murray Wallace excelled , though their efforts were matched by the whole-hearted David McIvor . |
| 25 | Small groups of men at Bristol or Glasgow might succeed in obtaining advances in wages ; more often than not their efforts were countered by the employers and it was noted by the Board of Trade that disputes ended when " crews were obtained elsewhere " or " seamen were replaced by others at a reduced rate " . |
| 26 | The Labour Party began its own Book Service at the end of 1939 in an attempt to provide the alternative , but its efforts were hindered by the war and could not attract a fraction of the readership achieved by the Left Book Club . |
| 27 | Their teams were chosen by the national selectors . |
| 28 | Her studies were interrupted by the opportunity to go into local politics , from which she has never looked back . |
| 29 | The people died young , and their brains were transported by the androids here , to the station , where they were used to augment a living computer called Pool . |
| 30 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |