Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] by the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was assured by the SIB that there would be a court martial and XYZ would be charged with rape but that did not happen , he was charged only with being in the married quarter area , fined 14 days wages and demoted in rank to Trooper . |
| 2 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area . |
| 5 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 6 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 7 | I ran sluggishly and on the line I was caught by the East German Olaf Prenzler , the defending champion , shunted back to fifth place and out of the final . |
| 8 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 9 | The old breeds which were absorbed by the MRY included the red pied Hollander of North Holland which a century ago made up 7 per cent of the country 's herd ; the red-and-white Zeeland at 4 per cent ( a Zeeland type is shown in Paul Potter 's painting , The Young Bull ) ; the Drentish from Over-yssel ( 1.5 per cent ) , which was very similar to the Ayrshire of Scotland ; and the red-pied dairy Furnes-Ambacht of Flanders . |
| 10 | Asked in the House of Commons about the allegations , which were repeated by the Sunday Times , UK Prime Minister John Major said that there was no evidence that any country other than Libya was involved in the bombing . |
| 11 | The EC measures , which were criticized by the ANC , appeared to clear the way for a resumption of exports of iron , steel and krugerrands . |
| 12 | The Irminsul was laden with rich sacrificial offerings of wealth , which were plundered by the Franks . |
| 13 | Fortunately the seat cushions and some of the bodies which were examined by the RAF consultant pathologist attached to the AIB investigating team were ultimately shown to contain identifiable products of the explosion , but when the pathologist was about to commence examination of another body it was identified and , without further ado , removed for burial . |
| 14 | Details of the assaults , which were compiled by the US Army Criminal Investigation Command and reported in the press on July 21 , showed that , as had been the case in the Tailhook incident , the military authorities had discouraged victims from lodging official complaints and had shown a reluctance to investigate in instances where an official complaint had been filed . |
| 15 | The fifteen Marton Box cars 27–41 , which were built by the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for the opening of the Marton route , proved to have poor riding qualities on their four-wheeled truck . |
| 16 | Car 4 is one of two small cars — the other was 3 — which were built by the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Company , along with the larger 5 and 6 and trailers 9 and 10 . |
| 17 | In 1828 Hickman appealed to Charles X , king of France , for the collaboration of the king 's medical schools with his experiments on insensibility produced by ‘ introduction of certain gases into the lungs ’ , which were ridiculed by the A.Académie de Médecine . |
| 18 | All patients gave fully informed consent to the studies which were approved by the Harrow Health Authority Ethical Committee . |
| 19 | Many companies run IBM 1401 computers , which were superseded by the IBM 360 in the early 1970s . |
| 20 | Goleniewski had left behind in Warsaw copies of some 300 important intelligence documents which were retrieved by the CIA and brought to America . |
| 21 | In the High Street is the 18th. century Blanket hall , which was built by the Witney Blanket Weavers Company for weighing and measuring the locally made blankets . |
| 22 | The findings showed the Anglo-Saxon nave was as wide and as long and almost as high as the present one , which was built by the Normans . |
| 23 | This new settlement represents a net increase of $25 million over the previously-agreed total [ see ED nos. 45 and 46 ] , which was rejected by the Alaska House of Representatives as an inadequate reflection of Exxon 's criminal liability . |
| 24 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels on Aug. 27 were outspoken on Serbia 's responsibility for the conflict ( a feeling which was echoed by the United States State Department on Aug. 29 ) . |
| 25 | The British study , which was supported by the ESRC , was completed in 1988 and , with others , will contribute to the building of an international database on secondary school teachers . |
| 26 | Guntiarius appears again as ruler of a Burgundian kingdom in the Rhineland which was destroyed by the Huns in c. 435 . |
| 27 | In particular , it will further extend the use of in-depth discussion groups which were pioneered in an earlier study of popular vales for open space which was funded by the ESRC and the Countryside commission between 1985-7 . |
| 28 | Where necessity demanded , as in French Indo-China , Japan cooperated with the colonial power , which was represented by the Vichy regime . |
| 29 | In Thomas ' and Potter 's article it was the leaf length , not the plant weight , which was represented by the Richards functions . |
| 30 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |