Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 2 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 3 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 4 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 5 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 6 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 7 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |