Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some threatened evictions , it should be added , were arranged by collusion between farmers and workers in order to force the hand of local authorities who otherwise would not admit tied cottage tenants to their housing waiting lists . |
| 2 | This patient was , however , excluded from the study since her symptoms were explained by infection with Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 3 | The youths , aged 15 and 16 , were remanded by magistrates at Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , on charges of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 4 | THREE coaches heading for Amsterdam were halted by police after claims that travellers were smoking cannabis , drinking and abusing coach drivers . |
| 5 | But , in a sinister turn of events , firemen were stoned by gangs of youths as they tried to deal with several out-of-control bonfires on Merseyside . |
| 6 | Performances were given by children from Juniper Green Primary School , pupils of Miss Bangham and Mrs. M. Collen on the clarsach . |
| 7 | Performances were given by children from Juniper Green Primary School , pupils of Miss Bangham and Mrs. M. Collen on the clarsach . |
| 8 | Charges of government mismanagement were compounded by reports of corruption among food wholesalers , lorry owners and trawlermen . |
| 9 | The Smiths were regarded by cynics as flower wimps . |
| 10 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 11 | She died in the December of that year , joining her husband in the family grave ; many letters of condolence were received by Ernie at Freegrove Road , including one from Cousin Alf Davidge of Cricklewood — the husband of Benjamin James 's daughter , Bessie . |
| 12 | As the US television service CNN 's transmissions were received by satellite in Baghdad , it was a comparatively straightforward matter to assess the effectiveness of such activities . |
| 13 | The study yielded a group of forty men who were the most powerful in Atlanta , and these were treated by Hunter as Atlanta 's political elite . |
| 14 | In addition , stools were examined by microscopy for ova and parasites , including Cryptosporidium and Isopora . |
| 15 | Bands in the digests were assigned by comparison with Maxam-Gilbert dimethylsulphate-piperidine markers specific for guanine or by comparison with previously published cleavage data . |
| 16 | Yesterday , French farmers were joined by others from Spain , Belgium and Germany marching through Strasbourg behind a milk float loaded with vegetables , milk and wine to a football stadium rally . |
| 17 | Owners from Australia , the United States and Holland already in the province were joined by others from Germany , Switzerland and Great Britain . |
| 18 | On Sept. 21 , the participants were joined by representatives of PICC members , including Japan . |
| 19 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales one or two of the judges were tainted by charges of corruption . |
| 20 | These allegations were dismissed by Delors on Oct. 15 as " pure slander " . |
| 21 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 22 | They were suffering from hypothermia and were flown by helicopter to hospital . |
| 23 | During the year , three posts , Head of Geological Survey , mapping geologist , and marine geologist , were filled by secondees from BGS . |
| 24 | Looking back over Pearson 's historical review , it is hard to believe that Britain 's cities are any more perilous today than those of pre-industrial times , or when they were frequented by gangs of Garotters and Hooligans . |
| 25 | He pointed out , however , that on one definition it had in fact arrived ; but the figures concerned were distorted by developments in North Sea oil . |
| 26 | Suddenly , she felt the need to confide , to be able to tell some other person that when she was not actually working , her mind and heart were dominated by thoughts of Harry . |
| 27 | While Class 5 members held the key military posts , the middle-ranking positions at divisional level were dominated by members of Classes 8 and 11 . |
| 28 | Many of the campaigns were dominated by politicians from West Germany , including , in two out of five cases , the CDU and SPD candidates themselves . |
| 29 | But the last two years of the Carter administration were dominated by events in Iran and Afghanistan . |
| 30 | These , then , are the bare bones of the Aristotelian mechanics and cosmology that were presupposed by contemporaries of Copernicus , and which were utilized in arguments against a moving earth . |