Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in Re Hammond and Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 , arbitrators were designated by the parties ' agreement to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by an outgoing tenant of a market garden to his landlord . |
| 2 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 3 | In a number of schools there remain underlying — and sometimes still overt — conflicts that were provoked by the Teachers ' Action of 1986–7 . |
| 4 | Approvals were made by the Bondholders ' Committee , usually as a retrospective notification at their Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 6 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 7 | The king 's needs , however , were challenged by the popes ' own obligations to reward their growing army of servants . |
| 8 | In view of the history of rural housing it was therefore somewhat ironic to find in 1976 that changes to the tied cottage legislation were opposed by the farmers ' lobby on the grounds that there were insufficient safeguards against local authorities refusing to meet their housing responsibilities ! |
| 9 | Secondly , we were struck by the Scots ' awareness of the beauty of their own culture and history , this well reflected in the music that they showed us . |
| 10 | These zones were identified by the observers ' fairly casual assessment of the dominant species in each locality . |
| 11 | In the UK one of the few recent studies of the impact of educational innovation was undertaken by the Schools ' Council 's Impact and Take-Up Project . |
| 12 | America was fascinated by the Russians ' presence in their prettiest city , and duly ignored the real significance of what was going on . |
| 13 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 14 | The restoration of the clock-case was done by the Museums ' furniture conservator , while the mechanisms of the clock were repaired and restored by , head of the engineering conservation section . |
| 15 | This decision was made by the patients ' doctors ; neither patient responded , but both have been included in this analysis . |
| 16 | Tukalo — ‘ he would have been a hero , ’ noted Rutherford sympathetically — did not enjoy such fortune and was engulfed by the visitors ' defence who pirated possession to clear . |
| 17 | This plan was affected by the teachers ' dispute which took place during the main development period from 1984 to 1986 . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
| 19 | Although the structure plan was compiled mostly by a group of consultants , it was updated by the Islands ' planning authority and , since it does bear the name of the Council , one would assume that it mirrors the ideas of the local bureaucracy . |
| 20 | After the war , his career was interrupted by the Allies ' investigative tribunals and partly blocked in Berlin , Vienna , and Salzburg by the machinations of Furtwängler . |
| 21 | The scheme was administered by the Brewers ' Society and involved the exchange of some 1,000 pubs over a five year period ( source : British Drink Profile , Halliday Associates , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | This point was echoed by the farmworkers ' district officer for Suffolk , Margaret Holmes , who said that those on low pay in rural areas were always worst hit by fuel tax increases . |
| 23 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 24 | Walesa 's call was supported by the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club , a pro-Walesa parliamentary caucus , and by the Centre Alliance and the Green Party , but was opposed by the Democratic Party and the Democratic Left parliamentary groups which argued that the dissolution issue should be broached only after the electoral law and constitutional amendments had been adopted . |
| 25 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |
| 26 | The nature of the relationship suggested to McNab that the size of the home-range was determined by the animals ' food requirements and the hypothesis was strengthened by the fact that , for their body sizes , specialist feeders had particularly large home-ranges ( Box 3 ) . |
| 27 | He was backed by the Brewers ' Association of Scotland , which said the real price increases on the pint across the bars of pubs would be considerably more than the Chancellor 's claimed increase of 1.5p per pint . |