Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 2 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 3 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 4 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 5 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 6 | It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully . |
| 7 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 8 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 9 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |
| 10 | Biblical objections were wheeled out by the theological faculty at Uppsala against a young scholar , Nils Celsius , who had tried to minimize them . |
| 11 | A waterspout burst over the village in June 1888 , washing soil from the surrounding hills and depositing mud and boulders in the streets — ‘ pots , pans , chairs , stools , mats , and a host of smaller household goods were swept out by the current and deposited in the village pond ’ . |
| 12 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 13 | But the inexperienced side , with four youths on board , measured up well and only were edged out by the winning goal four minutes from the end . |
| 14 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 15 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 16 | Allied to the recommendations contained in the Seabrook Report extensive work was carried out by the Legal Aid and Fees Committee for the substantial extension of standard fees . |
| 17 | The most comprehensive study of US media coverage of the riots was carried out by the famous Kerner Commission ( Kerner , 1968 ) , which examined the style and content of television and newspaper reports for 1967 . |
| 18 | Legislation requiring the registration of houses taking children for adoption followed , but respectable working class women resented this inspection , especially when it was carried out by the Poor Law Relieving Officer . |
| 19 | An airlift of 14,087 Ethiopian Jews — widely known as Falashas ( a name they rejected ) — was carried out by the Israeli authorities on May 24-25 , in anticipation of the fall of the Ethiopian government . |
| 20 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 21 | The return of the army was carried out by the new defence minister Manuel Azana — ; he was determined to break the political autonomy of the army . |
| 22 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 23 | Though the election was carried out by the usual X-vote system which provided scope for tactical voting and complaints about vote splitting , it was generally accepted as a crushing defeat for Sunningdale . |
| 24 | Is he aware that a similar campaign was carried out by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) against trust hospitals in England , which have now delivered more patient care , cut waiting lists and been innovative in the service that they offer to patients ? |
| 25 | The study , based on thousands of cases in Britain and the US , was carried out by the Aids-prevention charity , Lifeshield Foundation . |
| 26 | Detectives believe this attack was carried out by the same man who raped a student from Somerville college two months ago in public toilets in the city centre . |
| 27 | Work was carried out by the Scottish Conservation Projects Trust , working on behalf of Sustrans , the cycling charity which campaigns for ‘ sustainable transport in our cities ’ . |
| 28 | So a small-scale inquiry was carried out by the Welsh Consumer Council in connection with our report , to survey the availability of credit to Welsh rural shoppers in the centres they would use . |
| 29 | This was bought out by the private cleaning firm BET , which then had to compete with other firms for the contracts to clean schools . |
| 30 | And then , finally , out of sight but only fifty or sixty yards from this room in the field next the garden , there lies buried the main street of the old village that was wiped out by the Black Death . |