Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 2 | Indian semi-slaves were shipped in by the British and most of these stayed on after their contract ended , bringing their families over and settling down , becoming small shopkeepers , craftsmen and bureaucrats in the colonial administration . |
| 3 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 4 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 5 | In reply to Trevelyan 's comments about this land being sufficient for the new building , Hall made the astonishing remark that this could only be determined after the plans were sent in by the competing architects . |
| 6 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 7 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 8 | The international civil rights group was called in by a province-wide body of Protestant community leaders , the Ulster Community Action Network ( UCAN ) . |
| 9 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 10 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 11 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 12 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 13 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 14 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 15 | Jane accompanied her hostess , who had taken her ten-year-old bronchial , backward ( ‘ France is the capital of Paris ’ ) overactive child to one , and while waiting was confided in by a fashionable , staring-eyed woman . |