Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO men were remanded on bail by Rhuddlan Magistrates yesterday on a charge of passing two counterfeit £10 notes . |
| 2 | They were remanded on bail by Barnsley magistrates until next month . |
| 3 | ( First Edition ) Nine men arrested during a police raid on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in north London were remanded on bail by Haringey magistrates on charges ranging from assault to threatening behaviour and obstruction . |
| 4 | Three people charged in connection with an alleged plot to launder more than £16m from the £26m Brink's-Mat gold bullion raid six years ago were remanded in custody by magistrates at Horseferry Road Court , London . |
| 5 | Four Hartlepool men alleged to have travelled to North Yorkshire to carry out burglaries at the Malt Shovel pub at Hovingham and the Castle Howard Caravan Park were remanded in custody by Scarborough magistrates yesterday . |
| 6 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 7 | With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus . |
| 8 | He did so with the help of the School of Tropical Medicine who were experimenting with treatment by triparsaidide from malarial insects . |
| 9 | ( Anglers are presently major users of the Derwent and would remain so even if the river were reinstated for use by power craft . ) |
| 10 | The saint 's relics were given to Vukovar by Pope Benedict XIV and brought from Rome in 1754 . |
| 11 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 12 | She waited until tea time , and listened in silence while Mrs Maugham recounted her adventures with Mrs Hanney to the rest of the family : they were received in silence by Alan , Arthur and her father , who did not waste their speech . |
| 13 | He saw that these tasty species were treated with respect by predators as if they too were distasteful to eat . |
| 14 | Both women were treated as infants by Hugh , while Harriet was forced to play stern mother to her husband 's aunt . |
| 15 | At a concert at London 's Town and Country Club they were joined on stage by Metelic , a team of Ukrainian dancers from Reading who were given a rousing reception . |
| 16 | REPORTS that the Government plans to save about 13 of the 31 coal mines threatened with closure — but only for about two years — were dismissed as speculation by Downing Street last night . |
| 17 | In 1685 five men were hanged at Wareham by order of the infamous Judge Jeffreys for participation in Monmouth 's rebellion . |
| 18 | Monastic buildings were added to plans by Carlo Lurago and the church was redesigned by F. Špaček from 1733–5 . |
| 19 | The decisions Gen McCreery was asking for could only be taken at a senior level , and during the day of 14 May they were considered at Caserta by Gen Brian Robertson , the Chief Administrative Officer at AFHQ . |
| 20 | FOUR people accused of a series of deception offences at post offices were committed for trial by Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 21 | Thus when biological ideas were applied to society by Spencer and by social Darwinists , they were allied to the powerful notion of human progress , which was not a part of Darwin 's evolutionary theory . |
| 22 | Caroline Spurgeon 's analyses of Shakespeare 's imagery were met with suspicion by R. G. Cox , who insisted that there would be " no substitute for literary criticism " . |
| 23 | Positive cosmids were mapped into intervals by hybridization to other YACs and isolated ends of YAC clones from the contig , and to the GLA and DXS178 probes ( ref. 26 and I.V . |
| 24 | The beans were sold as Megabeans but were manufactured for Megastores by Beaneasy . |
| 25 | THREE MOTHERS , Mrs Mary McKeown , Mrs Nellie Andrews and Mrs Eileen Ashworth were presented with certificates by Bishop Gray for reaching 50 of service to the Union of Catholic Mothers , at the celebrations of the diamond jubilee of the Holy Cross Foundation , Birkenhead . |
| 26 | SIXTY four Indonesian students were in the spotlight recently when they were presented with scholarships by LASMO . |
| 27 | Between 1943 and 1945 four Conservatives loyal to the Government were defeated at by-elections by Commonwealth or Independent Socialist candidates , and there was a general tendency for the Conservative share of the vote to fall ( Addison . |
| 28 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 29 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 30 | Many were written to lyrics by Montaine . |