Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 2 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 3 | Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality . |
| 4 | In an instant they were kneeling in silence by the bed with bowed foreheads ; and the sick boy tenderly put his hands on their heads , and pushed the frail white fingers through their hair , and looked at them tearfully without a word , till they hid their faces with their hands , and broke into deep suppressed sobs of compassion . |
| 5 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 6 | The Council of Castile , in spite of its repeated claims to be the only legally constituted authority , was discredited by its supposed subservience to Murat ; its orders were treated with contempt by the Provincial Juntas . |
| 7 | They were joined for lunch by the geography mistress , whose name he had not caught , and the games mistress , whose whistle-blowing prowess he had earlier admired . |
| 8 | Mortalities from cancer ( cancer given as the underlying cause of death ) were calculated for each treatment and were adjusted for age by the direct method . |
| 9 | The broadcasts were relayed by satellite by the Avrasya television company . |
| 10 | They were scattered in panic by the Nez Perce warriors ' fierce fire . |
| 11 | Nothing in the Report of Professor L. C. B. Gower on Review of Investor Protection ( 1984 ) ( Cmnd. 9125 ) , the recommendations of which were carried into effect by the Act of 1986 , elucidates why the distinction was made . |
| 12 | The proceedings of the Legislative Council were sent to London for the perusal of the Colonial Office and were reported in detail by the local press . |
| 13 | The enemy were caught off balance by the shock of the attack . |
| 14 | When , in late 1709 , a Dissenting minister set up a conventicle in Monmouth without taking out a licence , he and some sixteen of his congregation were committed to prison by the mayor for failing to meet the provisions of the Toleration Act . |
| 15 | For example , the " difficult customer " in Chapter 7 , whose actions were presented in Creole by the narrator : Meanwhile , in the same narrative , the " Creole " voice is also used to represent the " difficult customer 's " own words : while a " respectable " near-RP voice is given to the manager : |
| 16 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 17 | Sara 's legs were trembling with exhaustion by the time she reached the stables . |
| 18 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 19 | Other judicial officials were transferred at will by the Governor , from station to station and department to department , but the Colombo secretariat could not interfere with specific judgments . |
| 20 | Twenty five patients who were referred on account of characteristic biliary symptoms and were known to have gall stones on the basis of previous ultrasound examinations were accepted for treatment by the rotary lithotrite . |
| 21 | These were selected for examination by the assessors , but rejected for planning faults . |
| 22 | The long shells of the hulls were wiped from view by the heave of the sea , so that the prow platforms and tents of the poop could no longer be seen , and only the pennanted masts told where they were , until they rode into view once more , in a steam of spume from the bite of the oars . |
| 23 | For many years the discount houses have agreed to buy each week whatever quantity of treasury bills were offered for sale by the Bank . |
| 24 | The book had a strange subsequent history in that five distinct editions , totalling perhaps 50,000 copies , were reprinted for use by the Federal troops in the American Civil War ( 1861–65 ) , more than two hundred years after the other Civil War . |
| 25 | But the military were accused of intimidation by the opposition ; their role in putting down the pro-democracy uprising in nineteen eighty eight , has n't been forgotten . |
| 26 | Her long neck and strong pointed chin were shown to advantage by the gesture . |
| 27 | The Report 's recommendations were approved in principle by the European Community ( EC ) in 1971 and , as a prelude to the first stage , central banks were invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values . |
| 28 | Sustained efforts made to limit educational opportunities for commoners were inspired in part by the hope that this would ensure that noblemen would provide the increasingly specialized and trained personnel required . |
| 29 | These findings were greeted with scepticism by the motor vehicle industry , the oil industry , and the vehicle-loving public . |
| 30 | This is an astonishing view of the world ; a perversely reversed megalomania ; an assertion that all forms of political and military life were brought into existence by the grand design of the Soviet Union so that if those designs suddenly cease to be hostile , then all that is solid in the West will melt . |