Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining 18.3% were placed with institutions by the company 's brokers , Barclays de Zoete Wedd and UBS . |
| 2 | A leaked World Bank internal report shows that more than one-third of Bank-funded projects completed in 1991 were regarded as failures by the Bank 's own staff . |
| 3 | Those in front were spitted with the bayonets ; those in flank were torn in pieces by the musquetry and grape shot . ’ |
| 4 | Eight years later , punk rockers with honours degrees were going to concerts by The Jesus and Mary Chain — married to girls who worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art , or living with men who created ( or deconstructed ) advertising campaigns . |
| 5 | Financial , as opposed to commodity , futures were innovated in currencies by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ( CME ) in 1972 and in bonds by the Chicago Board of Trade ( CBOT ) in 1976 . |
| 6 | Probability of relapse curves were computed by the Kaplan-Meier method , and were compared between groups by the long rank test . |
| 7 | A member of staff at the Royal United Hospital said staff were reduced to tears by the tragedy . |
| 8 | Practical problems were caused for parliamentarians by the fact that Community bodies were scattered in Strasbourg , Luxembourg and Brussels . |
| 9 | All meals at that time arrived in the ward in large containers and were served onto plates by the senior nurse on duty . |
| 10 | Burma 's communications were knocked to pieces by the Allied air forces . |
| 11 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 12 | I threw away the guava core , and it too was torn to pieces by the children . |
| 13 | The design problem of disentangling one 's guts from one 's brain was solved for vertebrates by the invention of an internal skeleton built around a backbone . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary 's reference was made following complaints by the appellant of police malpractice , an investigation by the P.C.A. and the quashing of convictions in other cases involving one of the officers of whose conduct the appellant complained . |
| 15 | The sultan 's army was supplied with troops by the timarli — the holders of fiefs known as timars . |
| 16 | The shock was increased for Londoners by the simultaneous merger of The Star with the Evening News . |
| 17 | Because teachers ' centres and the increase of in-service education in the late 1970s and 1980s occurred outside schools , there was some separation between the flow of curriculum development in the sense in which it was supported in schools by the work of advisers and advisory teachers and in the way it made its impact on individual teachers through regular courses of familiarization and in-service education . |
| 18 | If we had an income tax in the model so that some part of any extra income received was taken in taxes by the government , total withdrawals would rise and the multiplier would be smaller . |
| 19 | This was advertised in Tours by the line : ‘ Is your mayor corrupt ? ’ |
| 20 | For the first time ever in Britain , CS gas was fired at rioters by the police . |
| 21 | The air was carved into blocks by the buildings , soft and warm where the sun reached , chill and unyielding in the shadows . |
| 22 | The collapse in confidence was prompted by proposals by the US Senate to limit credit card borrowing [ see also p. 38566 ] , a move which would have damaged the revival of retail markets ; markets calmed , however , following Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady " s dismissal of the idea , and the index ended the month 6 per cent down from the 3,075 level recorded at the end of October . |