Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 2 | To begin with plasmas were heated solely by the electric current flowing through the discharge , in a way similar to the ohmic heating of a wire element . |
| 3 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 4 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Charles the Cheesemonger 's major contribution to the history of his side of the family was to ensure that the name continued ; not in Frome , where Titfords were to disappear completely by the 1860s , but in London . |
| 7 | So , if South Korea were attacked today by the inferior ground forces of North Korea plus their Air Corps , I feel that South Korea would take a bloody nose . |
| 8 | With rare exceptions , they were nominated essentially by the local aristocracy , particularly by the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But then they were torn apart by the skilful Portuguese , who scored three goals in eight minutes and then stormed on to victory . |
| 15 | The elections to the three chambers of the Croatian assembly , all conducted on a multiparty basis in two rounds on April 22 and May 6-7 , were won overwhelmingly by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) , led by Franjo Tudjman . |
| 16 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 17 | Those transactions were considered fully by the MMC . |
| 18 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 19 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 20 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 21 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 22 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 23 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 24 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 25 | The boats and barges of the early river navigations were moved along by the current or tide , by sail or by gangs of men . |
| 26 | The relationship between centre and periphery in the Merovingian kingdom was thus extremely complex , because the connections between the two regions were exploited both by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy and by the northern rulers for their own ends up until the eighth century . |
| 27 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 28 | These are detectable throughout the Universe ( in low amounts ) and were produced originally by the Big Bang : the explosion that gave rise to all the matter and energy in the Universe , 15 billion years ago . |
| 29 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 30 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |