Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 2 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 3 | All four of the white Los Angeles police officers , whose acquittal in the Rodney King beating case sparked several days of rioting in the city in late April and early May [ see p. 38894 ] , were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 4 on federal charges of violating King 's civil rights . |
| 4 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
| 5 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 6 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 7 | Well-concealed redoubts were guarded by a triple barrier of barbed wire , fifty yards deep . |
| 8 | Details about the alleged incident were given by a prosecuting lawyer at Belfast Crown Court in the trial of three Londonderry men . |
| 9 | Parades of shabby shops , gathered like mongrel dogs on a street corner , were parted by a grim council estate , and then reassembled . |
| 10 | Any whether worries were eased by a gradual lifting of the gloom as England went in again . |
| 11 | Most ventures were undertaken by a joint-stock company authorised by act of parliament to raise a capital sum from a share issue and supplementary capital by borrowing . |
| 12 | I had never learnt any Science — or History — because at school we were taught by a savage creature of uncertain temper , who had favourites , of whom I was terrified , so I learnt nothing . |
| 13 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 14 | Initially the two wings were linked by a tunnel , but in 1880 they were joined by a six-storey addition . |
| 15 | We shook hands and were joined by a sparkling red-head : ‘ Dr Sherry Brown , hello . |
| 16 | Here we were joined by a small group of French Commandos , no doubt with the same views in mind ; something to drink and eye up the local crumpet ! |
| 17 | In time they were joined by a certain Valentino , an elderly man with spectacles and a purple birthmark , who unlocked a shed beside the pool , turned taps and wheels , and announced , in his role as the Ketterings ’ regular pool attendant , ‘ Va bene adesso . ’ |
| 18 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 19 | They were joined by a growing audience who left the pub to watch the spectacle , jeering and shouting and offering encouragement . |
| 20 | They did , however , note that the disturbances of 1811 – 12 were distinguished by a new level of planning and organisation , but still insisted that the involvement of " proper " trade unionists was limited to sympathy . |
| 21 | Pensioners , some in their 80s , were shaken by a loud explosion and saw 30ft flames burst from the storage tank . |
| 22 | Previously , half the 120 seats were filled by a first-past-the-post system by department and half by a national party list system . |
| 23 | Here we were boarded by a local party who were to assist mooring . |
| 24 | As the Dwarfs advanced into the mouth of the pass they were attacked by a large army of Orcs and Goblins that had apparently been waiting to attack them from behind once they had moved south . |
| 25 | These were surrounded by a starched frill of Honiton lace , which was supported by a stiff disc of white paper and held in place by wire , wrapped with tissue and bound with ribbon . |
| 26 | As the cars of the beau monde arrived to see the spectacle of Mosley in action , their passengers discovered — as Lord Trenchard complained — that they were surrounded by a jeering crowd of protesters . |
| 27 | Some nodules with a diameter of 4–6 mm in three of 13 pancreatic sections in the PBD group , but none of those in the fundectomy group , were surrounded by a fibrous capsule and maintained an acinar cell differentiation suggesting adenomatous change ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 28 | They were surrounded by a three-dimensional diagram made of coloured lines and shapes . |
| 29 | Many were surrounded by a thin mantle of small lymphocytes . |
| 30 | The back garden was a small square of lawn bordered by rhododendrons which , in turn , were surrounded by a high wattle fence . |