Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 3 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 4 | Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented . |
| 5 | Another segment displayed the night side of planet Karkason : a swell of blackness pricked with intermittent little red pimples which were the mouths of its active volcanos — those , at least , which were not currently cloaked by smoke … |
| 6 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 7 | There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets . |
| 8 | Unlike the case in earlier phases of the war , the German people were not systematically prepared by propaganda for the opening of the war against the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | These rates were not significantly affected by subdivision of the diet group into those who achieved a high fibre score from mainly non-bran sources ( n=7 ) and those who were compliant in taking bran supplements ( 31.4 ( 18.6 ) % v 49.4 ( 13.9 ) % respectively by LTA at 42 months : NS ) . |
| 10 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 11 | The first years of nationalisation were thus regularly punctuated by government demands for consideration of rationing by price or by direct load limitation . |
| 12 | This point was echoed by the farmworkers ' district officer for Suffolk , Margaret Holmes , who said that those on low pay in rural areas were always worst hit by fuel tax increases . |
| 13 | The Formula One Class races were once again sponsored by Southwest Airlines . |
| 14 | Services were clearly less affected by import penetration than manufacturing ; and between 1955 and 1975 their share of the world total fell from 25 to 15 per cent , which compares very favourably with the performance of manufactured goods [ Sargent , 1979 ] . |
| 15 | BMK 's offices in Birmingham and London were both completely destroyed by bombing . |
| 16 | The police were also hard pressed by criticism and ridicule in 1856 . |
| 17 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 18 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 19 | They were n't particularly bothered by telltale wrinkles . |
| 20 | The fact is , Harry , it simply would n't work and , if you were n't so blinded by love , you 'd see it for yourself . |
| 21 | For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability , portability , uniformity and ease of recognition ; Cowries probably came into use as currency as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 22 | Abundance thus rapidly acquired by those who were ignorant of its proper application hastened the progress of luxury and licentiousness , and the lower orders were almost universally corrupted by profusion and depravity scarcely to be credited by those who are strangers to our district . |
| 23 | True drama unfolded in the third round of the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy for more than one reason , as reigning champions David Lloyd , Slazenger Heston were almost certainly dethroned by event newcomers Royal Berkshire , and Team Excel Bath missed out on a golden opportunity to displace last year 's Area 8 champions West Hants . |
| 24 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 25 | Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy . |
| 26 | It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out . |
| 27 | Political attitudes were very largely determined by partisanship , but not completely . |
| 28 | The speech , billed as the most important address ever made by a Hong Kong governor , was mostly well received by community leaders , with criticisms focusing on its skimpy attention to important political issues . |
| 29 | It was so well hidden by forest , however , that they were almost upon it before she really had the chance to look . |
| 30 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |