Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicester , one of the better teams in the division , made only one significant mistake and were mugged of the points by resourceful opponents who did not make any . |
| 2 | Since then , Steve Mason , who did a Victor Kiam and bought the company himself , has masterminded a remarkable recovery job and such recent Top Ten singles as Nomad 's ‘ ( I Wan na Give You ) Devotion ’ and Kylie 's ‘ What Do I Have To Do ’ , were placed in the shops by Pinnacle . |
| 3 | Now both dogs were fastened to the pipes by heavy chains that rattled each time they moved . |
| 4 | ‘ And the girls were given to the priests by their families when they were ten or eleven years old . ’ |
| 5 | These charges were collected at the ports by agents for the lighthouses . |
| 6 | The great navies of Lothern were driven from the seas by the Chaos fleets . |
| 7 | George Godwin of The Builder was also present , and they were introduced to the Ministers by three MPs , Hope , Stirling and Tite . |
| 8 | His team , World Cup finalists and dotted with household idols , were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of Australian students and farmers in the first Test , and the second Test at Lille promises to be not only a trial of Fouroux 's incumbency as coach but also his tactical shrewdness in selection . |
| 9 | Or it may have been that the shares were not purchased but were subscribed for and were issued to the investors by Euramco . |
| 10 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 11 | Accounts were submitted to the plaintiffs by the first defendant and the receivers . |
| 12 | Although the gains in Germany were preserved ( the symbol of agreement to end the Kulturkampf was the completion and consecration of Cologne Cathedral in 1880 , in the presence of the Emperor and all the reigning German princes ) , those of the Ralliement in France were blown to the winds by the Dreyfus Affair . |
| 13 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 14 | McKay was joined among the qualifiers by another West of Scotland girl , Janice Moodie . |
| 15 | In 1945 a general power to apportion damages was given to the courts by the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 . |
| 16 | Final impetus was given to the talks by the presence of President Alfredo Cristiani in New York on Dec. 28-31 at the personal invitation of Pérez de Cuéllar , who gave assurances that the FMLN had given " confidential promises " regarding the peace process . |
| 17 | A virulent ideological onslaught was waged against the miners by an unsympathetic media and a large cross-section of politicians . |
| 18 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 19 | Martin Frears has been working as religious mercenary since he himself was rescued from the Moonies by his father . |
| 20 | In Lewis 's day , some formality was added to the proceedings by the undergraduate 's wearing a gown . |
| 21 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 22 | It was applied to the birds by the ornithologist William Swainson ( 1789–1855 ) , who wrote extensively and produced a number of well illustrated works . |
| 23 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 24 | These estimates also suggest that $9 billion of the remaining $13.5 billion was owed to the banks by enterprises , which would leave the banks with net foreign exchange liabilities of $14 billion ( of which $4.5 billion would be in respect of liabilities other than foreign exchange deposits ) . |
| 25 | Patricia Hewitt 's candid acknowledgment of the voters ' ‘ visceral fear of change and of Labour ’ was felt on the doorsteps by Liberal Democrats with particular acuteness . |
| 26 | During the Second World War considerable damage was done to the docks by enemy action , and they have now been restored as part of the World Trade Centre , with the dock as a yachting harbour and the surviving warehouses used as trading floors with shops beneath , an imaginative example of redevelopment combined with conservation . |
| 27 | In 1568 comment was made to the Goldsmiths by Mr. Francis Elcock , a local worthy , that £10 " seemeth a very scant living " but the hint was not taken ; a decade later , formal permission was asked of the Company to charge fees , but it was refused . |
| 28 | If the intention was the same on both sides , the result , in my judgment , was that an agreement was made between the parties by implication . |
| 29 | One of the greatest botanical artists of the period , Georg Dionysius Ehret ( 1708–1770 ) , was related to the Millers by marriage . |
| 30 | A coffin , complete with ‘ corpse ’ and bell , was pushed through the streets by twelve suitably dressed members ( who would n't swear an oath either ! ) to great cheers and hilarity . |