Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] by [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This patient was , however , excluded from the study since her symptoms were explained by infection with Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 2 | Performances were given by children from Juniper Green Primary School , pupils of Miss Bangham and Mrs. M. Collen on the clarsach . |
| 3 | Performances were given by children from Juniper Green Primary School , pupils of Miss Bangham and Mrs. M. Collen on the clarsach . |
| 4 | Charges of government mismanagement were compounded by reports of corruption among food wholesalers , lorry owners and trawlermen . |
| 5 | The Smiths were regarded by cynics as flower wimps . |
| 6 | On Sept. 21 , the participants were joined by representatives of PICC members , including Japan . |
| 7 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales one or two of the judges were tainted by charges of corruption . |
| 8 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 9 | They were suffering from hypothermia and were flown by helicopter to hospital . |
| 10 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | They were preceded by weeks of speculation ( some of it inspired by the Elysée ) and followed by weeks of commentary and exegesis , all of which had the effect of focussing journalistic and public attention on the presidency . |
| 12 | Low wages were supplemented by gifts of clothing , gratuities or ‘ vails ’ from guests , and surreptitious payments from tradesmen . |
| 13 | AUSTRALIAN captain Allan Border and fast bowler Merv Hughes were reported by umpires for dissent during the last day of the drawn First Test against the West Indies in Brisbane yesterday . |
| 14 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 15 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 16 | Little or no formal techniques were being used or developed : problems were solved by rule of thumb and guess-work . |
| 17 | In the drought year of 1976 and in this summer , too , many trees were stressed by lack of water . |
| 18 | Sales at Kam Printronics , a joint venture company that produces high-volume printed circuit boards , were hampered by lack of capacity at the Chinese Allied Group 's plant — Kode 's partner . |
| 19 | Gangouo 's appointment , and senior military appointments and dismissals on Jan. 14 , were presented by Milongo as part of a restructuring necessary to eliminate tribalism in the military . |
| 20 | Almost all of these reports were prepared by committees of inquiry appointed directly by government ministers ( though we have also included a small number of particularly important reports produced by working parties or study groups attached to government ministries ) . |
| 21 | In the case of RNA polymerase III from mammalian cells three protein fractions were separated by chromatography on phosphocellulose and termed TFIIIA , B and C according to their consecutive elution points from this ion exchanger ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same . |
| 23 | Such occurrences caused some anxiety at the time , but were accepted by members as part of their responsibility . |
| 24 | The ceasefire negotiations were attended by representatives of North and South Ossetia . |
| 25 | A finger tip search of the surrounding area began early this morning and deserted warehouses nearby were searched by scenes of crime officers . |
| 26 | Maniguet was questioned by the police on his arrival in Sydney but again they were frustrated by lack of evidence that would have allowed them to detain him . |
| 27 | ( B ) Effect of phosphatase treatment on in vitro translated CREB , ATF1 and CREM. 35 S-labelled ATF1 ( lane 1-3 ) , CREM ( lanes 4 and 5 ) and CREB ( lanes 6 and 7 ) were produced by translation in rabbit reticulocyte lysate and treated with calf intestinal phosphatase in the presence or absence of phosphatase inhibitors as indicated below the figure . |
| 28 | Methylated bile acids were produced by reaction at room temperature for one hour and subsequently evaporated to dryness under nitrogen . |
| 29 | Microprocessors , these are the sort of devices which are used to operate lathes and do all sorts of tooling operations which historically were performed by people in assembly lines . |
| 30 | The one week and three week intestinal permeability tests were performed by patients at home . |