Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 2 | ‘ Songs were specially composed for her by such distinguished musicians as WSGwynn Williams and Meirion Williams , and she was often referred to as ‘ the second Katherine Ferrier ’ , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 4 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 5 | Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners . |
| 6 | THE lover of Britain 's famous agony aunt , Marje Proops , was secretly cheating on her by living with another woman . |
| 7 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 8 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 9 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 10 | That persistence must however be seen against the background of the following factors : ( a ) the weakness of her faith as I have found it ; ( b ) the fact that no explanation was ever offered to her by anyone in medical authority as to the risks that a refusal to have a blood transfusion presented to her health indeed to her life . |
| 11 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 12 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 13 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |
| 14 | But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health . |
| 15 | Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years . |
| 16 | On 12 October 1738 , as ‘ B.B. Philo Physiologiae ’ , he issued proposals in the Daily Advertiser for subscribers to this work which was then printed for him by Godfrey Smith in ten volumes , plus plates , between 1738 and 1741 , under the title of Memoirs of the Royal Society ; being a new Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1665 to 1735 . |
| 17 | Pain in shooting down a Do215 ; Rippon also shot down a Ju87 , while Sgt. McDougal was seen to get another of these , but was then shot down himself by a Bf109 . |
| 18 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the Abbe Gerard apparently drowned after drinking claret which was undoubtedly sent to him by Dacourt , though taken down to the village probably by his secretary , Master Millet . |
| 20 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 21 | Analogy I used in my book , was actually suggested to me by , although this is a ana a kind of metaphor that , that her father was very fond of . |
| 22 | In 1912 the same principle was reaffirmed to W. A. S. Hewins by Bonar Law , in a letter that was actually drafted for him by Steel-Maitland : " If a constituency definitely refuses to accept a candidate , even if the Central Office wish them to do so , they can not be forced to take action against their will . |
| 23 | The option of allowing the appeal , with the result that the child moves at once to open accommodation , is not one that was seriously pressed upon me by Mr. Wildblood , for whose skilful and moderate submissions I am grateful . |