Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] by [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money was exchanged , the two contestants shook hands , and their place in the ring was taken by a second pair of fighters : a Rajput with a handlebar moustache , and a small but fierce-looking Muslim who sported a bushy black beard . |
| 2 | His car was struck by a third vehicle pinning him and severely injuring both his legs , one of which was later amputated . |
| 3 | In the pre-campaign week , average Conservative and Alliance images were 10 per cent higher than Labour 's but the gap was halved by the second fortnight of the campaign . |
| 4 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |
| 5 | The brunt of the fighting was borne by the 3rd Battalion , who suffered 70% casualties during eleven assaults in as many days . |
| 6 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 7 | Publication was stimulated by the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century revival of interest in folk customs , and accounts from many places throughout the British Isles and beyond are to be found in published collections , often by county . |
| 8 | This attitude was reinforced by the second wave of technology which provided instrumentation , ways of sensing and recording data which gave more accurate and reliable data than that which can be detected directly by the human senses . |
| 9 | This act was perpetrated by the first ascensionist Nigel Slater . |
| 10 | In terms of personality , the Chancellor was strengthened by a second Treasury minister in the Cabinet with a special spending-brief , the Chief Secretary . |
| 11 | To standardise the manner in which information was presented by the investigator , patients were simply left to digest the written information for one hour , but they were given the opportunity to clarify anything which they did not understand before their state of anxiety was reassessed by a second Spielberger questionnaire . |
| 12 | The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position : |
| 13 | Often this will only be the recovery of an insurance excess where the accident was caused by the third party . |
| 14 | Master-lacquers do n't normally have extra drive-holes , and this point was missed by the first forgers . |
| 15 | The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and did n't make one opening . |
| 16 | Warburton of 69 Squadron undertook a reconnaissance over Southern Italy to seek the results of Operation ‘ Colossus ’ , but this day was marked by the first appearance over the island of 7/JG 26 . |
| 17 | The event was marked by the first issues of two new newspapers , the MDP 's Democracy and the Mirror of the umbrella organization Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) . |
| 18 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |
| 19 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 20 | The Times ' price was slashed by a third last month to boost flagging circulation . |
| 21 | Changes to Cuba 's 1976 Constitution were approved by the 11th ordinary meeting of the National Assembly of Popular Power on July 11-12 . |
| 22 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 23 | The summit was preceded by the 54th ordinary meeting of the OAU Council of Ministers ( on May 27-June 2 ) which prepared the agenda for the summit meeting . |
| 24 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 25 | This form of life was shared by the sixth forms of grammar schools and the universities to which their students proceeded , and it did not greatly differ whether the frame of reference was ‘ Cambridge ’ or ‘ Oxford ’ , or to import an Arnoldian variation on this model , Hebraic or Hellenic , directed towards ‘ criticism ’ or ‘ appreciation ’ . |
| 26 | The mapping was completed by the 1st of August . |
| 27 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 28 | In this trial the polymeric diet was discontinued for ethical reasons when no improvement was found by the 10th day of treatment . |
| 29 | But , according to Moore ( 1938a ) , " occasional specimens are taken in which the presence of a second set of teeth within the marginal ones indicates that the original stoppage of growth was followed by a second slight growing period , this in turn being replaced by a second period of thickening and growth stoppage , but such specimens are too rare to be a serious source of error " . |
| 30 | The forework was reconstructed by the third Marquess in 1900 . |