Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were written by the tubercular vicar of All Saints , Lower Brixham , the Rev H F Lyte ( 1793–1847 ) , during his last months of illness . |
| 2 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 3 | The last words were accompanied by a baleful glare at Lucy . |
| 4 | Yanto 's honeyed words were accompanied by a silly grin . |
| 5 | His words were interrupted by a derisive snort . |
| 6 | Her words were interrupted by a triumphant shout of amusement from Geoffrey . |
| 7 | My words were interrupted by a full measure of ‘ My dear young lady ’ . |
| 8 | It was about the debate , about health care in America and the words were provided by an American reporter . |
| 9 | Guidelines were introduced by the then Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , with effect from June 1 , 1990 , under which Cabinet ministers , ministers outside the Cabinet and parliamentary under-secretaries were required to disclose their financial interests within four weeks of taking office and annually thereafter . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the mutated oligonucleotides were unable to compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences , even when a 500 molar excess of competitor was used ( data not shown ) , reinforcing the conclusion that the protein-DNA complexes were mediated by the mutated guanine residues . |
| 11 | I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms . |
| 12 | Thus after 1905 , as before , the landowning nobility of the central provinces were confronted by a homogeneous and cohesive peasant society . |
| 13 | Both the visual-judgement and category-judgement tasks could be performed quite easily when the readers were distracted by the shadowing task . |
| 14 | Well-concealed redoubts were guarded by a triple barrier of barbed wire , fifty yards deep . |
| 15 | The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments . |
| 16 | And if all that was n't reason enough to stay in bed in the morning , it proceeded to snow on our parade : Esquire 's opening festivities were blanketed by the worst storm to hit London since 1963 . |
| 17 | The festivities were capped by an emotional presentation of a set of Bohemian cut glass from the staff to Bernard and Laura . |
| 18 | Western journalists were taken by the Iraqi authorities to the site , where more than 300 bodies — including those of at least 91 children — were recovered , many burnt beyond recognition , and it was feared that many others remained buried in the wreckage . |
| 19 | On March 21 foreign journalists were taken by the Iraqi authorities to Karbala . |
| 20 | Two Civil Guards were wounded by a remote-control bomb on Aug. 2 between Pamplona and San Sebastián . |
| 21 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 22 | Bile acid concentrations were determined by an enzymatic assay using 3-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase with sodium taurocholate as the standard . |
| 23 | Plasma Pp concentrations were measured by a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay as described previously . |
| 24 | The principal other addresses were given by the eminent sons of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet : the Rev Thomas Gallaudet ( 1822–1902 ) , founder of the first American Church for the Deaf in New York and co-founder of the Gallaudet Homes for the Aged Deaf and Dumb ; and Edward Miner Gallaudet ( 1837–1917 ) , founder president and first head of Gallaudet College . |
| 25 | In Japan , the industrial policy of the ruling Liberal Democratic party worked through industry-wide business associations , and disputes were arbitrated by a strong , meritocratic central bureaucracy . |
| 26 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
| 27 | Some pictures were taken by a nameless photographer . |
| 28 | The auction was conducted by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , in July and August 1859 and raised some £95,000 in eighteen days : four pictures were bought by the National Gallery , and others by collectors of the calibre of William Douglas , eleventh Duke of Hamilton , Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ qq.v. ] , the fourth Marquess of Hertford , and Baron James de Rothschild . |
| 29 | In 1203–4 , 1205 and 1242 these concessions were rewarded by the financial and military support given to the Plantagenets by Bordeaux and other towns against both Castilian and French attacks on the duchy . |
| 30 | In justifying the establishment of these arts in education initiatives , two influences were cited by the great majority of respondents . |