Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 2 | His successors were weighed down by the sense of duty . |
| 3 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 4 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 5 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 6 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 7 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 9 | While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members . |
| 10 | Although their American peers used mainly American guitars , these were expensive if available at all in Europe , which meant that home-grown lookalikes were snapped up by the hard-up young musos eager to perform — especially if they were reasonably playable in their own right . |
| 11 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 12 | Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones , and their errors were written up by the historian . |
| 13 | Many possible direct effects were ruled out by the test program and Mayo eventually concluded that a complex emotional chain had been behind the productivity changes . |
| 14 | Efforts to enter the building and find Meredith and Amelia Putt also proved futile and the would-be rescuers were driven out by the heat and flames . |
| 15 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 16 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 17 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 18 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 19 | Strikes and protests were called off by the nationalists pending the outcome of the discussions , which ended on Jan. 12 in an apparent climb-down by the nationalists , all participants in the " public council " endorsing a draft declaration which upheld the Dec. 29 decisions on minority rights . |
| 20 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |
| 21 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | ( Montgomery 1983 : 78 ) Since far more attacks were brought about by the government 's death squads than the left , Romero 's vast audience soon became aware of what was happening in their country . |
| 23 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 24 | Sequencing of DNA fragments subcloned into M13 vectors was carried out by the method of Sanger et al ( 25 ) , using a modified T7 DNA polymerase ( Sequenase , United States Biochemical Corporation ) . |
| 25 | A bill to legalize the marriage of Jews and Christians was thrown out by the Hungarian Diet in 1883 . |
| 26 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 27 | These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann . |
| 28 | Their powers were laid down by the old Lunacy and Mental Deficiency Acts , which were concerned with the definition , ascertainment and committal of mentally disordered persons as well as with the administration of the services . |
| 29 | Mr Marland says the safe and lucrative deals were creamed off by the syndicates , and the risky ones left for the unsuspecting to pick up . |
| 30 | Suddenly , all the sounds were drowned out by the whining and screaming of the huge drill . |