Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 2 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |
| 3 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 4 | A report on the case involving the removal of the nine South Ronaldsay children from their homes was sent by the police to the Procurator Fiscal in Wick . |
| 5 | But the gratitude of pro-Market backbenchers was offset by the assurances she offered to anti-Marketeers like Tory Jonathan Aitken , and Labour 's Peter Shore . |
| 6 | The President knew well that Diem 's rule was both repressive and corrupt , but the idea of an alternative government made up of members of the opposition National Liberation Front ( NLF ) and including some Communists was rejected by the Americans . |
| 7 | The number of entrants was swelled by the servicemen who took part , ‘ volunteered ’ by their superior officers as a good way of keeping fit and in training , especially as some did it in their army boots . |
| 8 | The composition of these pore waters was controlled by the conditions existing at the surface , and these in turn were dependent on the stage reached in the ‘ evaporation cycle ’ ( Clark 1980a ; Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 9 | An indication of the prospects of success of this and similar efforts was provided by the remarks of Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 10 | Gradually the word cadets was corrupted by the Scots to ‘ cady ’ , meaning an odd-job man . |
| 11 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |
| 12 | For example , Brazil 's 1988 resolution to prohibit foreign controlling interests in natural resource ventures was circumvented by the exemptions granted to those who ‘ industrialised ’ their operations by building refineries and the like . |
| 13 | The implication that reasonable foresight was the appropriate test for determining the existence of a duty of care by a company 's auditors was considered by the courts several times following Hedley Byrne . |
| 14 | In Strathclyde alone , nearly three out of every five cases were not pursued to court , a statistic which provides ‘ considerable support for the view that a policy of mass arrests was pursued by the police in that area ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) . |
| 15 | However , the Court of Appeal ( which judges on both points of law and points of fact ) reversed this decision and dismissed the claim , considering that the hiring of the seven men was justified by the needs of the bank . |
| 16 | The resulting end-of-year forecast was close to budget : a favourable variance on primary journals was counterbalanced by the effects of the recession in other areas . |
| 17 | The sky above Quatre Bras was dirtied by the camp-fires , but to the east the rising sun betrayed a much vaster quantity of rising woodsmoke . |
| 18 | The image of public service was strong although from time to time a recognition of the public relations benefits was made by the solicitors we interviewed : |
| 19 | Their wealth and that of the lords was augmented by the tolls of the daily provision market , a general Saturday market and the great Whit week fair , which sold the cattle from the surrounding areas . |
| 20 | The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants . |
| 21 | Computer Associates was eliminated by the results of the ITT alone . |
| 22 | The taking of booty from conquered cities was called by the Romans deditio ( surrender ) , a process in which captured weapons , money , works of art or other valuables were dedicated to the gods at Rome , thereby giving divine sanction to the imposition of Roman rule . |
| 23 | Neither of these proposals was accepted by the men who , both in December 1909 and May 1910 , voted by two-thirds majorities to reject them.46 The talks remained in deadlock through the summer of 1910 , but following energetic efforts by the compositors and the unions representing kindred trades , pressure was mounting for a confrontation , which took place in the last weeks of the summer |
| 24 | The weakness of the government at its roots was demonstrated by the events at Stockport in March 1920 , when a vacancy occurred there ; weeks of argument were solved only by the resignation of the other sitting member , so that there could be a double by-election with one Unionist and one Liberal candidate as in 1918 . |
| 25 | A first-class team of syndicate chairmen was provided by the banks . |