Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 2 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 3 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 4 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 5 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 6 | Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable . |
| 7 | Finally , in the twelfth century BC , the Granary Style appeared — a very meagre type of decoration in horizontal bands — and the Close Style , in which the designs were hemmed in by dense fringes , bands , and multiple borders ; the purely decorative aspect makes it difficult to identify the motifs . |
| 8 | Recordings were put out by small companies and would have limited sales compared to popular , commercial discs . |
| 9 | The tins were dug up by hungry residents of the capital for consumption or sale . |
| 10 | New areas were opened up by speculative building programmes . |
| 11 | Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week . |
| 12 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 13 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 14 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 15 | Melrose secretary Stuart Henderson commented : ‘ If changes were brought about by other bodies we would have to look at what we do . |
| 16 | The Scottish Office produced a manual and a guide to legislation and support structures were set up by central government and education authorities to provide information and to respond to board queries . |
| 17 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 18 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 19 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 20 | But it is doubtful whether many Greeks were taken in by such propaganda . |
| 21 | The large items were cut up by oxy-acetylene torch , and explosive was used to separate some of the steelwork from its foundations . |
| 22 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 23 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 24 | Inspections were carried out by outside groups for the first time , and changes , such as putting windows into dark cells , took place . |
| 25 | Hence it is worth explaining , in a way that elsewhere might not be necessary and would be seen as an indulgence , that in our case , once permission was granted , no limits were laid down by senior officers and no censorship role has been retained by the RUC over the final manuscript . |
| 26 | As all these procedures were carried out by two endoscopists ( IRS and SGB ) we do not consider that this led to significant bias . |
| 27 | In the case of Olugboja ( 1981 ) two girls were picked up by two men and taken to a remote house . |
| 28 | Their supply ships were held up by contrary winds , and Edward was faced with no alternative but an inglorious retreat to England . |
| 29 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 30 | Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff , even when their own origins are working-class , reflect those values . |