Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 2 | Dacre is hardly likely to have welcomed the appointment of an ally of Henry Clifford , first Earl of Cumberland [ q.v. ] , who had supplanted him as warden in 1525–7 and was to do so again in 1534 , but relations between Dacre and Musgrave were worsened by a protracted dispute over rents in Bewcastledale . |
| 3 | Chris Maxwell , 21 , and 22-year-old Roderick Arkell were swamped by the rolling white wall near the Val Thorens resort , near Grenoble . |
| 4 | State President de Klerk and Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha were greeted by a 21-gun salute and the South African national anthem as they arrived in Nigeria , hitherto a leading critic of the South African regime . |
| 5 | Finally , the aspirations of the Greeks of Crete were met by a Turkish promise at last to put into force constitutional reforms announced ten years before . |
| 6 | Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved . |
| 7 | Portugal was ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship , and so was at odds with the principles of liberal democracy that were deeply embedded in the life of the other six . |
| 8 | Part of the track which went over the river Wey was supported by a ferro-concrete bridge — revolutionary in its day . |
| 9 | It was here that the wife of Prince Windischgrätz was killed by a stray bullet and this caused the prince to react with unnecessary violence against the protesters . |
| 10 | Jean was accompanied by a small display team , which included members of her Morden class and two members of the Surrey Teens team . |
| 11 | Meredith was fascinated by the brief glimpse into his background , and wanted to ask why he needed to marry such a paragon . |
| 12 | The Soviet-DRA rejection of neutrality for Afghanistan was confirmed by the Afghan leader Babrak Karmal in an appearance on Afghan television on 21 March . |
| 13 | Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city . |
| 14 | A classic confrontation between the two occurred when the Spaniard Diaz del Castillo was received by the Aztec leader Moctezuma in Mexico City . |
| 15 | Watching her , Lucy was struck by a sudden thought , her intuition causing her to say slyly , ‘ Affair being the operative word . |
| 16 | About 100 years ago Robert Koch was confronted by a similar situation , albeit at the microscopic rather than the ultramicroscopic level . |
| 17 | The pair had been playing together near the busy A50 in Milton Keynes , Bucks , when Scott was hit by a white van or bus . |
| 18 | Likud was supported by the breakaway ex-Liberal faction led by Moda'i ( five seats ) ; the far-right Tehiya , Tzomet and Moledet ( seven seats ) ; the religious parties Mafgal and Degel Hatorah ( seven seats ) ; and one Shas vote . |
| 19 | Moore 's 1970 World Cup in Mexico was blighted by the wretched bracelet business in Bogota which smouldered on and on . |
| 20 | Sylvie was confronted by the utter pointlessness of her presence . |
| 21 | Raybestos was found by the High Court to have violated six conditions of its planning permission . |
| 22 | Edwin Beckett was employed by the Honourable Vicary Gibbs at Aldenham House near Elstree . |
| 23 | The singers included two members of the Wendling family , Dorothea and Elisabeth , whom Mozart knew well ; Idomeneus was sung by the 66-year-old Raaff , whose voice and acting ability were causing severe problems , while the role of Idamantes was taken by an even worse castrato , Vincenzo dal Prato . |
| 24 | As a result of the civil war of January 1986 , President Ali Nasser Mohammad was overthrown by a rival faction within the YSP and was replaced by Haider Abu Bakr al Attas , who was formally elected President by the SPC presidium in November 1986 . |
| 25 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 26 | George Seawright was shot by the Marxist-Leninist IPLO on 19th November 1987 and died on 3rd December . |
| 27 | After waking the guestmaster by tolling the abbey gate bell , Corbett was greeted by an anxious Prior and a solicitous Ranulf . |
| 28 | The main difference , though , was that while Pompeii was obliterated by the steady accumulation of ashes over a long period , perhaps as much as two days , Herculaneum was overwhelmed in a matter of minutes , possibly well after the eruption proper had ceased . |
| 29 | Martin Baptie was played by a local actor . |
| 30 | Mircha Snegur was elected by the Moldavian Supreme Soviet as its Chair ( i.e. President of Moldavia ) on April 27 . |