Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker was watched by Roxburgh on Saturday when Hearts beat Dundee United at Tynecastle and was rated ‘ outstanding ’ by the national coach , who once worked with the goalkeeper at Scotland Youth level 12 years ago . |
| 2 | The prosecution 's case against Gotti was hampered by reliance on evidence based on inconclusive and largely inaudible tape recordings , and by the reluctance of witnesses to testify against him . |
| 3 | Right This interpretation of a wireline log of a borehole in Indonesia was made by means of GS computer software funded by ODA . |
| 4 | ANC president Nelson Mandela was informed by Bush of his decision personally and tried to dissuade him . |
| 5 | Wright was captured by Match of the Day cameras cuffing Tottenham 's David Howells off the ball in Saturday 's tempestuous North London derby . |
| 6 | Even Hennessy was taken by surprise at the abrupt departure , and he stood in a moment 's confusion before turning and hurrying out . |
| 7 | LOI was determined by ignition at 550°C for 1h . |
| 8 | Memnon was slain by ACHILLES at Troy and Eos has mourned her son ever since , her daily tears forming the morning dew . |
| 9 | Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire , Syria was administered by France under a League of Nations mandate after 1920 ; the Syrian Arab Republic achieved full independence in 1946 . |
| 10 | MLU was used by Brown as a basis for dividing early language development into a series of stages . |
| 11 | There Suzan was haunted by visions of her father , beckoning her to come and lie beside his tomb . |
| 12 | A serious escalation in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the end of April and in early May was accompanied by accusations from the Armenian leadership that the Soviet authorities were openly siding with the Azerbaijanis , as a reward for Azerbaijan 's decision the week before to be party to the new Union Treaty , and as punishment for Armenia 's independence drive . |
| 13 | During the first government of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson , one of whose election slogans had been that he was going to introduce a white hot technological revolution , AEA was empowered by act of Parliament to undertaken R&D on non-nuclear topics . |
| 14 | Washing lead ores in Derbyshire was undertaken by women throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 16 | The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 , and has , since 1952 , been a state in " free association " with the USA . |
| 17 | Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's Chancellor , suspected that Korea was intended by Stalin as a ruse , to draw attention to the Far East whilst he launched into violent action in Europe . |
| 18 | The police force in Korea was controlled by Japanese at the higher levels but included appreciable numbers of Koreans : in 1930 Korean police officers represented approximately 40 per cent of the total force of 18,811 . |
| 19 | The Republic of Cuba was ceded by Spain to the United States following the Spanish-American war of 1898 . |
| 20 | The stolen Vauxhall Nova was spotted by police in the Dene Road area of Headington , in Oxford . |
| 21 | The phosphoinositide signalling pathway may have a role to play because this tetanus-induced onset of LTP was enhanced by activation of the mGlu receptor . |
| 22 | The plunge in aluminium prices in January was contained by forecasts of a tight supply situation which pushed prices up to a 15-month high of $2,227.50 a tonne in September . |
| 23 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 24 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 25 | NAPAP was created by Congress in 1980 to study the effects and extent of acid rain caused by industrial air pollutants . |
| 26 | According to villagers , Serbian insurgents killed those left wounded after Dalj was occupied by units of the Yugoslav National Army . |
| 27 | It is curious that the title of the City of Ripon was confirmed by statute in 1865 . |
| 28 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 29 | As with many of the city 's churches , San Nazaro was gutted by fire in the early Middle Ages , when light could only be provided by open flames and work on roofs meant using braziers to melt lead . |
| 30 | The assistant manager of the Holmes Cash and Carry on Boucher Crescent was taken by robbers to the warehouse in his Hyundai Pony car while his wife and child were kept hostage at home . |