Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |
| 2 | Next week 's tournament was an unusual one in the golfing schedule , since it was sponsored by a number of companies and was fronted by a comedy team from television called Lumby and Titch . |
| 3 | The City and Guilds 201 certificate was for doing a course on the theory and practical aspects of machining and was presented by the director general of Lincoln Technology College , John A Barnes . |
| 4 | The newly created earl volunteered for service in the royal fleet , and was killed by a cannon shot in the first battle , off Lowestoft on 3 June . |
| 5 | In Grace Abounding nothing is said about his life as a soldier except that it was once preserved by the mercy of God when another man took his place as sentinel during a siege and was killed by a musket bullet . |
| 6 | When his battalion moved south to take part in the battle of Loos , Sorley commanded an attack on two trenches known as the Hairpin , south of the Hohenzollern redoubt , and was killed by a sniper 13 October 1915 . |
| 7 | A coroner has called for tighter security at a psychiatric hospital , after a patient walked out of a locked ward and was killed by a train on nearby railway tracks . |
| 8 | A doctor attempted to rescue the men and was killed by the fumes . |
| 9 | The rustic cottage was surrounded by topiary and flowers and was surmounted by a chimney-pot , out of which incongruously sprouted the trolley pole ! ( see p. 112 ) . |
| 10 | The typical Lincolnshire windmill was the brick-built tapering towermill which varied in height from about fifty feet to ninety feet and was surmounted by an ogee cap carrying four to eight sails and also the fantail . |
| 11 | This was confirmed in the 1987 study and was acknowledged by the Authority , as we have seen . |
| 12 | The torpedo then sank under a moored target and was fired by a time fuse which allowed MTB 74 time to get clear . |
| 13 | The machine was examined by Home Office scientific experts in Huntingdon who found it used a battery-operated self-arming mechanism and was fired by a motor . |
| 14 | The conference was attended by scientists from both rainforest and industrialized countries and was organized by the UN 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . |
| 15 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 16 | The smile faded , and was replaced by a frown . |
| 17 | This procedure resulted in considerable damage to the sphincter and was replaced by a technique of abdominal mucosectomy and sutured ileoanastomosis for the next 58 operations . |
| 18 | The minority liberal-conservative coalition government in power since October 1989 broke up in October 1990 and was replaced by a minority Labour government in November [ see p. 37868 ] . |
| 19 | The dramatic and mythological language disappeared and was replaced by a doctrine more fitted to legalism or the language of the ledger : salvation came to be seen as a question of balancing the books , or paying debts to the debtor . |
| 20 | The Morris as a tractor was unsatisfactory , and was replaced by a Roberts platform truck or trolley , which proved to be underpowered , but ideally manoeuvrable . |
| 21 | The Manpower Services Commission was itself dissolved in 1985 and was replaced by a body which took over most of its functions , called the Training Commission . |
| 22 | But suddenly the smile left his face and was replaced by an expression of hopelessness , fear and horror . |
| 23 | ‘ The picture dissolved and was replaced by an image of the three climbers : almost at the end of the knotted rope , a slim man in black combat clothes , hanging with the agility of a spider , keen eyes scanning the gulley for cover ; above him a young woman , similarly dressed , eyes bright with excitement , talking and gesticulating ; and above her a giant of a man , his body barely covered by his torn clothing , waving a bizarre weapon , grinning like a wolf . |
| 24 | After a while she came out and was replaced by the other . |
| 25 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
| 26 | After a while their nervousness vanished and was replaced by the glory and wonder of each other . |
| 27 | With the decline of the mining industry and the isolation of the MFGB after the General Strike , it could no longer retain its dominant position and was replaced by the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 28 | I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters . |
| 29 | In the Twenties , he was an inspiration to the young muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco and was revered by the Surrealists . |
| 30 | The European Convention on Human Rights was signed at Rome in 1950 and was ratified by the United Kingdom in 1951 . |