Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 2 | Of the remaining 40 cases , 38 complied strictly with their diet and this was supported by an improvement in the morphology of repeat small intestinal biopsy specimens or symptoms , or both and weight and laboratory indices . |
| 3 | In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs . |
| 4 | This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail . |
| 5 | This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) . |
| 6 | This was funded by the Van Leer Foundation in the Hague and carried out under the aegis of the Child Development Unit in Bristol University . |
| 7 | This was replaced by a stone structure , only partly examined in the excavated area . |
| 8 | Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself . |
| 9 | During the thirties ( presumably after the end of prohibition ) this was replaced by the can sealed by crimping and with the label printed directly on to the metal ( figure 7.3d ) . |
| 10 | All this was recognized by an MBE . |
| 11 | This was recognized by the City of London polytechnic Learning Resources Centre about five years ago , when virtually the same orientation content was presented in five different self-instructional modes ( video.tape , programmed instruction , tape-slide , audio-tape and chart ) . |
| 12 | This was personified by the ascendancy in the political sphere of Stanley Baldwin and the rise in the economic sphere of Montagu Norman , the Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 13 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 14 | Thomas suspected this was caused by the fuel rods from the space station exploding on impact with the surface . |
| 15 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
| 16 | He said the only explanation of this was given by the boy to his five year old brother . |
| 17 | In 1941 Lord Reith , as Minister of Works and Buildings , asked the LCC for a reconstruction plan for the County of London ; this was undertaken by the LCC architect , J.H. Forshaw , in conjunction with Patrick Abercrombie , then professor of Town Planning at University College , London . |
| 18 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 19 | This was precipitated by the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970 . |
| 20 | This was indicated by the dispatch of British warships to the region , the construction of a major base on Diego Garcia , and the desire of the British cabinet ‘ to set up its own rapid deployment corps , which will be used to support the convenient regimes in that region and suppress the national liberation movements there ’ . |
| 21 | The end of this was indicated by the appearance of a table of numbers ; this was a record of the average response time for both Yes and No responses for all 6 memory set sizes . |
| 22 | This was answered by the production of full-length riot shields and , as the throwing intensified , mounted horses with baton-wielding riders were sent in . |
| 23 | This was demonstrated by the absence of any correlation between the severity of the gastritis or epithelial surface damage and the bacterial ammonia production . |
| 24 | There is an enormous variety of good material available for primary children : this was demonstrated by the length of the list of authors published in our first Report . |
| 25 | This was demonstrated by an experiment reported in Harris ( 1977 ) in which both animacy and discourse theme were manipulated . |
| 26 | This was tempered by a commitment to run banking policy , until the treaty was signed , through a Gosbank Council comprising Gosbank chair Viktor Gerashchenko and the heads of the state banks in the union republics . |
| 27 | But this was tempered by the disclosure that 35 per cent of firms expect to cut jobs over the same period . |
| 28 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 29 | This was determined by the price range , the fact that the vehicle was sold as new and by the expectations raised by the description " Range Rover " . |
| 30 | This was epitomized by the youth style that underpinned this stage of the sixties : Mod : |