Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 2 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 3 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 4 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 5 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 6 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 7 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 8 | Local elections were held on Dec. 8 — the first elections since the military coup of 1983 — and were contested by the two government-sanctioned parties . |
| 9 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 10 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 11 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 12 | We visited both city and rural programmes and were struck by the amazing capacity of the people to overcome adversity , both natural disasters and the extremes of poverty . |
| 13 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |
| 14 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 15 | These were known as Part III Authorities ( and were abolished by the 1944 Act ) . |
| 16 | The modifications were regarded by the incoming regime as a considerable improvement on the original military proposals and were backed by the main conservative group , the National Renewal Party ( Partido de Renovación Nacional — PRN ) . |
| 17 | The majority of the miners had never claimed state benefits before and were intimidated by the whole process . |
| 18 | We paid £16 return per adult ( half-price for children ten and under ) for the three-hour ride and were greeted by the Foreign Legion parachuting out of the sky as we approached their home base of Calvi . |
| 19 | The universities , using an antiquated syllabus , turned out theologians , doctors , and lawyers and were dominated by the self-recruiting major colleges ( colegios mayores ) . |
| 20 | This was the view taken in Nutricia v Zuid-Hollandse Conservenfabriek ( OJL 376/22 ) and was confirmed by the European Court of Justice in Remia & Nutricia v Commission ( Case 42/84 [ 1987 ] 1 CMLR 1 ) . |
| 21 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 22 | At a plenum of the Georgian central committee the following day the party first secretary , Dzumber Patiashvili , resigned and was replaced by the former head of the Georgian KGB , Givi Gumbaridze ; the Georgian prime minister and head of state also tendered their resignations . |
| 23 | In the course of the depressed 1930s Gramola disappeared and was replaced by the distinguished HMV label in distinctive dark blue . |
| 24 | The Minister of State for Trade and Tourism Jonathan Peters was moved to the Prime Minister 's Office in order to assist with foreign affairs , and was replaced by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister 's Office Stuart Nanton . |
| 25 | The plum-pudding model passed instantly away and was replaced by the solar system model of planetary electrons encircling a central positively charged nuclear " sun " . |
| 26 | He had failed to notice the approach of the goods train , which was being pushed backwards , and was hit by the leading wagon after stepping onto the track . |
| 27 | The Queen flew into Lanacka Airport and was met by the Greek Cypriot President , Mr Clarides . |
| 28 | Rafiq 's voice was calling something , like a chant , and was answered by the other voices . |
| 29 | He was on leave from his doctoral programme in Taiwan and was funded by the Washington-based Committee on Scholarly Exchange with the People 's Republic of China . |
| 30 | This belief was widespread in the NUM , and was demonstrated by the overwhelming support for Scargill in his 1981 campaign for the presidency , in which fighting pit closures — and thus the jobs and communities of the miners — was the central theme ( Taylor , 1984 ) . |