Example sentences of "and was [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was confirmed in the 1987 study and was acknowledged by the Authority , as we have seen . |
| 3 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 4 | After a while she came out and was replaced by the other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a while their nervousness vanished and was replaced by the glory and wonder of each other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It also marked the continuous existence of St John 's Masonic Lodge No 134 , and was conducted by the Rector , Canon John The special preacher was Canon Stanley Coulson , Provincial Grand Chaplain of Londonderry and Donegal Provincial Grand Lodge . |
| 9 | The museum for contemporary art , which cost DM48 million to build and was funded by the city of Frankfurt , needs an injection of at least DM250,000 ( £86,000 ; $155,000 ) to keep going . |
| 10 | The second fire occurred inside the concrete casing covering the damaged reactor and was caused by the ignition of a wooden structure in the ventilation circuit . |
| 11 | Killion looked in the menu for an answer and was saved by the arrival of the waiter . |
| 12 | When the order came she reached down to help an older woman to her feet and passed her the well-wrapped bundle , then she turned her back on the men and was swallowed by the mass of female prisoners . |
| 13 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 14 | Before the first shots rang out , Adam had turned the shallow bend and was shielded by the safety of the trees . |
| 15 | It was the family home of the Dryden family and was visited by the poet John Dryden . |
| 16 | The next morning ( Sunday ) I walked into the valley of the Laguna Grande de Gredos , heading for the Elola Refuge to join the rescue team , and was heartened by the sight of a helicopter floating between the menacing crags overlooking a serene glacial lake . |
| 17 | This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics , information theory and operations research . |
| 18 | After war work in France she moved to Oxford in 1920 and was inspired by the teaching of R. R. Marett [ q.v. ] to a distinction in her Oxford diploma in anthropology before returning to France with a Mary Ewart scholarship ( 1922–3 ) and introductions to leading archaeologists . |
| 19 | Once , after a long negotiation , Swire invited Bevin for a drink and a sandwich at the City of London Club , and was reprimanded by the chairman for having brought ‘ a working man into the club ’ . |
| 20 | But it is five months since Mr Hussein swallowed his neighbour and was instructed by the Security Council to disgorge it . |
| 21 | She began practising midwifery in London around 1610 and was licensed by the bishop of London before 1634 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless Poland was still encumbered by a poorly developed industrial sector , a primitive , almost feudal , agricultural system , an under-funded banking sector and a poorly integrated railway system , and was hampered by the fact that it paid out 40 per cent of Gross National Income ( approximately 28 per cent of all government expenditure ) to maintain an army that was second in size only to that of Russia . |
| 23 | He escaped , and was joined by the lady . |
| 24 | The motto engraved on the wall of the temple at Delphi was ‘ Know Thyself ’ , and was adopted by the philosopher Socrates as the basis for the study of philosophy . |
| 25 | A JP of Middlesex and Westminster for many years , he searched for papists and for popish books , and was employed by the committee of the House of Lords for the examination of witnesses , dominated by Shaftesbury . |
| 26 | She arrived off the head at around 1905 and was asked by the coastguard to search the area off Coldingham Bay , in a southerly direction . |
| 27 | Motivated by rather more than just military considerations , the EFA was an exercise in European unity , and was governed by the need to give a ‘ fair share ’ of the contracts to each of the participating countries . |
| 28 | Julia asked her and was touched by the way Felicity 's face lit up . |
| 29 | On 4 September 1989 , while serving that sentence , Price , who had previously made a statement to the police , appeared before Senior District Judge Barbro Sjôsten sitting in the Gôteborg City Court , and was examined by the district prosecutor . |
| 30 | Sharp denied one charge of assault causing actual bodily harm and was cleared by the jury but was convicted of affray and conditionally discharged . |