Example sentences of "it was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two years it was condemned by the Commission of Enquiry into Disturbances appointed by the Labour Government as ‘ out-moded at birth ’ . |
| 2 | Kirner , a former state Education Minister and the leader of the party 's Socialist Left parliamentary faction , was considerably further to the left than her predecessor and , whilst her election was welcomed by the state 's strong trade union movement , it was condemned by the opposition Liberal Party and the business community . |
| 3 | He stared wildly up at her cage roof but though it was buckled by the fall of the tree branch it was still intact and she could not escape . |
| 4 | And a fire officers car was also damaged after it was rammed by a gypsy vehicle . |
| 5 | Lane 's Star continued till 1831 when it was absorbed by the Albion . |
| 6 | On 31 May de Gaulle formed his cabinet and on 1 June presented it to the National Assembly , where it was confirmed by the margin of 329 votes to 224 ( with the majority composed of conservatives , centrists , and half the socialist deputies ) . |
| 7 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 8 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 9 | This was not what English food exporters wanted but , as it kept down the cost of provisioning the sugar plantations , it was supported by the sugar industry in England . |
| 10 | Whether the ball was over the line before it was crossed by the Newcastle inside-right , Richardson , remained a matter for argument for years after . |
| 11 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 12 | Henry Yaxlee 's stable lay west of the House , at the far end of the village , where it was hidden by a belt of tall chestnuts . |
| 13 | This is what was left of his council house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning for the SECOND time in 2 weeks . |
| 14 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 15 | It was compiled by the university 's research support and industrial liaison office and describes projects in about 50 departments . |
| 16 | On 6 December , as soon as was decently possible , it was conveyed in a funeral wagon to St Stephen 's Cathedral , where it was met by the funeral party and blessed by the priest in a chapel on the north side . |
| 17 | But this equitable separate estate existed only where it was created by a will or settlement , or in the comparatively rare cases where the Court of Chancery exercised its jurisdiction to compel a husband to make a settlement upon his wife . |
| 18 | It was created by the enclosing of some 3,000 acres of Sherwood Forest in 1707 . |
| 19 | Port Salut first appeared in 1873 , when it was created by an order of Trappist monks . |
| 20 | There was a certain bitter anger in his voice , but it was obvious that it was caused by a tenderness for his grandmother . |
| 21 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 22 | It was caused by the IRA , which had chosen that week to leave a couple of bombs on British Rail mainline stations . |
| 23 | It was caused by an AA shell that did n't explode . |
| 24 | Put hens in his bed and he come in one night and there was a s a man a stray man you ken an effigy of a man like and it was hanging by the neck from a rafter in the house . |
| 25 | It was illustrated by a picture of Bernie Grant , the black Labour candidate , with the hairy body of a gorilla . |
| 26 | Such a bust was a feature of the strip of mosaic between rooms 3 and 4 at Newton St. Loe ( where it was bordered by a scroll pattern , comparable to the decoration either side of the chirho monogram in a pavement from Frampton , Dorset ( Lysons I ( 1813 ) , iii , pI . |
| 27 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 28 | ‘ The car , the one the girl was in , if it was a Zil as she says , then it was seen by a policeman , ’ Myeloski told Duncan . |
| 29 | It was seen by the father solely as manipulative behaviour aimed at him and his wife . |
| 30 | ‘ It was done by a friend , ’ said Charlotte . |