Example sentences of "it was [verb] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was dismissed by the critics until McCarthy and the Terror were safely passed . |
| 3 | It was attended by the Presidents of Kenya and Uganda and representatives of the Governments of Germany , the United States of America , France , Italy , Saudi Arabia , Egypt , Libya , Yemen , Nigeria , Ethiopia , Sudan , Oman , the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , and China and of the Arab League , the Organisation of African Unity and the European Economic Community . |
| 4 | It was attended by the Presidents of Botswana , Mozambique , Namibia , Tanzania , Zambia and Zimbabwe , and senior representatives from Angola , Lesotho , Malawi , Namibia and Swaziland . |
| 5 | The village of Mojacar is enchanting and provokes a desire to discover more about its fascinating history — how it was conquered by the Moors and recaptured centuries later by the Catholic Kings . |
| 6 | It was heard by the men in the inn , and in a second they were out in the road , running into the darkness of the fields . |
| 7 | This is not to say that all care orders were welcomed by the families ; and there is clearly the possibility that , while this intervention was favoured by the parents , it was resented by the children . |
| 8 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 9 | It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued . |
| 10 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 11 | It was never used by the Greeks , who divided the month into three parts of ten days each , but it was employed by the Jews ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 12 | It was regarded by the authorities as the latest stage of a blood-feud which had begun over the purchase of a house , and which had already in March resulted in three deaths [ see p. 38840 ] . |
| 13 | Of the ‘ Town Arms ’ it was complained by the police that , ‘ No respectable person was seen to enter from one end of the week to the other ’ . |
| 14 | So it was developed by the ladies of the day for the men to do their work and they developed their special patterns like Arran stitches , which I 'm going to show you now , like Fair Isle stitches . |
| 15 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 16 | It was decided by the authorities that the building of the dam across the valley was a ‘ regrettable necessity ’ — but they determined to make as satisfactory a job of it as they could . |
| 17 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 18 | It was given by the children of the Sunday school during restoration work in 1908 . |
| 19 | Since it was a beverage blessed by the great Dickens , it was perceived by the Lionisers as an entirely suitable drink for the ladies , and by the time Rose and Auguste arrived , another merry night was well in progress . |
| 20 | It was made by the Women 's Engineering Society ( WES ) with the aid of the Community Programme Unit . |
| 21 | It was underpinned by the interests and aspirations of its members themselves . |
| 22 | It was underpinned by the interests and aspirations of its members themselves . |
| 23 | It was followed by the deprivations of greedy Swiss , repressive Austrians , revolutionary French , barbaric Germans and the huge , unpaid army of tourists and expatriates who live off the land and commit their own atrocities . |
| 24 | It was hunted by the Indians , but was finally almost wiped out by Europeans in the nineteenth century , partly as a strategy to drive the Indians off the land . |
| 25 | Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers . |
| 26 | The island itself — its people and their occupations , its geology , fauna and flora , its architecture — would , it was hoped by the parents , widen horizons that a too intense dedication to music might narrow . |
| 27 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 28 | ‘ It was built by the Romans for our Yorkshire lass Cartimandua — ‘ |
| 29 | It was acknowledged by the schools that this narrowness was precarious , given staff mobility . |
| 30 | It was assured by the broadcasters that the full range of local interest and opinions represented in the House would be reflected in regional programming . |