Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | foreshadowed the ‘ construction ’ approach in Lonrho by treating the common law criminal contempt as if it were created by a hypothetical enactment and asking what intention was to be inferred , with regard to civil liability , from the exercise of the contempt jurisdiction . |
| 2 | It was condemned by the English bishops , who found twenty-nine heretical propositions in it . |
| 3 | It was confirmed by the Constitutional Tribunal on Jan. 30 , 1991 , after much discussion , including opposition from the Orthodox Church and secular associations . |
| 4 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 5 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 6 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 7 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 8 | It was struck by a crowded express train from Paddington travelling at a hundred miles an hour along the Great Western line near Swindon . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ We do n't believe it was caused by a normal operational failure . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 11 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 12 | In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) . |
| 13 | It was taped by a Swiss peasant . |
| 14 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 15 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 16 | It was replaced by a four-party coalition under the Social Democratic leader , Poul Nyrup Rasmussen . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for Mosley , although the economic crisis worsened in 1931 , bringing about the fall of the deeply divided Labour government , it was replaced by a National Coalition made up of Conservatives , the majority of the Liberals and a few Labour MPs under Macdonald , Snowdon and Thomas . |
| 18 | In the meantime an airship had caught fire in the USA , ending the use there of the lethal explosive hydrogen as a lifting gas ; it was replaced by the safer helium . |
| 19 | Captain Rhodes ( Joseph Pilato ) and crazy scientists appear in this version , but it was too huge and ambitious , even with cuts , so it was replaced by the final script as actually used in the film . |
| 20 | Early in the night of 617 June there was a great summer storm , with thunder , lightning and heavy rain ; when the storm subsided , it was replaced by the uninterrupted flashes of bursting shells . |
| 21 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 22 | After the war the whistle recommenced until around 1965 , when it was replaced by an electric siren ( still in use today ) which calls the men at start and finish times only , from the canteen roof . |
| 23 | In the morning it was achieved by the Professional Fred Rhodes , and after lunch by Mrs. Quain ‘ but from the ladies ’ tee ! ’ the following year the 16th was holed in one again and earned the Standard 's comment as a ‘ feat which is seldom heard of ’ . |
| 24 | Only occasionally was the river solid for most of its width — more often than not it was fringed by a thin strip of ice , our path . |
| 25 | It was chaired by the ubiquitous Beaverbrook , and consisted of Lords Cranborne and Leathers ( Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Minister of Transport , respectively ) , Sir Stafford Cripps ( Minister for Aircraft Production ) , and Sir Archibald Sinclair ( Secretary of State for Air ) . |
| 26 | Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure . |
| 27 | It was believed by the other people in his street , the owners of the other semi-detached red-brick villas with Victorian stained glass over the front doors and children 's tricycles in the halls , that Felix was a Communist spy . |
| 28 | The invasion never came and the tower was left to decay until 1850 when it was renovated by the Royal Engineers and occupied by artillerymen from Leith until 1869 . |
| 29 | They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians . |
| 30 | It was dug by an escaping prisoner in the old days ; my aunt knows all about it . |