Example sentences of "were [verb] by the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in Re Hammond and Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 , arbitrators were designated by the parties ' agreement to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by an outgoing tenant of a market garden to his landlord . |
| 2 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 3 | In a number of schools there remain underlying — and sometimes still overt — conflicts that were provoked by the Teachers ' Action of 1986–7 . |
| 4 | Approvals were made by the Bondholders ' Committee , usually as a retrospective notification at their Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 6 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 7 | The king 's needs , however , were challenged by the popes ' own obligations to reward their growing army of servants . |
| 8 | In view of the history of rural housing it was therefore somewhat ironic to find in 1976 that changes to the tied cottage legislation were opposed by the farmers ' lobby on the grounds that there were insufficient safeguards against local authorities refusing to meet their housing responsibilities ! |
| 9 | Secondly , we were struck by the Scots ' awareness of the beauty of their own culture and history , this well reflected in the music that they showed us . |
| 10 | These zones were identified by the observers ' fairly casual assessment of the dominant species in each locality . |