Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dead snakes were crushed and suffocated by the sheer weight of their fellows . |
| 2 | The training committee continued to advise the training officer , but all real initiatives were overturned or dismissed by the management committee . |
| 3 | The appeals were heard and rejected by the same appeal committee on the same day . |
| 4 | Most of his treasures were catalogued and stored by the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt ( national heritage ministry ) and were partly recovered after the war . |
| 5 | Though it was shot on a strict schedule , not in the looser manner of its two predecessors , some scenes and lines were improvised or contributed by the actors ; for instance , Rhodes 's last words to the zombies as they eat his guts , ‘ Choke on ‘ em ! ’ |
| 6 | But the men were blinded and confused by the snowstorm . |
| 7 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 8 | The debris scores were totalled and divided by the number of surfaces scored to obtain the debris index . |
| 9 | Previously existing fascist groups , which had been oriented towards Italy , were bullied or out-organized by the BUF which followed German Nazi example in becoming increasingly anti-Semitic . |
| 10 | a number of research programmes were instituted and co–ordinated by the Department of the Environment . |
| 11 | The elections were dominated and won by the rightists . |
| 12 | Opposition MPs claimed that the move was just another way of ‘ putting the boot in ’ to the unions , which they said were loathed and detested by the Government . |
| 13 | Fishing vessels registered in the register of British vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 were owned or managed by the applicants , companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom and their directors and shareholders , most of whom were Spanish nationals . |
| 14 | In October 1346 , at Neville 's Cross , near Durham , they were met and defeated by the defensive forces of the region , the king of the Scots , David II , being taken prisoner . |
| 15 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 16 | Likewise the Secondary Science Curriculum Review adopted a periphery-centre strategy whereby the products of local or school-based teachers ' working groups were evaluated and published by the central project team . |
| 17 | They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ? |
| 18 | Recently in Lhasa , several women were shot and killed by the Chinese military , one teenager in her own home where she was preparing a meal . |
| 19 | Just hours before four Catholic workmen were shot and killed by the UFF in the seaside village of Castlerock , on Ulster 's north Antrim coast . |
| 20 | Precisely the same thing was happening around the Lancashire towns also , where the ancient commons were enclosed and grabbed by the private speculator for building , as at Oldham . |
| 21 | Both of these staining reagents were used as directed by the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 22 | What gave legitimacy to these companies was the theory that as creatures of the state they were supervised and regulated by the state . |
| 23 | Although each site was controlled by the operator , they were supervised and inspected by the Department of Transport . |
| 24 | The exhibitions were facilitated and curated by the Mappin Art Gallery , Sheffield and will be on show at the gallery until December 1992 before touring to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum , Coventry in 1993 . |
| 25 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 26 | From the first century AD , the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans , so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel . |
| 27 | The scripts were inspected and discussed by the liaison group . |
| 28 | We know from the temple archives at Knossos that the geographical reach of the administrators was exceptional , so it is possible that ivory carvers in Palaikastro were employed and controlled by the Zakro priests . |
| 29 | In England wild storms swept the country , and commuters were infuriated and inconvenienced by the ASLEF dispute . |
| 30 | We do not know whether the metals were mined and smelted by the smith , or purchased from miners . |