Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 2 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 3 | Prison Department divisions were widely criticized by governors for appearing to operate in isolation , each pursuing their own areas of interest without regard to the priorities of other divisions and establishment needs . |
| 4 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 5 | In 1989 mines run by the state-owned Centromín mining concern ( a leading producer of zinc , lead , silver and copper ) were badly affected by sabotage by Sendero Luminoso , which caused the main mine , Morococha , to close throughout September . |
| 6 | In I 977 , there was another strike : the day after the workers occupied the factory , they were forcibly evicted by members of the armed forces , the National Guard and the Treasury Police , who used tear-gas bombs against them . |
| 7 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 8 | The Masai were expressly charged by God with responsibility for the world 's cattle . |
| 9 | any of his books were translated into foreign languages and were avidly read by Christians on the Continent . |
| 10 | Dealers were constantly pestered by journalists of national newspapers . |
| 11 | In their cramped and insanitary dwellings , often ill-fed as they were , the poor of Frome were constantly beset by outbreaks of typhus ; known variously as ‘ Irish Fever , or ‘ Gaol Fever ’ , it frequently picked off not only the inmates of the country , s overcrowded prisons , but also the hapless judges who had to try the prisoners . |
| 12 | The French mathematician Descartes remarked on the similarity between this sort of toy and the behaviour of animals , arguing that the latter were nothing more than automatons whose reactions were constantly triggered by events in the environment ( Jeannerod 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Jane Smith 's murine cries were nicely illustrated by way of their electronic imitation . |
| 14 | In fact it is arguable whether such dualistic conditions ever existed anyway : marginal groups which could not be assimilated into the category of the working class were merely relegated by Marx to the Lumpenproletariat . |
| 15 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 16 | On the whole , feminists throughout the period agreed that women were better suited by nature to home-related tasks than were men . |
| 17 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 18 | Perhaps one or two of them were so blinded by hatred of Lloyd George as to believe that the move would still show up his impotence . |
| 19 | In reality the key positions of power in both politics and the law were normally held by men in their forties and fifties . |
| 20 | Rather , they argued ad hoc : their arguments about eternal truth were generally stimulated by resentment at some threat to their direct interests , when they were presented with dilemmas , with conflicts of loyalties . |
| 21 | The Templar lands were declared to be lay fee and therefore forfeit to the crown on the dissolution of the Order ; any attempts to challenge this were soon quashed by writs of prohibition . |
| 22 | The vital questions were aptly summarised by Jacobs on 19 September . |
| 23 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
| 24 | They were comfortably beaten by Leicestershire on their Championship debut and will plainly find it hard to bowl sides out , but against that they won four of their first five one-day matches and indicated they could be serious contenders for a trophy . |
| 25 | However , in both industries other rules , relating to the status of the actors and their organisations , bargaining representation and union security ( closed shop ) arrangements , were largely influenced by features of the national industrial relations environment within each country . |
| 26 | The LBS model started as a member of the traditional group of ‘ Keynesian ’ models in which movements in output were largely explained by movements in demand . |
| 27 | Little progress was reported during the talks , which were largely overshadowed by events in the occupied territories . |
| 28 | Mr Hill and Mr Middleton were conditionally discharged by magistrates at Amersham . |
| 29 | Contributions to their efforts snowballed and they were handsomely supported by donations of superb prizes for fund-raising events , including a holiday for four in Tenerife , a cricket bat autographed by the England team and a 1-iron from top professional golfer David Gilford which he used in winning the Dunhill World Cup . |
| 30 | Cutwater 's charter bookings were usually made by agencies in Fort Lauderdale and London , then faxed to McIllvanney 's yard in Freeport where the boats were docked and maintained . |