Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 3 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 4 | The first years of nationalisation were thus regularly punctuated by government demands for consideration of rationing by price or by direct load limitation . |
| 5 | This point was echoed by the farmworkers ' district officer for Suffolk , Margaret Holmes , who said that those on low pay in rural areas were always worst hit by fuel tax increases . |
| 6 | The Formula One Class races were once again sponsored by Southwest Airlines . |
| 7 | Services were clearly less affected by import penetration than manufacturing ; and between 1955 and 1975 their share of the world total fell from 25 to 15 per cent , which compares very favourably with the performance of manufactured goods [ Sargent , 1979 ] . |
| 8 | BMK 's offices in Birmingham and London were both completely destroyed by bombing . |
| 9 | The police were also hard pressed by criticism and ridicule in 1856 . |
| 10 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 11 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 12 | For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability , portability , uniformity and ease of recognition ; Cowries probably came into use as currency as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 13 | Abundance thus rapidly acquired by those who were ignorant of its proper application hastened the progress of luxury and licentiousness , and the lower orders were almost universally corrupted by profusion and depravity scarcely to be credited by those who are strangers to our district . |
| 14 | True drama unfolded in the third round of the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy for more than one reason , as reigning champions David Lloyd , Slazenger Heston were almost certainly dethroned by event newcomers Royal Berkshire , and Team Excel Bath missed out on a golden opportunity to displace last year 's Area 8 champions West Hants . |
| 15 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 16 | Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy . |
| 17 | It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out . |
| 18 | Political attitudes were very largely determined by partisanship , but not completely . |