Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would-be actors and actresses were rarely taken seriously by the Movement . |
| 2 | We were most put out by the way they turned it down . ’ |
| 3 | Demonstrating fishermen were fiercely criticised yesterday by the fisheries minister , David Curry , who told them not to resume protests against cheap imports . |
| 4 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 5 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 6 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 8 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 9 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 10 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |
| 11 | Police in Cam gave chase for a short distance but were easily shaken off by the robbers stolen Sierra Cosworth . |
| 12 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 13 | Their weapons were promptly snatched up by the Secte Rouge , who added their own shooting to the confusion . |
| 14 | Heavy-eyed , yawning and bewildered men appeared in doorways , and were promptly cut down by the attackers . |
| 15 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 16 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 17 | Whether or not , as some allege , food supplies were deliberately run down by the authorities , by autumn there was plausible reason enough to deploy troops to urban and rural areas to assist in food distribution and ‘ relieve bottlenecks ’ . |
| 18 | There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk . |
| 19 | Demonstrations were also broken up by the police in Annaba , Constantine , Bordj Bou-Arreridj and Chlef . |
| 20 | The October Surprise allegations were also strengthened inadvertently by the efforts of former President Ronald Reagan to deny the story . |
| 21 | Thus the angular and straight lines drawn by the legs were also drawn simultaneously by the arms and hands , which were allowed to cross the centre line of the body , very often with a twist sideways at the waist . |
| 22 | But attempts by Markovic to implement a tight monetary policy were undermined by the secret printing in January 1991 of dinars with a face value equivalent to US$1,600 million by the Serbian authorities ; similar printings without federal authorization were also carried out by the Croatian , Macedonian and Montenegran authorities [ see also pp. 37866-67 ] . |
| 23 | 3 , although this middling category were clearly affected by the economic crisis of the early 1930s when their profits and rents were probably affected greatly by the Wall Street Crash and the ensuing impact upon industry and finance throughout the world economy . |
| 24 | These survived until about 8000 years ago , when they were probably wiped out by the first human settlers . |
| 25 | They were probably helped also by the progress of cartography and a growing general familiarity with maps : the great Cassini one of France , begun in 1750 , was completed at the outbreak of the revolution . |
| 26 | The results were later played down by the company . |
| 27 | His allegations against Mr Reid were later backed up by the villa 's then deputy charge nurse , Karen Spinner . |
| 28 | Caughey 's statement paralleled the ideas about ‘ British standards of justice ’ and the responsibility of the British government under the Government of Ireland Act which were later put forward by the CSJ and the CDU , but in Caughey 's case they were able to coexist with a strong commitment to republicanism . |
| 29 | Indeed some of these reforms were later put forward by the Hussites but with the Hussite Wars , this great period of cathedral building came to an end . |
| 30 | This river gets its name from the time of the first exploration of the island , when some of Zarco 's men were nearly swept away by the river but were rescued by other members of the party in a small boat . |