Example sentences of "and they [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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1 | And they were supported by the British . |
2 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
3 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
4 | Cambridge looked anything but promotion contenders and they were flattered by the final scoreline . |
5 | Then the sun burned on the water ahead and they were dazzled by the sudden brightness . |
6 | Delegates from fifteen of the thirty-three branches attended , and they were joined by the officers and all members of the executive committee . |
7 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
8 | [ These proposals were widely opposed , and they were abandoned by the new Conservative government in 1979 , although much groundwork had been done in the meantime on the legal and administrative aspects of implementing them ( see 1979 Benn , 1979 Dickson ) . ] |
9 | Only six out of sixty-two leading clubs paid their shareholders any dividend in the season 1908–9 and they were restricted by the FA from paying a dividend of more than 5 per cent . |
10 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
11 | S and they were paid by the church ? |
12 | ‘ When I arived he had led his two sisters out and they were standing by the front door . |
13 | The conservatives asked to be represented on that committee and they were refused by the ruling groups . |
14 | Keith Richardson says it was a brilliant performance and they were helped by the tremendous support from the Gloucester fans . |