Example sentences of "it [vb past] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 2 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 3 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in its home area of Macedonia it had been replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet , named after Cyril , even though he probably played no direct part in its development . |
| 5 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 6 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
| 7 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |
| 8 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 9 | Well when when it was first read by erm it was mentioned that it had been written by the Green Party by radio four and the Guardian and the Independent . |
| 10 | We had often seen its crumbling ramparts from a distance , and had assumed it was Dutch , but now learnt that it had been built by the islanders , long before the Europeans . |
| 11 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 12 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 13 | The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear . |
| 14 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 15 | It had been made by a famous couturier . |
| 16 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 17 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 18 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 19 | His hair was untidy , as though it had been blown by the wind , and there were tiny flecks of moisture on the rough Harris tweed material of his jacket . |
| 20 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 21 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 22 | The constitution would be ratified in a national referendum once it had been adopted by the National Assembly . |
| 23 | It had been followed by a motion from Bruce Kent , chair of CND , to reduce Britain 's defence spending to the European average of Nato countries . |
| 24 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 25 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 26 | Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland . |
| 27 | Before the formation of the Labour Party it had been represented by the Independent Labour Party and the Social Democratic Federation working within the unions for the formation of a party representing labour . |
| 28 | A full cabinet reshuffle two weeks later seemed , at first sight , to be designed to appease the Falangist sector , for it included the creation of a separate Ministry of Labour ( it had been covered by the Ministry of Agriculture thereto ) and placed a hard-line Falangist , José Antonio Girón de Velasco , at its head . |
| 29 | Settlement of the disagreement was only announced on Feb. 15 after it had been ratified by the Cabinet and the ANC executive committee . |
| 30 | The Labour Party , on the contrary , welcomed the result , feeling that it had been vindicated by the considerable impression made on a difficult seat . |