Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 2 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 3 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 4 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 5 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 6 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 7 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 8 | Her chin was tipped up by a ruthless finger . |
| 9 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 10 | RT-PCR was carried out by a modified Wang method ( 2 ) measuring optical density using a Sun Spark Station ( Visage software , Millipore , US ) ( data not shown ) . |
| 11 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 12 | That survey was carried out by a court-appointed expert and completed by an inspection of the museum on 14 February by order of the instructing magistrate in charge of the affair . |
| 13 | The special investigation was carried out by a private detective commissioned by Central News South . |
| 14 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 15 | The RHA 's review was carried out by a small team of experts led by a psychiatrist and including a senior nurse and a senior social services representative . |
| 16 | The revolution was carried out by a small élite , as was the transformation that followed . |
| 17 | The work was carried out by a joint team from Florida University and the chemicals company , Monsanto , which has first rights to the work . |
| 18 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 19 | This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic . |
| 20 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 21 | Allied to the recommendations contained in the Seabrook Report extensive work was carried out by the Legal Aid and Fees Committee for the substantial extension of standard fees . |
| 22 | The most comprehensive study of US media coverage of the riots was carried out by the famous Kerner Commission ( Kerner , 1968 ) , which examined the style and content of television and newspaper reports for 1967 . |
| 23 | Legislation requiring the registration of houses taking children for adoption followed , but respectable working class women resented this inspection , especially when it was carried out by the Poor Law Relieving Officer . |
| 24 | An airlift of 14,087 Ethiopian Jews — widely known as Falashas ( a name they rejected ) — was carried out by the Israeli authorities on May 24-25 , in anticipation of the fall of the Ethiopian government . |
| 25 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 26 | The return of the army was carried out by the new defence minister Manuel Azana — ; he was determined to break the political autonomy of the army . |
| 27 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 28 | Though the election was carried out by the usual X-vote system which provided scope for tactical voting and complaints about vote splitting , it was generally accepted as a crushing defeat for Sunningdale . |
| 29 | Is he aware that a similar campaign was carried out by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) against trust hospitals in England , which have now delivered more patient care , cut waiting lists and been innovative in the service that they offer to patients ? |
| 30 | The study , based on thousands of cases in Britain and the US , was carried out by the Aids-prevention charity , Lifeshield Foundation . |