Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 2 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 3 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 4 | The second camp was inhabited largely by a group of sceptical , defensive Third World governments , who often refused to consider that they had a population problem at all . |
| 5 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 6 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 7 | I think I 'd have a siege mentality if I was pursued relentlessly by a pack of slavering tabloid reporters baying for blood . |
| 8 | Then , just as Tabitha was opening her mouth and wondering what she was supposed to say , a hideous crackling noise came over the robot 's speaker , and its picture was torn up by a burst of interference . |
| 9 | From the summer of 1869 onwards the process was carried forward by a combination of the Emperor 's will and by its own momentum . |
| 10 | The next afternoon Colin was carried downstairs by a man servant , and put in his wheelchair outside the front door . |
| 11 | Most of the work for this momentous event was carried out by a sub-committee for which no records exist . |
| 12 | The most important recent investigation was carried out by a Committee of Enquiry chaired by Lord Elton . |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that such specific parts were targeted , useless to anyone else , seems to indicate that this dastardly deed was carried out by a steam preservation ‘ colleague ’ with a view to fitting to a similar GWR-designed loco — quite sickening if so . |
| 14 | The attack was carried out by a unit composed of fighters from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party — the Higher Council . |
| 15 | Airey Neave 's exercise was carried out by a combination of promises and flattery , and was brilliantly masterminded . |
| 16 | The task of smuggling and distributing illegal literature and co-ordinating local cells and committees was carried out by a network of itinerant activists . |
| 17 | The fountain-head and settling tank of the aqueduct were also rebuilt ; two fragmentary inscriptions would suggest that the work was carried out by a detachment of Legio XX , possibly the same detachment that was responsible for the granaries . |
| 18 | What may well prove to be India 's last round-up of wild elephants was carried out by a tribe who have specialized in elephant catching and training for centuries . |
| 19 | The transplant was carried out by a team of surgeons headed by Kai-Chah Tan . |
| 20 | Research for the book was carried out by a team from Oxford . |
| 21 | The First World War gave organized public relations in Britain an opportunity to be used on a national scale and official publicity was carried out by a number of organizations . |
| 22 | At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit . |
| 23 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 24 | When I er er were in the tool room at , Newark at the age of twenty one plus , you see , not twenty two er I was approached then by a shop steward who worked on the bench , was a fitter . |
| 25 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 27 | The Range Rover came into Belfast and was picked up by an army escort of two personnel-carriers on the outskirts . |
| 28 | The ebullience with which Nizan highlighted the disenchantment of Hitler 's own petty bourgeois supporters confronted by impending economic ruin , the logical outcome of a Nazi political dictatorship , was tempered only by an awareness that such economic ruin might ultimately only be avoided by a massive rearmament programme and a policy of fascist colonial expansion that would seriously undermine international security . |
| 29 | The laboratory where the scanning equipment was developed was visited today by a Government Minister , who said the pictures were better value for money than sending astronauts into space . |
| 30 | There were no startling innovations , as Scott found that his main task had to be the adaptation of the wartime organization of the Metropolitan Police to meet peacetime conditions , and he was hampered throughout by a manpower shortage for which it seemed that no solution could be found . |