Example sentences of "was [vb pp] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 2 | The Constitution of Polynesia was amended by the French Parliament with effect from July 1990 to increase the powers of the President of the territorial government and those of the Territorial Assembly , and to establish five consultative local councils composed of elected territorial and municipal representatives . |
| 3 | The feudal institutions of the ancien régime began to be dismantled under the bureaucratic reforms of the eighteenth century Carlist monarchy , and the process was hastened by the Napoleonic invasion , rather than by the pressure of new economic interests and the emergence of commercial agriculture . |
| 4 | Soviet specialists believed that the shift towards non-alignment in Latin America was hastened by the political situation in the region after the Falklands War which resulted in ‘ an open crisis of the inter-American system , including its military-political mechanism ’ . |
| 5 | Farrell pushed the agent inside and was joined by the other intruder . |
| 6 | Suddenly their random bleating was joined by the rhythmic thud of drumming hooves . |
| 7 | Fame was joined by the big Mac who , fag in hand , warbled his way through ‘ Candleland ’ and , for the climax , Collins returned for a sensitive run through the Velvet 's ‘ Pale Blue Eyes ’ . |
| 8 | Fame was joined by the big Mac who , fag in hand , warbled his way through ‘ Candleland ’ and , for the climax , Collins returned for a sensitive run through the Velvet 's ‘ Pale Blue Eyes ’ . |
| 9 | The stripping traffic warden was joined by the stripping nun in the Kissogram adverts . |
| 10 | The Brioni agreement was ratified by the Croatian parliament on July 9 , and by the Slovenian parliament on July 10 . |
| 11 | Franco was irritated by the Tripartite Note but , ultimately , it reassured him . |
| 12 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 13 | The BH 2 AUC was calculated by the trapezoid rule . |
| 14 | Specific lysis was calculated by the standard formula and values in the absence of peptide subtracted to yield the values shown . |
| 15 | This was calculated by the local authority in accordance with the revenue it needed to raise to pay for local services . |
| 16 | The Allies saved the situation in the " Battle of the Bulge " ; in particular , the rapid advance of the Germans to the Meuse was halted by the heroic resistance of the American 8th Army Corps at Bastogne , reinforced after a 160-kilometre dash by the 101st Airborne Division . |
| 17 | InterCity , which is responsible for the Norwich to London 125 service , was halted by the one-day strike , as were trains run by Network Southeast and Regional Railways . |
| 18 | This destruction was halted by the new Manager , Joe Franklin , and the remaining Standards gained a temporary reprieve , proving useful as Promenade extras and for Illumination Tours . |
| 19 | The tendency to royal absolutism was halted by the English revolution of the seventeenth century which reflected the dynamism of civil society and firmly established its pre-eminence . |
| 20 | He appealed , and was reinstated by the privy Council , but was unable to continue his employment for long . |
| 21 | It lay within the rich agricultural lowlands of the Welsh kingdom of Morgannwg which , towards the end of the 11th century A.D. , was conquered by the Norman lord , Robert Fitzhammon and was established as the lordship of Glamorgan . |
| 22 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 23 | The Callaveros County frog jumping contest was immortalised by the American novelist , Mark Twain . |
| 24 | The Mountain Leadership Training Board was formed by the Central Council for Physical Recreation because the BMC had no interest in such a training scheme . |
| 25 | Athelstan was dumbfounded by the magnificent spectacle awaiting them : the hall was long , the hammer-beam roof high , whilst every piece of woodwork and stone was covered in the most luxurious velvet and samite hangings , gorgeous banners and hangings of every hue . |
| 26 | From 1903 , in another effort to break the CPR 's monopoly , the Grand Trunk Pacific was chartered by the Canadian government to build another coast-to-coast line . |
| 27 | Suddenly , the stillness was punctured by the characteristic bark of a Stanier 8F working hard against a severe gradient . |
| 28 | This final stay was overturned by the Supreme Court by seven votes to two , and , in an unprecedented move , the Court prohibited any further intervention in the case by lower courts . |
| 29 | He was dismissed by the colonial secretary , Lord Stanley ( later fourteenth Earl of Derby , q.v. ) , despite acknowledgement that ‘ his efforts appear to be rewarded by the decline of crimes of violence and outrage and by the growth of humane and kindly feeling in the minds of persons under his care . ’ |
| 30 | The charge against her of having assisted in conducting a betting business at her house was dismissed by the Stipendiary Magistrate on 20th August . |