Example sentences of "because they [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
| 2 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 3 | The apparent willingness of such men to support Gloucester casts doubt on Mancini 's claim that the fleet only deserted Woodville because they were tricked by the Genoese crews of the commandeered vessels . |
| 4 | The apparent willingness of such men to support Gloucester casts doubt on Mancini 's claim that the fleet only deserted Woodville because they were tricked by the Genoese crews of the commandeered vessels . |
| 5 | To express the awkwardness of the Spartan position Thucydides uses awkward language ( i.88 ) : the Spartans voted , he says , that the ‘ libations ’ had been broken and took a decision for war not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of their allies as because they were afraid of the growth of Athenian power . |
| 6 | The second would be to hold by-elections in areas that were excluded from this week 's election because they were controlled by the Khmers Rouges . |