Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London . |
| 4 | Ramsey 's father and mother were nauseated by the jingoism . |
| 5 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 6 | Fortunately for Hippisley , the body was never found , although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk . |
| 7 | Some 46 years after its fiery end , the remains of Spitfire R6644 were excavated by the Malvern Spitfire Team , the parts restored and a memorial to the pilot erected . |
| 8 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 9 | Training materials were developed by the Scottish Office in collaboration with colleges of education . |
| 10 | These were erected by the Company and run under the same conditions as Wolverton School . |
| 11 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 12 | Giant posters measuring 16ft by 8ft were erected by the army at the entrance to Ormeau Park in another desperate attempt to jog someone 's memory . |
| 13 | As population grew and harvests failed more often , attitudes towards the rate-receiving poor hardened , especially after the food crisis of 1795 – 6 when even firmly rising rents were outpaced by the soaring poor rate . |
| 14 | It will be apparent that we were fascinated by the phenomenon of crofting , as we presume most other newcomers to it must be . |
| 15 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 16 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 17 | It was once won by an archer who had a large family of young children who were fascinated by the spoon , which has a silver chain with a hook at the end in the form of a swan 's head and neck . |
| 18 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 19 | The story of foreign geniuses at work in California was a strange and sad one ; great men were fascinated by the excitement and power of a city devoted to movies , whilst the studios were attracted by the notion of using these aliens to make profitable and prestigious films . |
| 20 | At that time , European scholars were fascinated by the technological and , as they saw them , moral triumphs of their age , and obsessed with the necessity for progress in all fields of human endeavour ; they felt a positive obligation to contemplate continually the long , hard road along which man had struggled in his search for perfection . |
| 21 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 22 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |
| 23 | Last , while not wishing to prescribe a particular pattern of operation , we were fascinated by the whole business of the micro-politics of change within project schools , In particular , the management of innovation through the institution of committees , the control of agendas , the persuasion of individuals and ( putting it bluntly ) the Machiavellian manipulation of situations were features of the project in action . |
| 24 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 25 | Reporters were fascinated by the methods ICI uses to monitor the effects of chemicals in the air , on the ground and in rivers , lakes and seas . |
| 26 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 27 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 28 | Gall bladder volumes , measured by real time ultrasonography ( Technicare , 3.5 MHz transducer ) , were calculated by the sum of cylinders method with a computerised system . |
| 29 | Confidence intervals were calculated by the exact method . |
| 30 | Over a hundred offenders , including Northern magnates like Sir John Fauconberg and Sir Robert Capon , were indicted by the sworn evidence of the Forest officers and other jurors . |