Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | These statements-were then considered by ministers and senior civil servants who then made decisions which were implemented . |
| 2 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 3 | As the pitch patterns were presumably dictated by Elgar 's ‘ secret ’ melody , we can safely assume that his invention , and indeed the beauty of his creation , lay almost entirely in his construction . |
| 4 | Both men were presumably accompanied by their brothers , since Robert Harrington and John Parr were later knighted by Edward at Tewkesbury , and Thomas Parr died at Barnet . |
| 5 | Both men were presumably accompanied by their brothers , since Robert Harrington and John Parr were later knighted by Edward at Tewkesbury , and Thomas Parr died at Barnet . |
| 6 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 7 | Prices of staple goods and fuel were duly increased by an average 19.5 per cent . |
| 8 | This list was open to objections , and these were duly raised by Mr. Charles Baker , J.P. , one of the Grammar School Visitors in the 1850s . |
| 9 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 10 | They operated mainly as market centres for local areas and , as such , they were overwhelmingly dominated by the countryside , where wealth and power were concentrated . |
| 11 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 12 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 13 | All remaining seven patients with leakage or strictures , or both were successfully treated by endoscopic sphincterotomy only ( n=1 ) or sphincterotomy and subsequent stent placement ( n=6 ) . |
| 14 | Gould , in marked contrast , had managed to enlist 298 subscribers for his Himalayan Birds , all of whom were successfully pursued by the efficient and persistent Mr Prince . |
| 15 | But they were successfully resisted by a rejectionist front which encompassed a variety of social interests and philosophies , ranging from rural Tory gentry to urban working-class radicals . |
| 16 | In 106 of these patients ( 72.6% ) the stones were successfully retrieved by the standard technique of sphincterotomy and basket or balloon extraction . |
| 17 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |
| 18 | In that debate they were powerfully assisted by the shock effects of the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and by the Soviet blockade of the Western zones in Berlin from the summer of 1948 . |
| 19 | In the half-century between 1787 and 1838 the overall organisational and institutional forms of antislavery were powerfully shaped by the need for meeting the propaganda and political challenge of the West India interest . |
| 20 | David Fairhall adds : The regular Panamanian forces , not all of whom opposed the American intervention according to the Pentagon , were vastly outnumbered by US troops . |
| 21 | Those children leaving the camp to go to foster parents ( about one hundred in December ) were vastly outnumbered by new arrivals . |
| 22 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 23 | The Sultan 's writ was re-established throughout the Oman , except in the mountain fastnesses of the Djebel Akhdar , which were eventually cleared by the SAS in 1959 , while on their way back from Malaya for probable disbandment under the Sandys cuts ! |
| 24 | With the prematurely balding Perthshire giant Alan Gilzean up-front and the craggy centre-half Ian Ure cementing their defence , Dundee annihilated the European Cup favourites , FC Cologne by 8–1 at home , then advanced to the semi-finals where they were eventually beaten by AC Milan . |
| 25 | The USAF 's speed and altitude requirements were eventually met by the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation ( NAA ) — but not without first overcoming tremendous technical , design and manufacturing problems . |
| 26 | They were an organisation of " warrior monks " who became so powerful that they were eventually disbanded by the Crown . |
| 27 | Scholars assume that modern Basque derives from the original tongue of the Celtiberians , the ancient people of Spain who were eventually overcome by the Romans . |
| 28 | The role of clay and other mineral crystals in the theory is to act as the original ‘ low-tech ’ replicators , the ones that were eventually replaced by high-tech DNA . |
| 29 | Its original turf and timber buildings were eventually replaced by stone ones . |
| 30 | Chips were eventually replaced by a cash allowance in 1805 . |