Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The field-worker was a captive audience to whom members of the force could display their competence when riding around Easton in a police vehicle , and conversations were punctuated by policemen pointing out significant sites and personnel . |
| 2 | Kuhn argued that the comparatively long periods of normal science were punctuated by crises when the existing paradigms broke down and a new paradigm , and eventually orthodoxy , would become established ; the Copernican revolution was a prime example of this . |
| 3 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 4 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 5 | They were developed by Gerver ( personal communication ) and his tests were slightly adapted for our purposes , but consisted of a tape-recorded message which had errors inserted in the story ( error detection ) or had whole words omitted ( cloze ) . |
| 6 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 7 | Early macroeconomic models with quantity rationing were developed by Solow and Stiglitz ( 1968 ) , Barro and Grossman ( 1971 ) and Malinvaud ( 1977 ) . |
| 8 | The current protocols on access to and inter-lending of theses in Britain were developed by SCONUL , and they are printed in each issue of Aslib 's Index to Theses . |
| 9 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a sister product to the established First Word Plus should rate so highly , both were developed by GST , when you consider that word processing under a graphical environment such as GEM is almost the same as simple desktop publishing . |
| 10 | the industry standard control codes for dot matrix printers were developed by Epson and virtually all software packages and most dot matrix printers either follow or improve on these codes . |
| 11 | The consequences for behavioural psychology were developed by Berne ( 1964 ) . |
| 12 | Needless to say , none of these systems were developed by historians or with the historical user community particularly in view . |
| 13 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 14 | The revolutionary implications of utility were developed by radicals , and it is the interconnexion of governmental and radical reform that we must finally consider . |
| 15 | Many northern cities , including New Delhi , were paralysed by rioting students and in many instances curfews were imposed and the Army called in to restore order . |
| 16 | Neither of her parents was ever a professional performer , but both were fascinated by showbusiness . |
| 17 | Like most other people in Romania the Ceauşescus were fascinated by Radio Free Europe 's reporting on the country and were always anxious to hear its latest news . |
| 18 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 19 | Correlation coefficients were calculated by Pearson 's method . |
| 20 | The solid emptying half life and percentage retentions at 60 minutes were calculated by exponential interpolation with as many surrounding points as appropriate . |
| 21 | Correlation coefficients were calculated by Spearman rank correlation test and , in selected instances , the chi square test . |
| 22 | Relative retention times and response factors were calculated by comparison of authentic standards to coprostanol . |
| 23 | The CIs for the rate ratios were calculated by means of a formula for determining the confidence interval of the ratio of two normal means . |
| 24 | The difficulties involved in producing a logically satisfactory theory of time were emphasized by Parmenides ' follower Zeno of Elea in his subtle paradoxes concerning motion . |
| 25 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 26 | It was performed by the combined bands , drums and fifes , and some two hundred and fifty soldiers from thirty infantry regiments as well as a corps de ballet whose dances were arranged by Lucia Cormani . |
| 27 | The chairman and the director-general of Italy 's largest commercial bank ( 75 per cent owned by the Italian Treasury ) , the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) , resigned on Sept. 7 , 1989 , following a scandal involving the transfer to Iraq of $2,870 million of unauthorized loan commitments ; the loans , to United States and European companies exporting industrial and agricultural products to Iraq , were arranged by BNL 's Atlanta ( USA ) branch [ see also p. 37096 ] . |
| 28 | The training programmes that were available were arranged by government departments and took various forms : basic courses over nine or ten evenings ; one-day conferences on government information regarding grants , subsidies , etc. ; conferences on plant protection and disease control , field studies and some practical courses . |
| 29 | The visits were arranged by Peel Park Training Officer Alastair Marshall who is a member of the school board at Williamwood . |
| 30 | Some threatened evictions , it should be added , were arranged by collusion between farmers and workers in order to force the hand of local authorities who otherwise would not admit tied cottage tenants to their housing waiting lists . |