Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were written by the tubercular vicar of All Saints , Lower Brixham , the Rev H F Lyte ( 1793–1847 ) , during his last months of illness . |
| 2 | His words were followed by a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen . |
| 3 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 4 | In dealing with the allegation of infringement of a trade mark , Lord Justice Dillon said that there could only be such an infringement if the words were used by an offender in the trade mark sense . |
| 5 | Yanto 's honeyed words were accompanied by a silly grin . |
| 6 | The last words were accompanied by a baleful glare at Lucy . |
| 7 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 8 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 9 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 10 | Input words were coded by a feature vector sequence . |
| 11 | My words were interrupted by a full measure of ‘ My dear young lady ’ . |
| 12 | His words were interrupted by a derisive snort . |
| 13 | Her words were interrupted by a triumphant shout of amusement from Geoffrey . |
| 14 | It was about the debate , about health care in America and the words were provided by an American reporter . |
| 15 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 16 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 17 | Guidelines were introduced by the then Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , with effect from June 1 , 1990 , under which Cabinet ministers , ministers outside the Cabinet and parliamentary under-secretaries were required to disclose their financial interests within four weeks of taking office and annually thereafter . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the mutated oligonucleotides were unable to compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences , even when a 500 molar excess of competitor was used ( data not shown ) , reinforcing the conclusion that the protein-DNA complexes were mediated by the mutated guanine residues . |
| 19 | One moment the Sergeant was screaming at his men to charge hard home , and the next he and his horse were hit by the metal gale of an exploding canister . |
| 20 | Only 84 assemblymen were chosen by the people of Taiwan ; the rest last faced the voters in China itself , before they had to flee the mainland 's victorious communists in 1949 . |
| 21 | Vesicles were prepared by the method of Chobanian . |
| 22 | The leg irons used on Orton Chirwa were made by the Birmingham company , Hiatts ( see p4 ) . |
| 23 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 24 | In the midst of summer when you came out , your eyes burned with sunlight and your small meaty smooth arms and legs were stung by the pavement 's heat . |
| 25 | I once taught a student who claimed to believe in Satan but thought that demons were used by the biblical writers as a means of explaining the sources of diseases and mental illnesses that were not understood in modern medical terms . |
| 26 | Thus after 1905 , as before , the landowning nobility of the central provinces were confronted by a homogeneous and cohesive peasant society . |
| 27 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 28 | Though the North Koreans were equipped by the Russians , the reasons for their invasion of the South remain mysterious . |
| 29 | However , such considerations were overshadowed by an incident five months later . |
| 30 | Both styles were created by the La Moda Styling team . |