Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] by the " 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 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Vesicles were prepared by the method of Chobanian . |
| 12 | The leg irons used on Orton Chirwa were made by the Birmingham company , Hiatts ( see p4 ) . |
| 13 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 17 | Though the North Koreans were equipped by the Russians , the reasons for their invasion of the South remain mysterious . |
| 18 | Both styles were created by the La Moda Styling team . |
| 19 | Behavioural item check lists were completed by the mothers and teachers which provided assessments of several different behavioural dimensions and behavioural changes over a 5 year period will be analysed with respect to specific life events , life circumstances and primary school experience . |
| 20 | All the schools were visited by the authors , Phillip Lane Clark and Eileen Round , and their team of field officers . |
| 21 | TOUGH new measures to stop sex pests teaching in Britain 's private schools were ordered by the Government yesterday . |
| 22 | Contradictory signals were given by the military in the aftermath of the demonstrations . |
| 23 | These steps were agreed by the government , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and 17 other political groups at the first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) in December [ see pp. 38662-63 ] . |
| 24 | On 6 January 1992 the Standards of Work Based Competence for the hospitality and catering industry were agreed by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 25 | Ultimately , the British could not win the battle for civil aviation after 1945 because their economic performance and uncompetitive aircraft industry were outclassed by the size and strength of the American competition . |
| 26 | Both the visual-judgement and category-judgement tasks could be performed quite easily when the readers were distracted by the shadowing task . |
| 27 | Other women who had been the subject of The Fox 's violence were described by the press . |
| 28 | Trees twenty-four kilometres from the volcano were felled by the blast , and sandy ash carried by the nuees formed deposits over thirty centimetres thick even nine kilometres away . |
| 29 | The military used the event as an excuse to take action against the PKI , and as many as 500,000 people named as communists and left-wing sympathizers were killed by the end of 1965 . |
| 30 | The nearby offices were saved by the Fire Service . |