Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were followed by a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen . |
| 2 | Yanto 's honeyed words were accompanied by a silly grin . |
| 3 | The last words were accompanied by a baleful glare at Lucy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Input words were coded by a feature vector sequence . |
| 6 | My words were interrupted by a full measure of ‘ My dear young lady ’ . |
| 7 | His words were interrupted by a derisive snort . |
| 8 | Her words were interrupted by a triumphant shout of amusement from Geoffrey . |
| 9 | Thus after 1905 , as before , the landowning nobility of the central provinces were confronted by a homogeneous and cohesive peasant society . |
| 10 | Well-concealed redoubts were guarded by a triple barrier of barbed wire , fifty yards deep . |
| 11 | The majority of quarrels were started by a struggle for possessions . |
| 12 | Two Civil Guards were wounded by a remote-control bomb on Aug. 2 between Pamplona and San Sebastián . |
| 13 | Even lower percentages are estimated for Shorea ovalis ( Dipterocarpaceae ) in Malesia , where there was 83% abortion , possibly due to the failure of pollination , while 90% of the survivors were killed by a single insect predator species before being dropped . |
| 14 | Protein concentrations were determined by a modification of the method of Lowry using BSA as a standard . |
| 15 | Total vitamin C concentrations were determined by a modification of our original technique after reduction of dehydroascorbic acid to ascorbic acid at 45°C for 120 minutes in the presence of excess dithiothreitol . |
| 16 | Plasma glucose ( during clinical monitoring ) and blood glucose ( during the clamps ) concentrations were measured by a glucose oxidase method ( Yellow Springs glucose analyser , Yellow Springs Instrument , Ohio , United States ) . |
| 17 | Plasma Pp concentrations were measured by a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay as described previously . |
| 18 | IgA antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured by a method developed and validated in the department , the upper limit of normal being 90 arbitrary units/l . |
| 19 | Usually held in October , it lasted for eight days and met outside the North Gate near the sloe tree which gave it its name of Sloe Fair ; discipline and disputes were enforced by a ‘ pie-powder ’ ( dusty feet ) court which sorted out the inevitable problems . |
| 20 | In Japan , the industrial policy of the ruling Liberal Democratic party worked through industry-wide business associations , and disputes were arbitrated by a strong , meritocratic central bureaucracy . |
| 21 | Some pictures were taken by a nameless photographer . |
| 22 | These pictures were filmed by a man called Herbert Ponting . |
| 23 | Discrepant entries were defined by a discrepancy between the written and electronic records of peak expiratory flow ( table I ) . |
| 24 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 25 | Any whether worries were eased by a gradual lifting of the gloom as England went in again . |
| 26 | The crash , involving twelve vehicles , happened after drivers were blinded by a mixture of fog and thick black smoke from a burning lorry . |
| 27 | Subjects were screened by a fully qualified medical practitioner . |
| 28 | CHARGES brought against a man after four people died in a crash in the Borders were dismissed by a sheriff yesterday , writes William Chisholm . |
| 29 | Wearily he said : ‘ Miss Washbrooke , you have taken the responsibility of deciding that those knives were sent by a hoaxer and not a murderer . |
| 30 | Ratings were made by a team of researchers with no knowledge of whether or not the woman was a case , or what she had said about her response to the event . |