Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Vesicles were prepared by the method of Chobanian . |
| 11 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Though the North Koreans were equipped by the Russians , the reasons for their invasion of the South remain mysterious . |
| 15 | Both styles were created by the La Moda Styling team . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All the schools were visited by the authors , Phillip Lane Clark and Eileen Round , and their team of field officers . |
| 18 | TOUGH new measures to stop sex pests teaching in Britain 's private schools were ordered by the Government yesterday . |
| 19 | Contradictory signals were given by the military in the aftermath of the demonstrations . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | Both the visual-judgement and category-judgement tasks could be performed quite easily when the readers were distracted by the shadowing task . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The nearby offices were saved by the Fire Service . |
| 24 | Dubbed by some as ‘ the imperial palace ’ , Standard 's Bishopsgate offices were opened by the Queen and it is understood there was no shortage of potential bidders . |
| 25 | The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments . |
| 26 | And if all that was n't reason enough to stay in bed in the morning , it proceeded to snow on our parade : Esquire 's opening festivities were blanketed by the worst storm to hit London since 1963 . |
| 27 | In 1984 , the first of eight massive plumes were detected by the NOAA over Novaya Zemlya , the Arctic island long used by the Russians for nuclear weapons tests . |
| 28 | There was some speculation that the plumes were caused by the release of methane , but this was unlikely , as the rock formations of the area were pre-Cambrian , and thus too old still to hold methane . |
| 29 | During the initial assessment interview clients were rated by the interviewer on a number of four-point scales . |
| 30 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |