Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The purpose of this provision would be to ensure that where threats other than of immediate violence were employed by a defendant , the woman would be regarded as consenting . |
| 5 | Other women who had been the subject of The Fox 's violence were described by the press . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Questions about the band 's future were fuelled by a Derry Brownson quote featured in the Daily Mirror which originated in a European magazine : ‘ We may not be around much longer . |
| 8 | Thus within the new boundaries old hostilities between anglican and nonconformist , publican and temperance reformer , and even manufacturer and sections of skilled labour were buried by an overriding concern to forge unity against the municipal politics of the labour group . |
| 9 | The seeds of further sexual confusion were sown by the custom , in the cinemas of Wellington , Shropshire , where I lived , of spraying the audience with perfumed deodorant during the intervals . |
| 10 | Claims that the IAEA inspection team had found conclusive proof of a nuclear weapons programme were denied by the government , which accused the IAEA team of exceeding its authority and engaging in espionage . |
| 11 | Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand , and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire . |
| 12 | The climate which developed in this period in Britain was one in which the prejudices of the judiciary were reinforced by a media campaign supportive of the Tory Party 's ideas on moral decay and over-dependence upon the state . |
| 13 | These efforts of the judiciary were supported by a number of academics , such as C. K. Allen and Sir John Marriott . |
| 14 | The differences in disease severity during the study were paralleled by a higher mean stool frequency for the placebo group as compared with the cyclosporin group , 2.7 v 1.6 stools/day ( Table II ) . |
| 15 | MORE than 40 sweeping law changes aimed at banishing the penalty-ridden , slow-coach version of rugby football were adopted by the International Rugby Board yesterday . |
| 16 | Following the explosion at Vic two key ETA members of its Barcelona cell were killed by the civil guard in a raid on a house at Llica de Munt , 30 km from Barcelona , on May 30 . |
| 17 | Height and weight were measured by the same observer ( AT ) in all patients at the time of study . |
| 18 | Before this , all the shares in Hall Automation were owned by the Hall family . |
| 19 | Six subjects were examined on two separate occasions and mean basal oesophageal bicarbonate outputs , and salivary , and gastric bicarbonate contamination of the oesophagus were quantified by the pH/pCO 2 method ( Table III ) . |
| 20 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 21 | His words to the Commando Officer in the jeep were drowned by the crack of the 15 pounders as a few of them opened fire , the guns lurching forward as the shells sped off towards their target . |
| 22 | He went to exceedingly great lengths to keep his name out of the public eye , but , as with Lawrence , an extreme desire for secrecy and public contempt for ambition were accompanied by a morbid fascination with the power of the will . |
| 23 | Moves to establish a UN police force in the north to reduce the chances of confrontation were rejected by the Iraqi government on May 9 . |
| 24 | Murderer Steven Mynott , 29 , and Phillip Ayres , 25 , fled the day after improvements to a 17ft security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 25 | The escape comes the day after improvements to the 17ft high security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 26 | Using these specimens , chemical types of amyloid protein were identified by the avidin-biotin complex ( ABC ) method using anti-AA and anti-Β 2 -microglobulin ( 1:500 , Dako ) , and anti-prealbumin ( 1:500 , Dako ) antibodies . |
| 27 | Opposition criticisms that the DLP was moving with insufficient speed to eradicate the legacy of South Korea 's recent history of military rule were highlighted by a scandal in October which revealed that the Defence Security Command ( DSC ) , the counter-intelligence unit of the armed forces , was continuing to conduct surveillance operations against a broad range of civilian figures including Kim Dae Jung . |
| 28 | It seems that the use of such powers to obtain compulsory response to interrogation gradually faded away , and in practice were replaced by a caution , well before the caution became mandatory in 1848 . |
| 29 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 30 | The claims by the Stuart kings to rule by prerogative were resolved by the Bill of Rights 1689 . |