Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] by the " 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 | Other women who had been the subject of The Fox 's violence were described by the press . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand , and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Height and weight were measured by the same observer ( AT ) in all patients at the time of study . |
| 12 | Before this , all the shares in Hall Automation were owned by the Hall family . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Murderer Steven Mynott , 29 , and Phillip Ayres , 25 , fled the day after improvements to a 17ft security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 18 | The escape comes the day after improvements to the 17ft high security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | The claims by the Stuart kings to rule by prerogative were resolved by the Bill of Rights 1689 . |
| 22 | On the demand side , the effects of the rapidity of the synchronized upswing were reinforced by the materials processing sector responding less rapidly than others . |
| 23 | But for families standards of living were reduced by the fact that women 's earnings had been falling from 1760 . |
| 24 | In January last year details of the workload and the resources available to meet that workload were collected by the British Orthopaedic Association directly from consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeons working in the 19 general hospitals in the 12 health districts in inner London . |
| 25 | The nominations of Spiess and Babuic were endorsed by the Senate on Oct. 17 , having previously been refused . |
| 26 | ‘ The barracks at Deal were bombed by the IRA , ’ she says . |
| 27 | Between June and September 18,000 bargains of this kind in Samara guberniia were annulled by the government , which declared them to be invalid , but thousands more went undiscovered . |
| 28 | The report of the Third Committee that dealt with the topic , Population and the Family , for instance , while noting that " high infant mortality was especially recognized as a deterrent to fertility decline " and , consequently , two recommendations to this effect were adopted by the World Population Plan of Action , also mentioned that " It was widely acknowledged that the ability to determine the number and spacing of children influences family well-being , partly because of the effect upon the health of both mothers and children . " |
| 29 | The aims of the per cent club were described by the Archbishop of Canterbury , at the clubs , at the clubs annual general meeting last week , as clear and refreshing . |
| 30 | Cruz 's house arrest and dismissal were overturned by the Supreme Court on Dec. 29 , but he remained suspended from office . |