Example sentences of "[det] were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 2 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 3 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 4 | Some were dragged by a foot still caught in the stirrup , round in a circle in the turf . |
| 5 | Q Our Piranhas have recently bred and we have a few fry left ( some were eaten by a Plec , which was in turn eaten by the Piranhas ) . |
| 6 | Although the banking sector continued to be the largest purchaser of these Treasury bills , some were purchased by the M4 private sector ( i.e. the UK private sector excluding banks and building societies ) ( see Table 6.4 ) . |
| 7 | These were supported by a ‘ levy ’ of foot soldiers ; repeatedly in the fourteenth century , Sussex was faced with royal demands for five hundred or a thousand troops . |
| 8 | These were built by the United Electric Car Company of Preston , and were luxurious in comparison with the rest of the fleet , with their basket seats . |
| 9 | The members of the Legislative Commission of 1767 received from the areas which elected them both instructions and statements of grievances : digests of these were studied by the empress and had considerable influence on her later activities , notably on the reform of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 10 | This was due largely to rationalization programmes which attempted to dispose of the smaller and unprofitable public houses , though these were offset by a continuing commitment to improving the appearance and amenities of the larger remaining houses . |
| 11 | These were enumerated by the European Court in its judgment in the CILFIT case in the following terms : |
| 12 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
| 13 | These were accepted by the judges as signs of his madness , and in the end Boldwood was sent to prison for life . |
| 14 | In addition to the subject working groups , the Secretary of State set up a Task Group on Testing and Assessment ( TGAT ) , which reported in early 1988 with recommendations for assessment arrangements for the national curriculum ; by and large , these were accepted by the Secretary of State . |
| 15 | These were met by the disciplined , well-trained armies of the Phoenix King , many of whom were veterans of the wars with the Dwarfs . |
| 16 | Penning-Rowsell has also concluded that these were inspired by a growing awareness of landscape deterioration , through either urban expansion or inadequate management , and a perceived need for increased protection of those areas of greatest landscape quality . |
| 17 | These were fringed by a hedge of varying shrubs and small trees — white-thorn , privet , sweetbriar and the occasional rose — all entwined together . |
| 18 | Some say these were sent by the Witch King to plague him . |
| 19 | Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward . |
| 20 | He was able to calculate that these were made by a man in his twenties , approximately six feet tall , weighing a little over eleven stone . |
| 21 | The majority of these were made by the London firm which , after various legal problems and takeovers , became Edison-Bell . |
| 22 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 23 | These were played by a beam of laser light rather than a stylus , and Philips saw that combining digital audio with laser disc technology would be a great improvement upon the Dolby Cassette and the LP . |
| 24 | This resulted in the construction of churches that could not possibly have been supported by such a small population — there were fifteen in the town centre alone — and these were maintained by the bull priests for secret ritual and ceremonial services on 13 November , the ‘ festal day ’ . |
| 25 | These were characterized by a much shallower decline in the demand for HE into the 1990s than previously . |
| 26 | The changes in the warmth and dampness of the soil , the falling of the sunlight patches , the altering movement of the beans in the light wind , the direction and strength of the air currents along the ground all these were perceived by the rabbit awake . |
| 27 | These were erected by the Company and run under the same conditions as Wolverton School . |
| 28 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 29 | These were distinguished by the sophistication of their planning , in which a balance was struck between the grand , public and convenient , private rooms . |
| 30 | Fairs were held there four times a year ; supposedly , these were governed by a body known as the ‘ court of piepowder ’ [ Clarke ] . |