Example sentences of "[coord] were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 2 | Somewhere not far away , surrounded by jungle , Chloe and the sepoy lay side by side and rotted , or were eaten by the specialist animals of the night . |
| 3 | They submitted ‘ even when they had no desire for sex or were repulsed by the idea . ’ |
| 4 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 5 | Yet the skinheads neither created nor were created by the ‘ end ’ . |
| 6 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 7 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 8 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 9 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 10 | Since the new recruits in the hive had not been tampered with and were stimulated by the light , they misinterpreted the dance of the returning foragers . |
| 11 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 12 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 13 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 14 | Leadership calls for party unity in difficult political circumstances prevailed , however , and were reinforced by a common underlying belief in the congress that the Sandinistas continued to exercise political influence in a tacit pact with the government . |
| 15 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 16 | Vassals owed loyalty to their lords and were bound by an oath of allegiance which encouraged the acceptance of their status . |
| 17 | In the Bekaa , he records , ‘ birds sang among the reeds and were echoed by a distant chorus from farm workers marching out to potato fields with long hoes over their shoulders . |
| 18 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 19 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 20 | All these records are twelve inches in diameter and were made by the Gramophone Company of Great Britain between 1920 and 1925 . |
| 21 | The longest pre-recorded cylinders regularly marketed bore the legend ‘ Smethurst 's System ’ , and were made by the Sterling company in London . |
| 22 | The monkeys themselves turned out to be a highly evolved and accomplished band of thieves , and were treated by the Biranese as a neighbouring tribe . |
| 23 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 24 | It was not Sussex backwardness alone that brought trouble but the collapse of the artificial prosperity across England when the wars ended in 1815 and were followed by a series of disastrous harvests . |
| 25 | People became mannequins and were consumed by the chaos . |
| 26 | We shook hands and were joined by a sparkling red-head : ‘ Dr Sherry Brown , hello . |
| 27 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 28 | Similarly , in the second case the defendant company in the national litigation had transferred its cargo loading and unloading business to another company , but the plaintiff employees refused to transfer to the new employers and were dismissed by the transferor . |
| 29 | With Milton and Marvell , both of whom supported Parliament and were employed by the state during the Commonwealth and Protectorate , we have instances of writers with direct political involvement in their times . |
| 30 | Local elections were held on Dec. 8 — the first elections since the military coup of 1983 — and were contested by the two government-sanctioned parties . |