Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 2 | Some were dragged by a foot still caught in the stirrup , round in a circle in the turf . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 5 | A new one had been built in 1708 and this was replaced by a further wooden bridge in 1750 , which was , in turn , replaced in 1764 . |
| 6 | Parkes ' Chemical Catechism of 1806 had a frontispiece of apparatus , engraved on glass with fluoric acid ; in the fourth edition ( 1810 ) this was replaced by a plate of the laboratory of the Surrey Institution , a less-successful version of the Royal Institution ; in later editions Parkes substituted a laboratory which a gentleman might copy for himself . |
| 7 | This was replaced by a stone structure , only partly examined in the excavated area . |
| 8 | This was replaced by a second Romanesque cathedral in 1097 which , in turn , was largely demolished when the present Gothic cathedral took its place ( 558 ) . |
| 9 | Digiti lingua ( 1698 ) is the earliest published system which seems comparable to currently used fingerspelling in the UK , and this was written by a ‘ friend to the deaf ’ . |
| 10 | This was met by a diving A. Mayson who showed agility beyond his height-weight ratio to push the ball in for number two . |
| 11 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 12 | This was caused by a previous cancellation due to flooding . |
| 13 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
| 14 | This was precipitated by a House of Commons debate , marked by calculating and outrageous invective by Churchill , and by a less than usually effective speech from Baldwin . |
| 15 | This was tempered by a commitment to run banking policy , until the treaty was signed , through a Gosbank Council comprising Gosbank chair Viktor Gerashchenko and the heads of the state banks in the union republics . |
| 16 | This was followed by a wedding staged as if the Bride and Groom were being manipulated as puppets by a group of servants , a particular japanese theatrical tradition . |
| 17 | Later we returned to the RAFA Branch HQ , where ladies of the branch had been very busy preparing food for members , and this was followed by a Tea Dance . |
| 18 | This stage was followed by the introduction of individual ownership and this was followed by a few people gradually monopolizing the ownership of the means of production . |
| 19 | This was followed by a White Paper in 1965 which discontinued vouchers for unskilled black workers though unskilled white workers were still being admitted in large numbers . |
| 20 | This was followed by a step into a small enchanted forest when we visited a nearby butterfly farm . |
| 21 | This was followed by a lecture from Professor David Fenton ( Sheffield ) on the progress inorganic chemists have made in modelling biological transition metal sites with diverse roles , from the transport of oxygen in the blood ( iron in haemoglobin ) to the removal of blood alcohol in the liver ( zinc enzyme ) . |
| 22 | This was followed by a demonstration , to which the Governor of the state was invited , but he did not attend . |
| 23 | This was followed by a series of similar clicks from the back . |
| 24 | This was followed by a poster session . |
| 25 | This was followed by a trio of voices relating the history of 1OAB 's community service ‘ from birth to enforced closure ’ , after which we played the doleful song ‘ There 's a Gold Mine in the Sky ’ . |
| 26 | This was followed by a deep recession ( 1981–82 ) and energy conservation measures , with a consequential fall in world oil demand and prices . |
| 27 | This was followed by a heavy thump on the warped wooden frame and the window . |
| 28 | The technical director of Magnesium Elektron and chairman of the Manchester Section , Frank Farnworth , made the presentation on behalf of the Society and this was followed by a tour of the Zirconium Chemicals Plant and lunch . |
| 29 | The period 1860–90 was crucial for Germany : as the German state emerged and the German self-image was formed , Prussia-Germany went through a chaotic period of social and economic transformation : a boom in canal and railway building , in the steel industry , in banking , engineering , scientific research and in developing industrial techniques had been accompanied by a war with France ; this was followed by a slump , financial collapse and a steady move to the right in political thinking . |
| 30 | This was followed by a presentation by Mr Michael Foley on ‘ Celebrating Baptism as a Parish Community ’ . |