Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that the ‘ eyes ’ or ‘ spectacles ’ on the rear of the Cobra 's hood were given to it by Guatama the Buddha as protection against the attacks of Garuda the Eagle , arch enemy of the Cobras . |
| 2 | The Law Reform Committee , a standing body with a Secretary provided by the Lord Chancellor 's Office , functioned on a part-time basis producing reports on those aspects of the civil law as were referred to it by Ministers . |
| 3 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 4 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 5 | Some relatively soft Egyptian alabaster was imported and at least forty vases were made from it by Minoan craftsmen . |
| 6 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 7 | On the one hand , while two-thirds of the females were introduced to heroin by their male partner , that is , husband or boyfriend , none of the males were introduced to it by their female partner . |
| 8 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 9 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 10 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 11 | The younger James Stephen in essays in the Edinburgh Review in 1838 and 1843 , later republished and expanded in Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography ( 1849 ) , took up the tradition of abolitionist historical writing on antislavery and was joined in it by his younger brother , Sir George Stephen , with Anti-Slavery Recollections ( 1854 ) . |
| 12 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 13 | I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he |
| 14 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 15 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 16 | But I was talked into it by my boyfriend . |
| 17 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 18 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 19 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |
| 20 | It was a considerable tribute to his growing reputation in high official circles , and the fact that he was proposed for it by Sir John Anderson ( later Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , then permanent under-secretary at the Home Office , indicates that he already enjoyed the trust of the home departments he would henceforth be serving . |
| 21 | He was dipped in it by me . |
| 22 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 23 | I just drifted into it 'cos I was forced into it by me family . |
| 24 | For they would enable the cat to switch more easily to whatever new food regimen was forced upon it by altered circumstances . |
| 25 | Its next major measure was forced upon it by Labour backbenchers . |
| 26 | She was pitchforked into it by the early death of her husband James V. But this woman from France made sure that she learned about the country she would control . |
| 27 | and I I was taken to it by friends . |
| 28 | The decision in Lawrence was a clear decision of this House upon the construction of the word ‘ appropriate ’ in section 1(1) of the Act , which had stood for 12 years when doubt was thrown upon it by obiter dicta in Morris . |
| 29 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 30 | However , the Supreme Court in Aérospatiale , like the Court of Appeals in Re Anschuetz , saw a place for comity analysis , as was urged upon it by several of the briefs including that of the United Kingdom Government . |