Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reached Blackheath , Kent , when they were fallen upon by the army of ten thousand prepared for the Scottish wars . |
| 2 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 3 | The minute differences of circumstances between this , the " Hamarat case " , and the " O'Kelly case " were commented upon by the court . |
| 4 | All the authorities subsequent to Cumber v. Wane ( 1721 ) 1 Stra. 426 which were relied upon by the appellant at your Lordships ' Bar ( such as Sibree v. Tripp ( 1846 ) 15 M. & W. 23 ; Curlewis v. Clark ( 1849 ) 3 Exch. 375 and Goddard v. O'Brien ( 1882 ) 9 Q.B.D. 37 ) have proceeded upon the distinction that , by giving negotiable paper or otherwise , there has been some new consideration for a new agreement , distinct from mere money payments in or towards discharge of the original liability . |
| 5 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 6 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 7 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 8 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 9 | In 1986 Abdullah had vigorously suppressed unrest among black Mauritanians who claimed they were discriminated against by the Arab population [ see p. 35234 ] . |
| 10 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 11 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 12 | We have discussed this in more detail in Chapter Three where we saw how the parameters of this debate as set out in these campaigns were seized upon by the Tory Party with little or no response from the Labour Party who seemed unable to cope with the authoritarian drift . |
| 13 | He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms : |
| 14 | ‘ They were the same , but all the other cells were presided over by the man who founded the order at a place in England called Medmenham Abbey . |
| 15 | The talks were presided over by the president of the National Reconciliation Commission , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño . |
| 16 | He implied that Chinese students did form relationships , but these were frowned upon by the college authorities . |
| 17 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 18 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 19 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 20 | Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome . |
| 21 | 13 other travellers were dealt with by the court for a variety of motoring offences arising out of the Castlemorton event . |
| 22 | Although we were sneered at by the arts and humanities students , those of us who were doing business studies felt , quite reasonably , that we were closer to the spirit of the age than the old hippies of the faculty . |
| 23 | It is natural to consider the dynastic marriage policies of this period in the same context as warfare , since both were engaged in by the kings and great nobles for very much the same reasons ( see pp. 456–7 ) . |
| 24 | These , and the many other fine Victorian buildings in the city , were paid for by the fortunes made in the 19th century in the wool manufacturing and tailoring trades . |
| 25 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 26 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 27 | of the capital costs of the CTC programme , including those of the Telford college in my constituency , were paid for by the taxpayer ? |
| 28 | Those shows of identity were paid for by the pennies of miners and the barrier was imposed by the philistine , alien Government who do not know the difference between a work of art and a tin of baked beans . |
| 29 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 30 | Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) . |