Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death and destruction were meted out by both sides , but there can be little doubt that the rebels carried a greater burden of responsibility than the Republicans , for their repressive actions took a higher human toll and they , not the Republicans , had acted against legality . |
| 2 | Sometimes traditional economies were broken up by European competition : the cultivation of indigo , for example , collapsed with the discovery of synthetic dyestuffs . |
| 3 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 4 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 5 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 6 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 7 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 8 | In the case of Olugboja ( 1981 ) two girls were picked up by two men and taken to a remote house . |
| 9 | Later that Saturday afternoon , about 1400 hours , three of them , including Micky Wynn , were picked up by German patrol boats ; a fourth man , Able Seaman Len Denison , swam to a concrete pile in the river . |
| 10 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 11 | By chance , they were carried out by two of the VGA 's female managers , chief executive Siobhan Hamilton-Phillips and executive director Susan Bloch . |
| 12 | As all these procedures were carried out by two endoscopists ( IRS and SGB ) we do not consider that this led to significant bias . |
| 13 | And in 1942 the first major bombings of German cities were carried out by allied air flotillas , and as the Luftwaffe lost control of the skies many Germans began to experience with dread the sort of terror-bombing which their own airforce had inflicted on numerous European cities since 1939 and which the allies were now returning with immeasurably greater force and concentration . |
| 14 | All the changes of typeface and style were carried out by complex codes — each unique to the typesetter 's manufacturer — and these took months to learn . |
| 15 | Inspections were carried out by outside groups for the first time , and changes , such as putting windows into dark cells , took place . |
| 16 | His voyage is based on similar ones which , he believes , were carried out by Chinese in the third century BC , and which made possible the great civilisations of Central and South America . |
| 17 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 18 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 19 | But each time they were pegged back by United substitute Ward , who had not scored in 21 previous outings this season . |
| 20 | English observers felt England had improved and that they dominated periods of the game but were let down by defensive errors . |
| 21 | Crusaders , who hammered Wakefield 30-0 in the first round , were never in front and were let down by bad handling in atrocious conditions . |
| 22 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 23 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |
| 24 | They allowed the blue entrails to fall on huge platters which were scooped up by young , ragged-arsed apprentices to be cleansed in vats of scalding water . |
| 25 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 26 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 27 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 28 | Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities . |
| 29 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 30 | They were bought out by two businessmen , John Allen and Lee Higdon , who formed Alon Inc and continued production at Carlsbad before moving to McPherson , Kansas , where in 1965 86 of the A–2 Aircoupes were manufactured . |