Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for Hippisley , the body was never found , although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk . |
| 2 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 3 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 4 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 5 | Reporters were fascinated by the methods ICI uses to monitor the effects of chemicals in the air , on the ground and in rivers , lakes and seas . |
| 6 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 7 | Both the Dark Age Benedictine monastery and the church were sacked by the Saracens on 10 October 881 AD , as recorded in the twelfth-century Chronicon Vulturnense . |
| 8 | Behavioural item check lists were completed by the mothers and teachers which provided assessments of several different behavioural dimensions and behavioural changes over a 5 year period will be analysed with respect to specific life events , life circumstances and primary school experience . |
| 9 | If such money-grubbing goings-on could happen in cheap nursing homes that were checked by the authorities , Buzz wondered what might occur in expensive ones , where there was a greater possibility for profit ? |
| 10 | They were halted by the police , stones were thrown , and the European Superinten-dent opened fire on the crowd , killing two and wounding five others . |
| 11 | The fact that Western cultures were placed by the anthropologists on the uppermost rungs reflects their ethnocentric perspective ! |
| 12 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 13 | In the unreformed NHS , the ambiguities about corporate purpose were compounded by the difficulties individuals had in establishing a distinctive niche in the policy-making process . |
| 14 | In the past , companies were limited by the types of finance available in the market . |
| 15 | For instance , in Re Hammond and Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 , arbitrators were designated by the parties ' agreement to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by an outgoing tenant of a market garden to his landlord . |
| 16 | Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings , who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) . |
| 17 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 18 | Although a minor error in the recitation of the Vedas was looked upon with strong disapproval , passing events were regarded by the Hindus as devoid of real significance and so it is not surprising that no importance was attached to providing them with accurate dates . |
| 19 | The strike was settled and the miners gained most of their demands , but Truman 's high-handed actions were resented by the unions . |
| 20 | Such action , even if it were resented by the governments , would be hailed with joy by the populations … . |
| 21 | As far as wages were concerned the development officers collected support workers ' timesheets each week , ensured that they were received by the wages office , and then distributed pay cheques ( or cash ) to their workers . |
| 22 | It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home . |
| 23 | It is ringed by villages known as the ‘ seven towns ’ , which for centuries were sustained by the rights of common they enjoyed upon Otmoor 's lush pastures . |
| 24 | ‘ The way you were treated by the teachers if you were staying on was a lot different than if you were leaving . |
| 25 | Nothing happened to either Bitov or Yurchenko on their return to Russia so obviously both were planted in the West to cause confusion and also to show their colleagues back home how badly they were treated by the Americans and British . |
| 26 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 27 | If this step showed a significant difference for the variable examined , then pairs of subgroups were examined by the Newman-Keuls post hoc test . |
| 28 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 29 | Two partitions of heavy wooden panelling did not quite reach the arched ceiling and the other two sides of the room were formed by the walls of the crypt itself . |
| 30 | Details of the troop deployment were formulated by the Saudis and Dick Cheney , the US Defence Secretary , on Aug. 6 , and the next day Bush formally announced that King Fahd had requested that US ground forces and war-planes be dispatched to Saudi Arabia to deter Iraqi aggression ; US combat aircraft and troops started to land at Dharhan in eastern Saudi Arabia that day . |