Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 2 | In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties . |
| 3 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 4 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 5 | Training materials were developed by the Scottish Office in collaboration with colleges of education . |
| 6 | As population grew and harvests failed more often , attitudes towards the rate-receiving poor hardened , especially after the food crisis of 1795 – 6 when even firmly rising rents were outpaced by the soaring poor rate . |
| 7 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 8 | I do n't know quite why that should be except that in the Fifties all my peers were fascinated by the industrialised , consumer society of which the USA was the supreme example . |
| 9 | At that time , European scholars were fascinated by the technological and , as they saw them , moral triumphs of their age , and obsessed with the necessity for progress in all fields of human endeavour ; they felt a positive obligation to contemplate continually the long , hard road along which man had struggled in his search for perfection . |
| 10 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 11 | Last , while not wishing to prescribe a particular pattern of operation , we were fascinated by the whole business of the micro-politics of change within project schools , In particular , the management of innovation through the institution of committees , the control of agendas , the persuasion of individuals and ( putting it bluntly ) the Machiavellian manipulation of situations were features of the project in action . |
| 12 | Confidence intervals were calculated by the exact method . |
| 13 | All four of the white Los Angeles police officers , whose acquittal in the Rodney King beating case sparked several days of rioting in the city in late April and early May [ see p. 38894 ] , were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 4 on federal charges of violating King 's civil rights . |
| 14 | Over a hundred offenders , including Northern magnates like Sir John Fauconberg and Sir Robert Capon , were indicted by the sworn evidence of the Forest officers and other jurors . |
| 15 | Its thickness and heaviness were emphasized by the bold strokes of its painted decoration , dark orange , dark pink , and navy blue . |
| 16 | The demonstrations were arranged by the Mongolian Democratic Union ( MDU ) , an organization formed in December 1989 [ see p. 37124 ] and given official recognition on Dec. 22 by the Mongolian parliament , the People 's Great Hural . |
| 17 | From the 13th century they were inhabited by a sensitive , hardy , mountain folk full of merriment and superstition . |
| 18 | There was always the possibility that there might be other places , beyond the limits of the known , which were inhabited by the unnatural monsters of fable . |
| 19 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 20 | Other additional areas that are related to managerial skills , such as publicity , and industrial relations/local authority structure , were listed by a further 15% of authorities , so that this topic in general figured quite highly as one for which a considerable number of authorities perceived a need for external course provision . |
| 21 | Some 1,200 Italians — most of whom committed atrocities in Yugoslavia — were listed by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , but none was handed over . |
| 22 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
| 23 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 24 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 25 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
| 26 | After a 16 hour fast , rats ( n=16/treatment group ) were sedated by an intramuscular injection of 0.1 ml Hypnorm ( fentanyl citrate 0.315 mg/ml , fluanisone 10 mg/ml ; Janssen Pharmaceutical Ltd , Oxford , UK ) and 0.25 mg diazepam . |
| 27 | Scandals in Nevis and Tortola were publicised by the African Institution but Whitehall was reluctant to challenge the constitutional convention which consigned such questions to the colonial authorities . |
| 28 | Consumer demand led to higher imports of manufactured goods and the inflationary pressures were checked by a credit-squeeze : the bubble of the housing market burst and jobs were lost in construction , banking and shopping . |
| 29 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 30 | The talks were scheduled to open on Jan. 7 but were delayed by the late arrival of the Arab teams in protest at the issuing of deportation orders on Jan. 2 against 12 Palestinian activists from the Israeli occupied territories [ see p. 38741 ] . |