Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The engines were developed by a commercial company with the backing of a $700,000 from the California Energy Commission . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From the 13th century they were inhabited by a sensitive , hardy , mountain folk full of merriment and superstition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fear was something felt by other people when they found an unexpected lump under their arm or were mugged by a complete stranger . |
| 12 | Well-concealed redoubts were guarded by a triple barrier of barbed wire , fifty yards deep . |
| 13 | Details about the alleged incident were given by a prosecuting lawyer at Belfast Crown Court in the trial of three Londonderry men . |
| 14 | Parades of shabby shops , gathered like mongrel dogs on a street corner , were parted by a grim council estate , and then reassembled . |
| 15 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 16 | Any whether worries were eased by a gradual lifting of the gloom as England went in again . |
| 17 | Initiatives on recruitment and retention of staff were highlighted by a major national campaign run jointly by the Department of Health and Nursing Times in 1988 . |
| 18 | Most ventures were undertaken by a joint-stock company authorised by act of parliament to raise a capital sum from a share issue and supplementary capital by borrowing . |
| 19 | I had never learnt any Science — or History — because at school we were taught by a savage creature of uncertain temper , who had favourites , of whom I was terrified , so I learnt nothing . |
| 20 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 21 | The slides from this entire series of patients were examined by a single experienced cytologist ( AD ) . |
| 22 | Rectal tissue sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin from all the monozygotic twins were examined by an experienced pathologist with regard to inflammatory changes . |
| 23 | One answer to this could be that articulate Europeans , however much they differed , were formed by a common educational heritage and thought of themselves as Europeans when they looked at the rest of the world . |
| 24 | He feels that Keyser 's problems were hastened by an unwise acquisition . |
| 25 | Initially the two wings were linked by a tunnel , but in 1880 they were joined by a six-storey addition . |
| 26 | We shook hands and were joined by a sparkling red-head : ‘ Dr Sherry Brown , hello . |
| 27 | Here we were joined by a small group of French Commandos , no doubt with the same views in mind ; something to drink and eye up the local crumpet ! |
| 28 | In time they were joined by a certain Valentino , an elderly man with spectacles and a purple birthmark , who unlocked a shed beside the pool , turned taps and wheels , and announced , in his role as the Ketterings ’ regular pool attendant , ‘ Va bene adesso . ’ |
| 29 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 30 | They were joined by a growing audience who left the pub to watch the spectacle , jeering and shouting and offering encouragement . |