Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two cars were joined by another squad car and headed north through Swiss Cottage , Hendon and Mill Hill . |
| 2 | Phages from plaques that gave rise to identical signals on both filters were purified by another round of plating and screening and were then subcloned to Bluescript plasmids according to the manufacturer 's ( Stratagene ) instructions . |
| 3 | This new album , in particular , is so imbued with the loss of an ebbing innocence that it can be hard to believe they were written by another person . |
| 4 | Sixteen patients refused , of whom 14 were replaced by another patient from the 12 for each doctor . |
| 5 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
| 6 | An RNLI spokesman said : ‘ They were lucky that they were accompanied by another yacht because their radio had been put out of action . ’ |
| 7 | He and the lorry driver were hit by another lorry , and killed outright |
| 8 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 9 | We have to thank the somewhat substantial conquests of that outstanding French general for a high degree of uniformity in some aspects of European law , for his armies were followed by another army of administrators who imposed their own type of law as well as order wherever they conquered . |
| 10 | They were followed by another couple , David and Patricia North , with Frank Sinatra bringing up the rear . |
| 11 | The discounts were extended by another Housing Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 12 | His claims to the viceroyalty were canvassed by another kindergartener , Geoffrey Dawson , who was now in a position of prominence as editor of The Times . |
| 13 | But as a result of the September shipment one hostage , Benjamin Weir , came out , and from then on American misgivings were countered by another thought : the scheme had worked . |
| 14 | As we approached Prospect Point before the Narrows and Lions Gate Bridge , we were hailed by another craft closer to the shore . |
| 15 | The roads to the Lateran from the west and the north were controlled by another family , the Frangipani . |
| 16 | It was joined by another voice ; he realized it was his own . |
| 17 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 18 | The waiter was joined by another waiter , equally stoic ; their faces were grained by evening shadow . |
| 19 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 20 | The first lecture series was given by Max Müller , a signatory , in the spring of 1878 ; the venue , the Chapterhouse at Westminster Abbey , was arranged by another signatory , Dean Stanley ; the course proved so popular that Müller gave each lecture twice . |
| 21 | I remind Labour Members that that article , which was signed in 1972 , was referred by another place to the European Court of Justice , and that question of compatibility must be resolved . |
| 22 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 23 | A companion in the boat was rescued by another speedboat . |
| 24 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 25 | A teenager was killed and another injured by a bomb which destroyed an electricity pylon , and a radio presenter at a pro-government radio station was injured by another bomb ; the capital and towns to the north were again plunged into darkness by power cuts . |
| 26 | He was answered by another nod . |
| 27 | The owl hooted in the beech tree and , to Erika 's deep delight , it was answered by another owl . |
| 28 | He was saved by another servant who recognised him from the banquet . |
| 29 | In Sanders v Parry , the defendant whilst in the plaintiff 's employment as an assistant solicitor was told by another member of staff that she was dissatisfied with her employment . |
| 30 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |