Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And they were egged on by some Labour MPs and councillors who refused to comply with the law themselves . |
| 3 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 4 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 5 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 6 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |
| 7 | Any crumbs which fell off the table were pounced on by big bronze lizards — skinks . |
| 8 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 9 | Different lessons were passed on by other grandparents . |
| 10 | ‘ When the group of witnesses rushed to pull those injured from under the wheels of the armoured personnel carrier , they were fired on by automatic weapons . ’ |
| 11 | But the Hercules was locked-on to again and , as it was manoeuvring , the crew believe they were fired on by anti-aircraft shells . |
| 12 | They were in a tank like this when they were fired on by American A10 tankbusters . |
| 13 | French warships approached Haiphong on 6 March , and despite the agreement were fired on by Chinese batteries . |
| 14 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 15 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 16 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 17 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 18 | In May 1835 , the relieving officer of the new Chailey Union was set on by thirty men in Ringmer , demanding ‘ money or blood ’ ; they got their relief in cash instead of the food tickets he offered . |
| 19 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 20 | The term ‘ Majorism ’ , briefly promoted by the Prime Minister 's Office , was frowned on by Tory Central Office . |
| 21 | ( Presumably his fatal illness was brought on by severe shock . ) |
| 22 | What seems to have happened is that the distinction , drawn perhaps from one of the few classical instances ( of Ulpian or Papinian ) , was seized on by epi-classical law and later adopted as a post-classical touchstone . |
| 23 | A MAN was sexually assaulted yesterday when he was pounced on by two male attackers . |
| 24 | This was pounced on by 34 of Darlington 's 44 GPs who said there was a clear implication Mr Fallon believed those fund-holding surgeries to be superior to the others . |
| 25 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
| 26 | During 1976 the Firefly 's Rolls-Royce Griffon XII was worked on by local aircraft engineers and they managed to get it running again . |
| 27 | A copy was sent on by Eighth Army at 0925 hrs on 15 May to 5 Corps for action [ KP 113 ] . |