Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results were calculated by reference to a standard curve . |
| 2 | Relative retention times and response factors were calculated by comparison of authentic standards to coprostanol . |
| 3 | Some threatened evictions , it should be added , were arranged by collusion between farmers and workers in order to force the hand of local authorities who otherwise would not admit tied cottage tenants to their housing waiting lists . |
| 4 | This patient was , however , excluded from the study since her symptoms were explained by infection with Campylobacter jejuni . |
| 5 | The item states ‘ Guests at a luxury hotel were poisoned by cyanide in the swimming pool yesterday . |
| 6 | As the US television service CNN 's transmissions were received by satellite in Baghdad , it was a comparatively straightforward matter to assess the effectiveness of such activities . |
| 7 | At least three stool samples per patient were examined by culture for enteropathogenic Salmonella spp , Shigella spp , Campylobacter spp , Yersinia spp , Streptococcus spp , Staphylococcus spp , Clostridium spp , and mycobacteria . |
| 8 | In addition , stools were examined by microscopy for ova and parasites , including Cryptosporidium and Isopora . |
| 9 | Bands in the digests were assigned by comparison with Maxam-Gilbert dimethylsulphate-piperidine markers specific for guanine or by comparison with previously published cleavage data . |
| 10 | After fully informed consent was obtained eligible patients were registered by phone at the central statistical office at the University of Vienna . |
| 11 | We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts . |
| 12 | The broadcasts were relayed by satellite by the Avrasya television company . |
| 13 | In March 1981 , the military took charge of the Bourequats , and they were flown by helicopter to the mountains , and taken blindfolded by truck to Tazmamert . |
| 14 | They were suffering from hypothermia and were flown by helicopter to hospital . |
| 15 | Standing by , were six Red Devils from the Parachute Regiment who were flown by helocopter to their drop point above the Thames , close to the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 16 | Cells were harvested by incubation with 1 mM EDTA in tris buffered saline for 20 minutes and centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 10 minutes . |
| 17 | In England , parish registers providing dates of birth were instituted by law in 1538 . |
| 18 | Newspapers were dominated by news of the war . |
| 19 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 20 | Following a 20 min incubation at room temperature , protein-DNA complexes and free DNA were resolved by electrophoresis for 2.5 h ( 200–250 V , 30–35 mA ) on polyacrylamide gels run in 1 Tris-borate-EDTA ( 53 ) at 10°C . |
| 21 | Whereas 1 in 4 marriages were preceded by cohabitation in the 1960s , the corresponding proportion in the 1980s is about 7 in 10 . |
| 22 | Seventy people working for Penrod Drilling Company were rescued by helicopter from a gas drilling rig in the North Sea yesterday after a leak on a platform near by . |
| 23 | We also found that cadherin epitopes on LC ( and KC ) were degraded by trypsin in 1mM EDTA ( TE cells ) and protected from trypsin by 1mM calcium ( TC cells ) , as previously reported for E- and P-cadherins ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | Major education and crime bills were dropped by Congress on Oct. 2 in the face of a determined Republican filibuster in the Senate . |
| 25 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 26 | Outmoded smokestack industries in Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary were shattered by competition from the affluent West . |
| 27 | In each experiment , 10 7 T2 cells were transfected by electroporation with 2μg each of rat cDNAs TAP1 a ( mtp1 a , clone 510–15 ) or TAP2 a ( mtp2 a , clone 441–11 ) in the pH β APr-1-neo expression vector . |
| 28 | The upshot of this was that the forgery allegation was abandoned and wholly new lines of defence were added by amendment to Mr. Steed 's counterclaim for rectification . |
| 29 | Little or no formal techniques were being used or developed : problems were solved by rule of thumb and guess-work . |
| 30 | In the drought year of 1976 and in this summer , too , many trees were stressed by lack of water . |