Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DNA types were designated by the first initial of each family surname , and DNA subtypes by the addition of ‘ a ’ or ‘ b ’ ( Table I ) . |
| 3 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 4 | All three hung in the air , moving and looping , until they were joined by a fourth : white , green , red , blue . |
| 5 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 6 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 7 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 8 | Since in North Rhine-Westphalia the SPD won 38 constituency seats , it was entitled to 24 additional members and these were supplied by the first 24 available candidates on its list . |
| 9 | New cottages were envisaged by the fourth tee but the District council planners objected , so a site alongside the 18th fairway was agreed to a building proceeded . |
| 10 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 11 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 12 | Changes to Cuba 's 1976 Constitution were approved by the 11th ordinary meeting of the National Assembly of Popular Power on July 11-12 . |
| 13 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 14 | Although Cohen had been successful , the state 's Supreme Court had overturned the result on the grounds that the newspapers were protected by the First Amendment . |
| 15 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 16 | His novels were praised by the first Earl of Balfour , and were said to have been the favourite reading of Queen Alexandra . |
| 17 | The market prospects for bauxite are improving and the industry is being redeveloped with the help of the former multinational company owners who were displaced by the first Manley government . |
| 18 | Mr. Lennon 's rates were reduced by a third . |
| 19 | but a large group in the party were scarred by the First World War for the rest of their lives . |
| 20 | The Russians were opposed by the Fourth Austro-Hungarian Army ( Archduke Joseph Ferdinand ) just south of the Pripet Marshes with , on its right , the First Army ( von Brlog ) . |
| 21 | Between 1962 and 1970 , numbers were cut by a third , from 127,000 to 83,000 . |
| 22 | The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position : |
| 23 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 24 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 25 | On the dining-room walls today hang generations of Macleods ; Boswell and Johnson were entertained by the 23rd chief , Norman , who did not marry for a decade after the travellers stayed here . |
| 26 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 27 | On Nov. 29 the Soviet Union had denied that it was the source of highly enriched uranium , traces of which were discovered by the seventh UN nuclear inspection team at the Tuwaitha research complex near Baghdad . |
| 28 | They stayed quite still , smiling back at it , until it disappeared with a plop , leaving ripples of disturbance that were erased by the next wave . |
| 29 | But , in those terms , taking the very wide range of social systems which were studied by the first generation of British social anthropologists as a model ( the list includes the Trobrianders , the Tikopia , the Bemba , the Tswana , the Azande , the Nuer , the Nupe , and the Tallensi among others ) , is it possible to formulate a useful stereotype of what this notional entity " a primitive society " or " a savage ( wild ) society " is like ? |
| 30 | Although he died around 1307 , his memory is preserved on the Langtoft Cross which was erected by the last Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere on the small green at the southern end of the village . |