Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 2 | They were for use by statesmen and diplomats , working aids for the men engaged in the conduct of international affairs . |
| 3 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 4 | The biggest sales were of works by classic , early twentieth-century artists : Richard Gray Gallery of Chicago sold six works in the ‘ mid to high six figures ’ , including paintings by Picasso and Paul Klee , and a rare early alabaster sculpture by Henry Moore . |
| 5 | Twelve awards were made for programmes of research , all of which were under way by November 1983 . |
| 6 | A total of 13 deputies and former ministers were under investigation by Milan magistrates , and nine were being investigated in other towns . |
| 7 | gone and left us , half past eight , we were in bed by quarter to nine and |
| 8 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 9 | One way of distributing offices was of course by sale , which became extremely common in late medieval and early modern Europe . |
| 10 | Up to a certain point I was succeeding in both roles , driven as I was towards success by anxiety and the fear of failure . |
| 11 | Millns , who has signed a new five-year contract at Grace Road , was under scrutiny by England manager Micky Stewart during a victory over Essex before a foot injury struck him down , but he can not have done his claims much harm with 5 for 67 to make him — at that time — the country 's leading wicket-taker . |
| 12 | This process was under way by c . |
| 13 | The secretary-general of the socialists ( PSI ) Bettino Craxi on Dec. 15 received a cautionary warrant advising him that he was under investigation by Milan magistrates for 40 instances of receiving money illegally since 1985 in violation of the law on party finances . |
| 14 | The agent was in London by noon . |
| 15 | In January 1599 he raised levies in Suffolk for Ireland , and was in Connaught by April ; in January 1600 he accompanied Essex to Dublin , although the queen had previously ordered him to stay in England . |
| 16 | The 1990 trade balance was in deficit by $310,000,000 ; exports totalled $320,000,000 , and imports $630,000,000 . |
| 17 | Sothebys were unfortunate enough to misattribute a French eighteenth-century picture , which was in fact by Fragonard . |
| 18 | Over the next few days I was in touch by letter and by phone with Eliot , and finally it was arranged , in a note dated 9 May , that I should lunch with him on Thursday 19 May , which , as he carefully specified , was Ascension Day . |
| 19 | A model for further development of the concept of partnership had been agreed , and Developments in Partnership in Validation — the ‘ blue book ’ as it was nicknamed from its cover — was in circulation by September . |
| 20 | The radiator followed three months later , and the exhaust was in place by September — as were the flying instruments/gauges/compass which we had shipped to us from Florida . |
| 21 | Even the smaller contingent was delayed : less than a quarter of it was in place by April 1st . |