Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steam and diesel haulage were eventually enjoyed by most of us , the latter represented by a very smart Class 20 . |
| 2 | Both the President and the Secretary of Health and Human Services , Louis Sullivan , welcomed the findings , although the methods of the survey were widely criticized by many independent experts . |
| 3 | Isolated teeth were little damaged by any of the sediment types . |
| 4 | Though agreed between the parties , these proposals were bitterly attacked by some Conservatives as destroying the traditional upper House and by a few Labour members as creating a large new area of patronage for the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Finally , certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes , notably black families living in inner city deprived areas . |
| 6 | Their inspirational demonstrations and innovative classes were long remembered by all those privileged to have been there , and resulted in the first regular Medau Adult Education class being established in Dagenham ESSEX in 1935 . |
| 7 | Her bowels were much improved by this , but Edith still had migraine attacks and trouble with her joints . |
| 8 | However , housing conditions were much improved by this and by the clearance of some 700 slum dwellings . |
| 9 | Outside a bedroom door stood ‘ the great commander 's yellowish boots with the long leggings , which , however , on that evening were agreeably accompanied by some charming little molière slippers , utterly feminine . ’ |
| 10 | Thus I was only too aware that the realities of psychic phenomena were somewhat exaggerated by these treatments . |
| 11 | You were only saved by this new wonder drug , penicillin . ’ |
| 12 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 13 | Relations between masters and men were obviously affected by this development . |
| 14 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 15 | Tyzack 's advertisements , especially in the Financial Times , were eagerly studied by those seeking better opportunities in the pre-headhunting days . |
| 16 | However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . |
| 17 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 18 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say that amongst the people who were not contacted by this project within the first year are some of those seeing doctors on eight occasions . |
| 20 | In a free market , all schools would be able to operate quality control on their raw material in this way , and it would not be long before some children were not wanted by any school because they were ‘ poor examination material ’ . |
| 21 | Not all cases , then , limited the jurists to advancing interpretations of trusts parallel to those of legacies , since trusts were not bound by all civil-law constraints . |
| 22 | To put the matter another way , we might say that the beginnings of humans society were traumatic — that is , that they were occasioned by an overwhelmingly powerful and unexpected event for which our ancestors were not prepared by any instinctual responses of an automatic sort and which left long-lasting and indeed indelible effects on the human psyche . |
| 23 | On the other hand in the fact that they were not limited by any central representative institutions , and that they based their power largely on their armies and bureaucracies , they were in the main stream of continental absolutism . |
| 24 | Yet the permanent achievements of her reign were not surpassed by any other ruler of the age . |
| 25 | The British also conquered the island of Newfoundland , and were not faced by any such problems there . |
| 26 | , B-blocking agents have been associated with similar effects ( Dodson , 1982 ; Pacy et al , 1984b ) , but HDL-cholesterol levels were not affected by either group of drugs in diabetic subjects ( Dodson , 1982 ; Pacy et al , 1984 b ) . |
| 27 | But the first two pairs were on adjacent lanes three and four and so were not affected by any inequality in the lanes . |
| 28 | TNC consists of government proposals but these were not preceded by any kind of inquiry or the involvement of professional educationists or practitioners . |
| 29 | Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project . |
| 30 | Interpretations were not offered by these priests — rather , the dreams themselves were thought to be curative . |