Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [noun] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 2 | At that date the subject-matter of the photographs was perfectly legible and the works gained their force and content from the way two or more photographs were placed side by side : a woman 's face in close-up , an ominous highway at night . |
| 3 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |
| 4 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 5 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 6 | They were given briefings by North or sometimes by Abrams in the Old Executive Office Building , shown photographs of airports and harbours , and made privy to mysterious movements of Soviet aircraft and ships . |
| 7 | FC Brugge were fined £118,000 by UEFA for their supporters ' part in crowd disturbances inside the Velodrome earlier in the Champions League . |
| 8 | Barely 60 seconds after Spink had saved Bull 's header at full stretch , Wolves were caught ball-watching by Gordon Cowans 's curling free-kick . |
| 9 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 10 | Both he and Robert of Courson , another Englishman , were made cardinals by Innocent . |
| 11 | Some of the best specimens of trunks were preserved cell by cell in silica , and these show even the finest details if they are cut and polished . |
| 12 | The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects . |
| 13 | As a result of exposure by Greenpeace , vessels were refused entry by harbourmasters and port managers . |
| 14 | When four Poitevin knights were taken prisoner by Richard 's Angevin grandfather Count Geoffrey Plantagenet they won their release by composing and singing a song in praise of their captor . |
| 15 | They are visiting Thailand because they were denied visas by Rangoon . |
| 16 | They are visiting Thailand because they were denied visas by Rangoon . |
| 17 | He added that the freeing of Americans and others who were held hostage by Dignity Battalion gunmen would be ‘ a priority for us today ’ . |
| 18 | The town subscribed towards a new steamer engine which was christened Constance by Mrs Norman McCorquodale in 1913 . |
| 19 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 20 | Deeside Training Enterprise was given £100,000 by Grampian Enterprise in 1991 to show ex-servicemen and women how best to sell their skills to civilian employers . |
| 21 | Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke 's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot . |
| 22 | Between these two journeys , in 147–6 , he was given ships by Scipio to explore the coasts of Africa ( Plin . |
| 23 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 24 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 25 | Declination was given importance by Pierrehumbert ( 1979 , 1987 ) ; see Cruttenden ( 1986 ) , pp.67–72 for a summary . |
| 26 | The announcement followed a visit to Libya by the agency 's Director-General , Hans Blix , who was given assurances by Kadhafi that Libya was not trying to produce an atomic bomb . |
| 27 | Miss Graham , who was taught fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald , got it wrong . |
| 28 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 29 | Righton was fined £900 by Evesham court , Worcs , after he admitted importing and possessing indecent material . |
| 30 | Paul George Wilson , 25 , was fined £50 by Durham magistrates after he admitted carrying a knife with a blade over 3in long . |