Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Oxford ( 1957 ) , Natal ( 1962 ) , and Edinburgh ( 1974 ) . |
| 2 | The sentence of death was imposed on him by Ayatollah Khomeini for alleged blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses . |
| 3 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 4 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 5 | That same year the rabbinical diploma was conferred on him by Rabbi Weiss , lector in Vienna . |
| 6 | ‘ He was dumped on me by your friend when he vanished , promising , of course , to be back in a day or two . ’ |
| 7 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 8 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 9 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 10 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 11 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 12 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |
| 13 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 14 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 15 | Nick claimed 15 grams of cannabis was planted on him by police , in an attempt to extract a bribe . |