Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 2 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 3 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 4 | Other such developments were carried out by the Ashworth brothers at Bank Top , Egerton and New Eagley , where estates were provided with schools , libraries and chapels , and each house had its own garden and piped water . |
| 5 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 6 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 7 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 8 | he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours . |
| 9 | It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully . |
| 10 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |
| 11 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 12 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 13 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 14 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 15 | While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members . |
| 16 | The lowliest of railway jobs were carried out by the mountain Indians or the men of slightly mixed blood , the cholos . |
| 17 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 18 | These experiments were carried out by the method reported by Huijghebaert and Hofmann . |
| 19 | Under working practices at the time , junctions so approved could be put into full operation before final safety checks were carried out by the inspectorate . |
| 20 | Unsafe act audits were carried out by the management , by the weekly staff and by the contractors . |
| 21 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 22 | But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable . |
| 23 | When our dad died , we were turned out by the Bridgewater agent . |
| 24 | International concern for these extremely rare mammals arose after thousands of grey seals were wiped out by the canine distemper virus . |
| 25 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 26 | Suddenly , all the sounds were drowned out by the whining and screaming of the huge drill . |
| 27 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 28 | Eventually this was thought to be precarious and the landowners were bought out by the Bishop 's Castle Railway Defence Trust to which my father had to contribute five hundred pounds . |
| 29 | As the depths were called out by the leadsmen , it was obvious that all was not well . |
| 30 | Four issues of AR-WACC Newsletter were brought out by the AR-WACC Secretariat last year . |