Example sentences of "[was/were] by [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well anyway er , you see and well anyway er so when , that night and we were by coach of course bus , went there by bus and so that night she said to me , what are you doing when , in the bus , she said , what are you doing this evening ? |
| 2 | Official figures for the period from the beginning of 1982 to October 1986 ( Danas , 11 November 1986 ) report 118 rapes in Kosovo , of which 16 were by ‘ Albanian irredentists ’ on Serbian or Montenegrin women , 5 were by Serbs or Montenegrins on women of their own community , and 97 were by Albanians on Albanians . |
| 3 | Secondly , the proceedings were by way of bankruptcy petition . |
| 4 | It was argued that these assignments were by way of charge . |
| 5 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 6 | Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty . |
| 7 | The way in which glacial processes were studied was by investigations in areas including Iceland , Baffin Island , Antarctica , Alaska , Scandinavia , and the European Alps and it was from such research that the understanding and interpretation of past glacial systems was enhanced , as in Scotland by Sissons ( 1967 ) . |
| 8 | Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance . |
| 9 | At a time when most learning was by word of mouth , the short story was easily remembered . |
| 10 | Ironically their last home defeat was by Glenavon in January this year . |
| 11 | Ironically their last home defeat was by Glenavon in January this year . |
| 12 | This was by way of explanation . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to any person as buyer or owner of the goods , and that person transfers the document to a person who takes it in good faith and for valuable consideration , then — ; ( a ) if the last-mentioned transfer was by way of sale the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit is defeated ; and ( b ) if the last-mentioned transfer was made by way of pledge or other disposition for value , the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit can only be exercised subject to the rights of the transferee . ’ |
| 14 | This was by way of introduction to Minton 's contribution to a regular column on hobbies . |
| 15 | Until quite recently the only way to get to Fair Isle was by boat from Shetland , and a succession of island-based craft have carried the name of ‘ Good Shepherd ’ . |
| 16 | Reproduction in these early plants was by means of minute spores . |
| 17 | It was weak in its doctrine of the holy spirit and perhaps heretical in arguing that sanctification was by means of sacraments . |
| 18 | The traditional way of financing acquisitions was by means of equity , often on a share-for-share exchange basis . |
| 19 | The earliest and most widespread manner in which precious substances were used to influence the unseen powers behind the visible world was by means of sacrifices and votive offerings . |
| 20 | In the remaining cases scoring was by means of descriptors , describing the manifestation of the variable in five increasing stages . |
| 21 | For some time , the estimation was by titration with soap , giving insoluble calcium and magnesium soaps , but this is now replaced by the EDTA titration . |