Example sentences of "they were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The Tadjik Communist Party central committee on March 3 expelled from the party Buri Karimov and Nur Tabarov , and on March 19 they were dismissed by the Tadjik Supreme Soviet as , respectively , a Deputy Chairman of the Tadjik Council of Ministers and Tadjik Minister of Culture , for having " compromised themselves " during nationalist unrest in the Tadjik capital , Dushanbe , in mid-February . |
| 4 | They were exploited by an economic system which was in 1880 increasingly characterized by capitalist organization , large-scale production for the market and specialization . |
| 5 | On the way they were disturbed by a lorry . |
| 6 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 7 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 8 | They were rejected by an outcry from within Britain and by the British Prime Minister . |
| 9 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 10 | As far as wages were concerned the development officers collected support workers ' timesheets each week , ensured that they were received by the wages office , and then distributed pay cheques ( or cash ) to their workers . |
| 11 | In early May they were received by the British Ambassador in Constantinople . |
| 12 | In January 1848 they were received by the shah , who was presented with copies of the Old and New Testaments and a translation of Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy ( 1823 ) by Alexander Keith [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | They were received by the group of villagers they joined with no comment other than a whispered bonsoir . |
| 14 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 15 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |
| 16 | Tell her they were sent by a friend who heard she was ill . |
| 17 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 18 | In South Africa the social and racial tone of stations was institutionalized through apartheid , although systems of racial segregation had , of course , existed long before they were systematized by the Nationalists . |
| 19 | They were overcome by the thundering avalanche as they skied on a fairly flat , marked piste on a mountain at St Martine De Belleville in sunny weather on Saturday . |
| 20 | Nothing happened to either Bitov or Yurchenko on their return to Russia so obviously both were planted in the West to cause confusion and also to show their colleagues back home how badly they were treated by the Americans and British . |
| 21 | In addition , two colleagues in naval intelligence had recently been taken on by ICI to be trained as work study officers , and spoke enthusiastically to me of how they were treated by the company . |
| 22 | The only difference this time is that arrangements have been made for the BBC to collect the licence fee , but the rules are precisely the same as they were when they were collected by the Government . |
| 23 | ‘ They were shot by the Germans . ’ |
| 24 | During the attack on Wheeler there was pandemonium all over the base , men fought to move the parked aircraft before they were damaged by the air strike . |
| 25 | And sometimes they were replaced by a more traumatic memory . |
| 26 | They were replaced by a local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie associated with the ascendant manufacturing and commercial sectors , while rural labour gave way to industrial labour . |
| 27 | They were replaced by a chilling mental picture of Edmund as she had last seen him . |
| 28 | The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else . |
| 29 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 30 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |