Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 2 | New journal : The Institute of Management , which was formed this week by the merger of two previous management bodies , has launched Professional Manager , a bi-monthly journal for its 75,000 members . |
| 3 | The severity of the depression was highlighted this week by the decision of the Automobile Association to pull out of the retail package holiday market , creating 400 redundancies . |
| 4 | The Attorney General of the Federal District , Ignacio Morales Lechuga , was given 72 hours by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to find the culprits . |
| 5 | The dolphin received further protection in 1975 , when the District Magistrate of Sukkur made trapping or killing of dolphins illegal under a Criminal Procedure Code , which was given extensive publicity by drums , through radio and newspapers , and by placing posters in key locations . |
| 6 | Deng 's campaign was given prominent support by a large number of provincial governors attending the session , many of whom promised to press ahead with economic reforms regardless of central policies . |
| 7 | He was given folic acid by mouth . |
| 8 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |
| 9 | The list was given wider circulation by the monthly art newspaper Kunstavisen in its January/February 1992 number . |
| 10 | Er i and it was given that image by pointing the cameras at at at the flats , and then spieling off the crime figures for the whole subdivision . |
| 11 | The long-awaited law allowing free travel and emigration from the Soviet Union was given general approval by the USSR Supreme Soviet on May 20 . |
| 12 | A full display of Christian Aid posters completed the scene downstairs ; and the whole Sale was given real distinction by Mrs Brackett 's elegant hand-written posters and Mr Moore 's stylish boards . |
| 13 | The media law , which was given final approval by the Senate ( upper house of parliament ) on Aug. 5 , regulated advertising time on state and private television and defined the proportions of Italian , European or other films which could be shown . |
| 14 | Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38 . |
| 15 | Across the room , amid a throng of guests , Jack Butler was given two drinks by a nun . |
| 16 | There were no French madrigalists but , beginning in the 1560s , the native polyphonic chanson was given new life by the immensely popular example of Lassus , whose chansons are often shot through with madrigalian techniques . |
| 17 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 18 | Businessman Keith Skelton , 47 , of The Crescent , Nunthorpe , was given conditional bail by Scarborough magistrates at the weekend accused of obtaining £44,000 by deception . |
| 19 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 20 | Our commitment to that principle was given greater weight by the fact that benefit claims for students frequently presented administrative problems out of all proportion to the amounts of benefit finally awarded and the duration of the benefit periods . |
| 21 | And and that was given higher coverage by the press . |
| 22 | The regime was given strong backing by the Soviet Union but failed to gain widespread popular support . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister 's decision to take legal action was given strong support by other Socialists , but criticized by some leading politicians of the centre-right , who argued that it might constitute a restriction of freedom of speech . |
| 24 | However , research into this area of hydrocarbon generation was given fresh impetus by the first ‘ energy crisis ’ in 1973 which saw gas assume a more important role as a primary energy source . |
| 25 | While Wyllie himself played the leading role in his side 's narrow victory , he was given excellent support by the equally experienced second-row pair , Ian Burnside and Ben Gordon , who won the touchline battle , and Finlay Calder , playing possibly his last first XV game for the club . |
| 26 | He refused to budge , and was given full support by Douglas-Home , whose diplomatic skills softened the rough edges of Heath 's ‘ extraordinary resolution ’ . |
| 27 | He entered Paris on 25 August and in October his government was given full recognition by the Allies . |
| 28 | He was given able assistance by Mike Power , a long-standing member of the Communist Party with high-level contacts in the left-wing unions . |
| 29 | In this context , the discovery that Schistosome mansoni uses TNF-α as a stimulus for egg production was given added significance by the observation that the site where these parasites achieve sexual maturity , the portal venous system , is particularly rich in this cytokine ( McKerrow ) . |
| 30 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |