Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 2 | Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke 's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot . |
| 3 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 4 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 5 | Declination was given importance by Pierrehumbert ( 1979 , 1987 ) ; see Cruttenden ( 1986 ) , pp.67–72 for a summary . |
| 6 | Miss Graham , who was taught fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald , got it wrong . |
| 7 | To leave these tracks was to risk death by drowning , and in the course of the subsequent fighting on several occasions both men and pack animals were lost in this way . ’ |
| 8 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 9 | The 1941 film was voted top by critics and directors polled by Sight And Sound magazine . |
| 10 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 11 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
| 12 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 13 | An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 . |
| 14 | She believed she was owed money by Mr Archer for the sale . |
| 15 | He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial . |
| 16 | Shemin Mohammed , 36 , of Marine Prade , Whitby , was granted bail by magistrates at Whitby yesterday . |
| 17 | This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies . |
| 18 | This was done industry by industry [ at SIC Class level ] and separately for large and small companies . |
| 19 | And that was done piece by piece as it was possible to do it . |
| 20 | The station at Butterley was demolished but the building today was moved stone by stone from Whitwell in North Derbyshire and rebuilt by the Midland Railway Centre . |
| 21 | When the line came through here , it was built inch by inch through solid rock . |
| 22 | Dr Stehelin said he worked for Dr Bishop and Dr Varmus in their San Francisco laboratory between 1972 and 1975 , and was the principal signer of the first article in the scientific magazine Nature , in 1976 , that said a cancer virus was causing cancer by means of a gene it had captured from normal cells . |
| 23 | Originally , he was promised surgery by December 1991 . |
| 24 | The Soviet Union , through its dupes and sympathisers , was exporting revolution by violence . |
| 25 | Reflecting American demand , the acreage of the Bekaa Valley 's opium poppy fields was doubling year by year . |
| 26 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 27 | The speech was translated phrase by phrase into six languages . |
| 28 | David Lambert , 35 , a video producer from Clapham , south London , was refused bail by magistrates at Reigate , Surrey . |
| 29 | The poison was not given to the Indians in massive doses that would have provoked a reaction , but was administered drop by drop , until it brought about the loss of personality . |
| 30 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |