Example sentences of "was [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hunting trip by Saudi Arabia 's Prince Bandar was stopped by environmental police in Niger after 55 bustard falcon carcasses were found . |
| 2 | Naturally , he was stopped by British Customs ; what gay men returning from Amsterdam ( or San Francisco , or … ) is not ? |
| 3 | It was joined by small shopkeepers , doctors , dentists , lawyers , and airline pilots not from some conspiracy but because of the damaging re-distribu-tive effects of inflation which all were experiencing . |
| 4 | Rebecca , dressed in a black mini-dress , was joined by joint leaders of the DHL Everest expedition Peter Earl and John Barry . |
| 5 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 6 | Matthew was joined by other members of his delegation and the pro-apartheid Conservative Party , the nominally independent homelands of Ciskei and Bophutatswna and four other groups . |
| 7 | The driver sauntered back from the office , and was joined by two labourers who would load his cart . |
| 8 | Mr Sutton , 28 , gave chase as the raider ran off and was joined by two friends from Tom Pepper 's pub nearby — joint licensee Ian Hewitt and bar manager Paul Archer . |
| 9 | By the end of the summit the Convention , described as a " bill of rights " for almost 3,000 million children under the age of 16 , was ratified by 48 countries . |
| 10 | Theo 's visit was intended by both brothers to heal a rift which had developed between them . |
| 11 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 12 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 13 | A headstone was erected by local admirers and many years later , when Cumnock required a new burial ground , the intended disgrace was completely reversed by the people of the town deciding to have the ground around and including the minister 's grave consecrated as their new cemetery . |
| 14 | West German fuel rods were formerly sent for storage in the USA , until the practice was halted by environmental objections in 1988 . |
| 15 | What was witnessed by British troops , however , was the initial treatment by Tito 's partisans of the Croats surrendered around Bleiburg , including many civilians who were marched north-east through Austria towards the Yugoslav frontier near Lavamund . |
| 16 | As Mr Ashdown left the school he was mobbed by enthusiastic youngsters : |
| 17 | Chung Won Shik , appointed in late May in an effort to secure greater stability [ see p. 38177 ] , was mobbed by hostile students while visiting Hankuk University of Foreign Studies . |
| 18 | Once she had admitted the hope , she was inundated by whole floods of desire ; the project took life in her mind , the trees grew leaves , the cathedrals grew towers and arches , the river flowed beneath its bridges . |
| 19 | Their Jewish inheritance apart ( and no serious understanding of his music interests can afford not to give this a very high place , as we shall see ) , was formed by such artists as Eddie Fisher , Gordon Jenkins , Vaughan Monroe , Patti Page , Dinah Shore , Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray , who followed in the wake of the big bands . |
| 20 | That law was formed by ecclesiastical lawyers who knew the Roman Law . |
| 21 | The club was formed by 22 noblemen and gentlemen of Fife who started the ‘ Society of St Andrews Golfers ’ in 1754 . |
| 22 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 23 | The Baker explanation was dismissed by some members of Congress as a lame attempt to deflect complaints , from both right and left , that the administration bungled a chance to remove General Noriega . |
| 24 | So the theory went , and the ideology of an education available to talent was sustained by new developments in psychometry which made the notion of ability one much easier to substantiate . |
| 25 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 26 | The appeal was heard by three judges of the Federal Court , Justices Shepherd , Foster , and Hill . |
| 27 | er sustained willpower which was highlighted by frequent illnesses , especially in his er president of the university , where Wilson suffered defeats and conflicts and transfer of reform of rebuilding the university , and also we see there er back part of his life a Wilson of his own er , seem to direct some of his rage against er , a coloured colleague of his , a . |
| 28 | Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced . |
| 29 | The thought that an accident could follow such a clear and restricted pattern was treated by most objectors with complete disbelief . |
| 30 | Acute cellular rejection was treated by short courses of high dose corticosteroids or OKT 3 . |