Example sentences of "was [verb] by [adj] [noun] " 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 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 3 | Naturally , he was stopped by British Customs ; what gay men returning from Amsterdam ( or San Francisco , or … ) is not ? |
| 4 | In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel , which was ravaged by death-watch beetle . |
| 5 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 6 | Dr Ashok Kumar was joined by Labour housing spokesman George Howarth on a visit to a community refurbishment scheme on the Hornsea Estate , Hemlington . |
| 7 | In the new government the PNV was joined by Basque Solidarity ( EA ) , with nine parliamentary seats , itself a splinter group of the PNV , and by Basque Left ( EE ) , with six . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rebecca , dressed in a black mini-dress , was joined by joint leaders of the DHL Everest expedition Peter Earl and John Barry . |
| 10 | Later , Mobbs was joined by other subject groups . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One included Red Square on its route , and was joined by Russian President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 14 | The driver sauntered back from the office , and was joined by two labourers who would load his cart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was joined by another voice ; he realized it was his own . |
| 17 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 18 | The waiter was joined by another waiter , equally stoic ; their faces were grained by evening shadow . |
| 19 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 20 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The archimandrite was rebuked by Metropolitan Stratimirović for keeping ‘ that blasphemer amongst your priests ’ . |
| 23 | Theo 's visit was intended by both brothers to heal a rift which had developed between them . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 26 | In 1872 a statue to his memory was erected by public subscription in Albert Square , Dundee . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For each subject a stool form score was calculated by simple addition of their three gradings , giving a range from 3 ( consistently constipated ) to 18 ( consistently loose ) . |
| 29 | The best fit between these measurements for each patient was calculated by non-linear regression analysis . |
| 30 | The library was heated by warm air fanned through a grille . |