Example sentences of "was [verb] by [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most impressive demonstration of crofting opinion was given by the people of Uig when Lord Leverhulme announced that , because of government policy on land settlement , he was giving up his schemes in Lewis and concentrating his attention on Harris . |
| 3 | A concert was given by the staff to the inmates in the evening , and on the following day , an afternoon entertainment , during which sweets and tobacco were distributed , took place . |
| 4 | I was taught by a series of governesses . ’ |
| 5 | Although in the middle of the seventeenth century Muscovy was racked by a series of civil rebellions , peasant wars , religious turmoil and military mutiny , it was also during this period that the foundations for the political , social and economic structures of the tsarist imperial system were laid down . |
| 6 | Three years ago the serene Tokyo dormitory town of Hanna was shaken by a series of grisly crimes . |
| 7 | Tuscan 's annual party was arranged by the works committee and took place in the company canteen . |
| 8 | A list of the heads of households in Upper and Middle Fisher Row in 1772 shows that the area was inhabited by a series of closely-related families . |
| 9 | The firm they had nursed so devotedly was wrecked by a series of hammer blows : |
| 10 | He was carrying out a routine inquiry when his hand was severed by a Samurai sword . |
| 11 | Insurance group Sun Alliance was clouded by a £466m loss on the back of its exposure to mortgage indemnity insurance . |
| 12 | More than one was caught by a pair of squealing girls , who gleefully anointed them with kitchen grease and then fled with the warrior clanking in pursuit . |
| 13 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 14 | The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday . |
| 15 | The 60,000-tonne Aegean Sea was shattered by a series of explosions , setting the surrounding seas ablaze . |
| 16 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues . |
| 17 | Recently , it has emerged from studies of Upper Permian fluviolacustrine deposits throughout southern Africa that the geography was dominated by a series of giant lakes , perhaps interconnected within major fluvial frameworks . |
| 18 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 19 | So it was considered by the staff that the best solution would be to close the school for the afternoon . |
| 20 | It was owned by a series of French collectors until 1937 , then by three New York galleries until its purchase in 1947 by the late Mrs Charles S. Payson for $80,000 . |
| 21 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 22 | Henry II 's inheritance was won by a series of marriages which were politically successful but domestically disastrous . |
| 23 | She was attacked by a 12ft shark . |
| 24 | The fourth side of the square was occupied by a gas-works whose gasometer looked down on its neighbours . |
| 25 | This declaration was preceded by a series of analogous Royal Decrees issued just after the German invasion by the exiled Queen of the Netherlands and her government in May and June of 1940 ( see The Art Newspaper No. 13 , December 1991 , p.1 ) . |
| 26 | She was preceded by a cloud.of dogs . |
| 27 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 28 | This was done by a series of pas marchés each of which softly rose and fell through her feet from toe to heel . |
| 29 | On Jan. 13 a new Constitution , which had been under discussion since June 1991 [ see p. 38290 ] , was adopted by the People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) by 328 votes to one , with two abstentions , and was signed by President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat at a ceremony on Jan. 15 . |
| 30 | It was built by a series of cardinals as a hunting lodge . ’ |