Example sentences of "was [verb] by the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was treated by the same experts who saved the life of TV star Leslie Crowther . |
| 2 | His position was filled by the former chair of the board , Detlev Rohwedder , who was succeeded as chair by Jens Odenwald , chairman of the West German Kaufhof retail stores chain . |
| 3 | The building was designed by the same Bradford firm which had built Sir Titus Salt 's church at Saltaire . |
| 4 | Newman was overwhelmed by the latter and wrote in The Sunday Times : ‘ Strictly speaking no art is translatable into another , not even poetry into music . |
| 5 | Truman , lacking the experience of foreign affairs , was surrounded by the same advisers as Roosevelt and was willing to continue the same policy . |
| 6 | But to say it was superseded by the latter in the seventeenth century is not entirely true . |
| 7 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 8 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |
| 9 | The workshop , which was sponsored by WACC , was organised by the All Africa Conference of Churches to examine the role of Christian communication in prophecy and witnessing from a woman 's perspective . |
| 10 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |
| 11 | And er whether this is true or not is immaterial , it 's part of the family er story that when Lloyd George was importuned by the this family up in . |
| 12 | The conference was chaired by the former Conservative MP Sir John Gorst and held at the Guildhall . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State will know that it was one of his predecessors , Lord Carrington , who was instructed by the former Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , not to have formal contacts with the PLO in 1980 . |
| 14 | He was sure that she was animated by the same desire . |
| 15 | After a 12 hour fast , detailed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed by the same two well trained endoscopists , using an Olympus GIF-XQ endoscope . |
| 16 | He also hinted that the transformation of reptiles into birds was produced by the same mechanism . |
| 17 | At the same time , the Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit was commissioned by the former Training Agency to identify competences in the areas of literacy and numeracy which would link to the BBC programmes . |
| 18 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 19 | Expenditure on education was affected by the same influence , although this accounts for only part of the large decline in its share from 1979 to 1983 . |
| 20 | At a plenum of the Georgian central committee the following day the party first secretary , Dzumber Patiashvili , resigned and was replaced by the former head of the Georgian KGB , Givi Gumbaridze ; the Georgian prime minister and head of state also tendered their resignations . |
| 21 | He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in . |
| 22 | The whole interior was marked by the same fastidiousness she was applying to this task ; every surface neat and polished . |
| 23 | The fraudulent conduct of the poll , and the subsequent annullment , was deplored by the former President , Mr Jimmy Carter . |
| 24 | The iron ore came from local surface working , the fuel was charcoal from the local woodlands , and the cooling water was provided by the many small but quite fast-flowing streams of the broken Wealden landscape . |
| 25 | Duty teams maintained a neat lawn surrounding the base but , beyond the perimeter , a lush pink jungle rose in fantastic profusion towards the flat glare of a pale , artificial ‘ sun ’ whose energy was provided by the same mysterious means as powered the Bridge and the Lift . |
| 26 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
| 27 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 28 | Our conduct in the international arena was governed by the same rules and limits as the Americans ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 496 ) . |
| 29 | Fifteen minutes later he was escorted by the same guard to a huge theatre-like room on the same floor . |
| 30 | The agreement had been drawn up by Bernard Pons , the head of the RPR 's parliamentary group , but it was opposed by the former prime minister , Jacques Chirac , who is the founder and president of the RPR . |