Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , at the adjourned hearing before Theobalds J. on 3 October a nolle prosequi was duly entered by direction of the D.P.P. |
| 2 | The Foundation Stone was duly laid by Alderman W.C. Knight , Mayor of Stockport and Old Stopfordian , after the Founder 's Day service on 20th March 1969 . |
| 3 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 4 | The musical sensibility of Stravinsky , Milhaud , Kurt Weill , and Hindemith was overwhelmingly influenced by jazz . |
| 5 | An attempt by black students to enter the all-white Central High School in Little Rock was forcibly prevented by state troopers under orders from Governor Orval Faubus . |
| 6 | William , though himself without a helmet , fought like a lion to avenge his uncle 's death but was eventually overborne by weight of numbers as well as by another sword thrust from behind — and carried off into captivity . |
| 7 | Jacob was eventually born by emergency Caesarian section at 8.54pm after an unsuccessful attempt to deliver by forceps . |
| 8 | Trapped by drought , he was eventually bested by Mot , who ripped the weakened god to pieces with a sharp knife and scattered pieces of his body ‘ with a winnowing fan ’ before scorching and grinding the remains to a powder . |
| 9 | The raid was eventually followed by prosecution and , the following January , by court appearances for Dave Hall , Graham Keen , and Peter Stansill . |
| 10 | Even Clark 's contribution was eventually overshadowed by striker David Kelly , whose hat-trick kept Newcastle on course for the Premier League . |
| 11 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 12 | Clark 's Lotus team-mate Graham Hill ( GB ) pulled our of the race which was eventually won by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise . |
| 13 | Progress towards political reform under Nguyen Van Linh ( then secretary-general of the CPV ) " s programme of renovation ( doi moi ) was effectively halted by apprehension within the higher echelons of the CPV over the momentous events taking place in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during 1989-91 . |
| 14 | How much of it was fundamentally affected by editing and/or translation ? |
| 15 | Although the parish register was badly damaged by fire , there still exists the Bishop 's transcript of that register in which Leapor 's baptism is recorded on 16 March 1721 ( the apparent discrepancy is accounted for by the change from old to new style calendars in 1752 ) . |
| 16 | In 1940 , the school was badly damaged by fire — not by enemy action , but ( it seems ) by the carelessness of fire-watchers installed at night to forestall such action . |
| 17 | In 1933 , Smith 's boxworks was badly damaged by fire and large-scale production was never resumed . |
| 18 | Bishop Ralph de Luffa began a complete rebuilding in 1091 , but it was badly damaged by fire in 1114 . |
| 19 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 20 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 21 | In the latest blaze the lavatory area was badly damaged by fire and heat and the rest of the ground floor badly smoke-damaged . |
| 22 | An empty house in Coxon Hill , Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , was badly damaged by fire last night . |
| 23 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 24 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the hot engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 25 | Pakistan was badly hit by revenue losses resulting from the Gulf crisis and by the suspension in October of US economic aid [ see below ; p. 37764 ] . |
| 26 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 27 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 28 | In the Japanese textile industry , long-standing employers ' organisations were equally active in regulating employer competition for labour and in fixing labour standards — even at a time when the supply side of the market was little affected by trade unions ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 29 | This was widely interpreted by opposition parties as indicating a switch to economic conservatism . |
| 30 | The bath was widely rimmed by mahogany , its noble proportions rightly left naked , to descend with dignity into brass claw feet of a proper size . |