Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 2 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 3 | Many more houses were erected mainly by the cement firms themselves . |
| 4 | Following the ejection of Richard Baxter along with 2,000 or so of his fellow pastors in 1662 , these Nonconforming ministers were persecuted ruthlessly by the authorities . |
| 5 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 6 | His services were recognized both by the shah , who presented him with a sword , and by the governor-general , Lord Hastings ( Francis Rawden , later first Marquis of Hastings , q.v . ) . |
| 7 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 8 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 9 | Remarkably , they were given back by the owner without payment . |
| 10 | To begin with plasmas were heated solely by the electric current flowing through the discharge , in a way similar to the ohmic heating of a wire element . |
| 11 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 12 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 13 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 14 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |
| 15 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 16 | The principal proposals of the Discussion Paper were received favourably by the majority of respondents : these proposals have therefore been retained in this FRED . |
| 17 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 18 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 19 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 20 | Although agreement was reached on establishing a UDF newspaper with a maximum 70,000-copy circulation , the talks were broken off by the UDF delegation on Jan. 18 after the BCP had refused to give written guarantees that the other promises would be fulfilled . |
| 21 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 22 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 23 | They were punished together by the priest in black in the crypt of the French Catholic church in Leicester Square , its sombreness relieved only by Jean Cocteau 's androgynous wall-paintings ; they were allowed no flowers and no music . |
| 24 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 25 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 26 | Charles the Cheesemonger 's major contribution to the history of his side of the family was to ensure that the name continued ; not in Frome , where Titfords were to disappear completely by the 1860s , but in London . |
| 27 | So , if South Korea were attacked today by the inferior ground forces of North Korea plus their Air Corps , I feel that South Korea would take a bloody nose . |
| 28 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 29 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 30 | In early February , in the city of Hamedan , a teenage couple talking in the street were picked up by the ’ revolutionary guards . ’ |