Example sentences of "were [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London . |
| 2 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Ramsey 's father and mother were nauseated by the jingoism . |
| 4 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 5 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 6 | Giant posters measuring 16ft by 8ft were erected by the army at the entrance to Ormeau Park in another desperate attempt to jog someone 's memory . |
| 7 | These were erected by the Company and run under the same conditions as Wolverton School . |
| 8 | The story of foreign geniuses at work in California was a strange and sad one ; great men were fascinated by the excitement and power of a city devoted to movies , whilst the studios were attracted by the notion of using these aliens to make profitable and prestigious films . |
| 9 | It will be apparent that we were fascinated by the phenomenon of crofting , as we presume most other newcomers to it must be . |
| 10 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 11 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 12 | It was once won by an archer who had a large family of young children who were fascinated by the spoon , which has a silver chain with a hook at the end in the form of a swan 's head and neck . |
| 13 | Gall bladder volumes , measured by real time ultrasonography ( Technicare , 3.5 MHz transducer ) , were calculated by the sum of cylinders method with a computerised system . |
| 14 | The attractions of wind power were emphasized by the appearance at the inquiry of Professor Donald Swift-Hook , who had actually run the CEGB 's own wind research programme from 1978 to 1986 . |
| 15 | When a Masai killed a European farmer in the Sanya corridor — from which the Masai had been evicted — in 1955 , it was the shame and distress of all the other Masai which were emphasized by the administration . |
| 16 | The Conservatives likewise were aroused by the prospect of a weakening of Labour 's hold on Scotland and Wales , as the Conservatives had had a constant majority at every post-1945 general election in England ; it was the Celtic fringe that tilted the balance in favour of Labour . |
| 17 | His meetings were arranged by the World Council of Churches which is one of the few non-government organisations represented in the country . |
| 18 | The reasons for the delay were explained by the Minister for Science and Technology : |
| 19 | The only really ‘ high ’ prices in the sale were realised by the collection of memorabilia relating to Avro designer Roy Chadwick . |
| 20 | Immunoblotting affinity-purified DRTF1/E2F with anti-peptide 15 revealed two polypeptides with apparent M r s 46K and 55K ( Fig. 2 a , track 2 ) that were recognized by the antiserum ( Fig. 2 a ; compare tracks 5 and 6 ) . |
| 21 | The staves were assembled into a preshaped base by a " hooper " and then the final stages of assembly were completed by the cooper . |
| 22 | Although all the steps ( a ) to ( d ) were completed by the balance sheet date , some would argue that as the redundancy costs are to be incurred in the next year , they are not liabilities that should be recognised in the current year 's accounts . |
| 23 | They were heavily defeated ; Bulgarian soldiers were about to enter Belgrade when they were halted by the threat of Austrian intervention . |
| 24 | The preparations were halted by the news that the arrested students had been released . |
| 25 | The opening pitches of Spartan yielded to a steady , workmanlike approach , but doubts began to creep in as we were delayed by the American and his partner , who spent as much time conversing as climbing . |
| 26 | Although the bid was cleared by both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and by the European Commission , GEC and Siemens were delayed by the need for detailed negotiating with the Ministry of Defence on various aspects . |
| 27 | Born in 1924 , his ambitions were delayed by the outbreak of the second world war in which he served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 , first in Coastal Forces and then on minesweepers , rising to the rank of lieutenant before being demobilised three years later . |
| 28 | This was asset-stripping on a grand scale , only the assets were stripped by the company 's managing director and then thrown away . |
| 29 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 30 | They were reinstated by the deputy chief constable on the grounds that the investigation by the Police Complaints Authority had produced no evidence that they had removed anything from the Crown Court file . |