Example sentences of "were [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors , whose walls were punctuated by closed doors . |
| 2 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 3 | Her brother Mark broke the news after they were traced by Canadian police . |
| 4 | Many of the community-based projects were developed by libertarian socialists , formed politically in the ‘ alternative ’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s , who rejected hierarchical and bureaucratic forms of organisation and who celebrated cultural rather than economic struggle . |
| 5 | In a pattern of development which took the form of a circus containing a garden at the centre , with roads radiating towards the cardinal points , the land was divided into small plots which were developed by various builders between 1843 and 1850 . |
| 6 | Patterns like the ‘ fix ’ and the ‘ fiddle ’ were developed by skilled workers , in piecework systems where considerable discretion was retained on the shopfloor . |
| 7 | Incidentally , it is a well-documented fact that perfumers ( who , of course , were pervaded by essential oils ) were often immune to the plague . |
| 8 | Net solute and water movements were calculated by standard formulae from the measured solute concentration and [ C ] -PEG counts in perfusate and effluent . |
| 9 | Studies of this phenomena in Canada and Great Britain during the 1970s and some in the United States found little difference among older and younger teenagers in complications of pregnancy and delivery , and some of the observed difference , as for example , in prenatal complications , were explained by socio-economic factors , not by biological ones . |
| 10 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |
| 11 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 12 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 13 | They wished to study mental illness and how its symptoms were recognized by medical specialists in the USA . |
| 14 | His last years were ravaged by financial crises . |
| 15 | In the north the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak , and schemes for inclosure of those portions of it which were suitable for arable or pasture , were completed by royal commissioners appointed in 1674 . |
| 16 | The belay stations were placed by local volunteers , with bolts provided from the BMC 's Access and Conservation Fund . |
| 17 | After about a week of this behaviour , and some digging , the pair spawned on the vertical side of this rock , laying several hundred thread-stalked brown eggs , which were guarded by both parents . |
| 18 | Election workers had been issued with flak jackets and the polling sites were guarded by Sikh soldiers in turbans of UN blue . |
| 19 | The lines of tethered animals were guarded by patrolling sentries , and even those long stretches were under the shelter of strips of fabric . |
| 20 | they were guarded by French troops , you see . |
| 21 | The public shows were given by live lecturers then , and to the eager young enthusiast — my opinion of myself , perhaps not shared by others — it was a glorious opportunity to be able to confront a real astronomer afterwards . |
| 22 | East European anxieties over oil supplies were compounded by Soviet announcements to its East European Comecon partners , also during July , that trade should be conducted after Jan. 1 , 1990 , in hard currency rather than in the transferable rouble ( the non-convertible COMECON accounting unit ) . |
| 23 | The government 's difficulties were compounded by separate developments relating to its pledge to Islamicize the economy . |
| 24 | The government 's political difficulties were compounded by growing differences with President Khan , who openly criticized its handling of the crisis . |
| 25 | Mr Clinton 's problems were compounded by fresh questions about his Vietnam War draft status , and controversy over remarks by his outspoken wife , Hillary . |
| 26 | Once again relations were eased by personal contacts . |
| 27 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
| 28 | After his death , his family were plagued by POLTERGEIST-like pranks — hair and clothing were tugged at , doors slammed and china smashed . |
| 29 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 30 | They were mobbed by 150 children from three schools as a clash between a handful of pupils turned into a near riot . |