Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the prematurely balding Perthshire giant Alan Gilzean up-front and the craggy centre-half Ian Ure cementing their defence , Dundee annihilated the European Cup favourites , FC Cologne by 8–1 at home , then advanced to the semi-finals where they were eventually beaten by AC Milan . |
| 2 | Its original turf and timber buildings were eventually replaced by stone ones . |
| 3 | In the early years there were dancing partners but these were eventually replaced by demonstration couples . |
| 4 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 5 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 6 | In a clearly stratified society , the interests of this audience were predominantly defined by class . |
| 7 | In 1989 mines run by the state-owned Centromín mining concern ( a leading producer of zinc , lead , silver and copper ) were badly affected by sabotage by Sendero Luminoso , which caused the main mine , Morococha , to close throughout September . |
| 8 | The original suspended wooden ground floor was entirely removed after penetration of this structure for the installation of the new cross-walls and their foundations showed that some residual sections were badly affected by woodworm . |
| 9 | The bedrooms and landing of a house in Willington Road , Hardwick , Stockton , were badly damaged by fire yesterday evening and the ground floor suffered smoke and water damage . |
| 10 | D. desulfuricans grown on H 2 -sulphate medium were anaerobically collected by centrifugation and washed and re-suspended in 10ml of anaerobic bicarbonate buffer ( NaHCO 3 , 25mg ; cysteine-HCl , 2.5mg ; pH6.7 ) under N 2 -CO 2 ( 80:20 ) in sealed 25-ml serum bottles . |
| 11 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 12 | The centres were mostly run by Youth Allyah , in cooperation with the RCM , but there was one notable exception where the RCM took all of the responsibility — and all of the blame . |
| 13 | They were mostly funded by advertising , as were , initially , some state stations . |
| 14 | The hypothesis underlying this study was confirmed by finding a significant increase of childhood leukaemia in those rural areas of Scotland that were most affected by population ‘ mixing ’ associated with the North Sea oil industry . |
| 15 | According to The Daily Telegraph , that was the latest in a series of incidents in which children were inadvertently taken by car thieves . |
| 16 | They were constantly overwhelmed by racist , anti-radical attitudes and by the much greater appeal of the National Front . |
| 17 | They had a brief existence from 1649 until 1651 and were constantly attacked by government . |
| 18 | Early systems were highly constrained by technology . |
| 19 | Jane Smith 's murine cries were nicely illustrated by way of their electronic imitation . |
| 20 | Your Lordships were much assisted by counsel , who undertook an examination of the decision of the European Court of Justice on a reference by the Cwmbran Justices ( the Torfaen case ( Case 145/88 ) [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 21 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 22 | On the whole , feminists throughout the period agreed that women were better suited by nature to home-related tasks than were men . |
| 23 | The SPHINX system could prune large numbers of competing hypotheses without loss of accuracy because the competitors were sufficiently differentiated by score . |
| 24 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |
| 25 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 26 | NATO leaders were apparently taken by surprise when the Belgian Defence Minister , Guy Co me , announced on Jan. 25 , 1990 , that his government was studying plans for " the withdrawal of Belgian troops ( numbering 26,000 in total ) from West Germany " . |
| 27 | Nor have the Government responded to reports in Conservative newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times which were apparently augmented by evidence brought back from Iraq by United Nations inspectors , and the details of which were plastered all over those newspapers . |
| 28 | They were so fascinated by sex that they elevated its study from the status of a hobby to that of a science . |
| 29 | Perhaps one or two of them were so blinded by hatred of Lloyd George as to believe that the move would still show up his impotence . |
| 30 | The first may be thought of as the historical , the second the statistical method , and they were so named by Clerk Maxwell . |