Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further demonstrations in the capital on March 28 , calling for the President 's resignation , were broken up by police using tear gas and stun grenades . |
| 2 | During 1989 demonstrations organized by the opposition group Democratic Union ( DU ) were broken up by police and arrests were made ; several DU members were imprisoned ( including Sergei Kuznetsov , a Sverdlovsk editor ) . |
| 3 | Several demonstrations across the country were broken up by police using tear gas during August . |
| 4 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 5 | Each day during filming , the supporting cast were picked up by limousines and taken to Shepperton Studios or Bovingdon RAF base in Hertfordshire . |
| 6 | The lights were dimmed for the next act , and a roll of drums announced two gorgeous showgirls , who were picked out by spotlights . |
| 7 | Checks were carried out by officers at monitoring stations in Whitley Bay and Seaton Burn . |
| 8 | That night and Monday morning , acts of sabotage were carried out by persons unknown on a shed , an excavator , tractor type machinery , a drilling rig and pipes . |
| 9 | Because the assaults were carried out by passengers — the Japanese word literally means ‘ honourable guests ’ — there was no question of resorting to legal action , the official explained . |
| 10 | The systematic way cars were broken into make police believe the thefts were carried out by thieves combing the streets looking for likely targets . |
| 11 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 12 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 13 | Her words were written down by recorders , whom she sometimes exhorted to write faster to keep pace with her . |
| 14 | Others attempted to storm a naval base , but were turned back by police . |
| 15 | But they were turned back by police who 'd found drugs at the scene . |
| 16 | You know , the freeholds were made over by deeds of gift by way of conveyance , and the — ’ |
| 17 | Byelorussian Premier Vyacheslav Kebich addressed the crowd and declared his government 's willingness to negotiate , but his words were drowned out by jeers and whistling . |
| 18 | The circumstances of these riots are described by Muncie ( 1984 ) and it is evident that a number of them were sparked off by reactions to incidents in which police actions were interpreted as racist or by other racist attacks . |
| 19 | While the underlying cause of the riots was multi-faceted deprivation some of the incidents were sparked off by police action . |
| 20 | Suggestions that the Kuwaitis know something no-one else does were played down by analysts , still desperately clinging to fading hopes of Lloyds Bank emerging with a rival offer next week . |
| 21 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 22 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 23 | Doubts about economic revival were borne out by figures published on Feb. 19 showing that for 1991 as a whole gross domestic product ( GDP ) had , on a provisional basis , fallen by about 2.5 per cent compared with 1990 . |
| 24 | Finnegan has been under investigation after detectives were called in by creditors of North of England Investments who lost money in the company which collapsed last year . |
| 25 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 26 | There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age : |
| 27 | I had masses of women coming in with ideas , and I would say that more than half of all of my commissions were brought in by women or contained women — writers , producers , directors . |
| 28 | They were brought out by volunteers and flown to Britain . |
| 29 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 30 | They were driven back by police , who arrested seven people . |