Example sentences of "[was/were] further/far [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churches were burned , priests and peasants put to death , and the Saxon nationalists ( if they may be called such ) were further strengthened by the fact that Charles did not muster a Frankish army until the summer of 779 . |
| 2 | Their problems were further exacerbated by the fact that many people took the Government at their word and simply stopped paying . |
| 3 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 4 | Party alignments were further affected by the fact that the executive powers of the Crown were not significantly limited by the Glorious Revolution , which meant that the monarch continued to play a crucial role in shaping the pattern of politics after 1689 . |
| 5 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 6 | Relations between the UK and Iraq were further strained by the seizure on March 28 of 40 restricted military devices at London 's Heathrow airport , en route for Baghdad . |
| 7 | Relations were further strained by the willingness of some ( mainly UDF , southern-based politicians ) to defend alliances with the FN , despite criticism from colleagues . |
| 8 | The accusations against Gregory were further supported by the dux Berulf and the comes Eunomius , who said that the bishop was intent on handing Tours over to Guntram . |
| 9 | Progress by states towards developing an acceptable SIP was further hampered by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 . |
| 10 | This process was further stimulated by the massive increase in state purchase of military and industrial equipment during the Second World War . |
| 11 | Nonetheless the resurgence of anti-American feeling within sections of the Labour party — feeling which had been broadly silenced by Soviet moves from 1948 — persisted , and it was further stimulated by the sharp increases in British defence spending and the damaging effects these had upon the government 's domestic programme . |
| 12 | The credibility of the final report was further damaged by the Note of Dissent attached by the barrister members and some independent members on the proposed extension of rights of audience . |
| 13 | The government 's public standing was further damaged by the resignation on June 14 of Pedro Vallenilla , the Development Minister and an independent politician , who stated that his decision was based on the COPEI withdrawals and the difficulty of implementing recommendations to alleviate the political crisis made by the Presidential Consultative Council . |
| 14 | This , as Professor Hoskins rightly points out , was further developed by the railways , but the canals began the spread of standard bricks , tiles and slates which changed the visual appearance of much of England . |
| 15 | In Norway the multi-party system was further fragmented by the 1972 referendum on Norway 's membership of the European Community . |
| 16 | Not only had the children suffered the loss of a parent but the family was further fragmented by the absence of one or more children as a direct or indirect result of the marital breakdown . |
| 17 | It inevitably became an issue , however , after the king 's death , and Gloucester 's vulnerability was further increased by the death of his kinsman George Neville on 4 May — something which immediately converted the duke 's title to the northern Neville lands into a life interest only . |
| 18 | It inevitably became an issue , however , after the king 's death , and Gloucester 's vulnerability was further increased by the death of his kinsman George Neville on 4 May — something which immediately converted the duke 's title to the northern Neville lands into a life interest only . |
| 19 | The LEAs ' power was further diminished by the 1988 Education Reform Act , in two major ways . |
| 20 | This point was further expressed by the deputy headmistress , who said : |
| 21 | Minton was further exacerbated by the groundswell of interest in abstract art forming at this time . |
| 22 | The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880 . |
| 23 | But the reputation of the School was further enhanced by the painting department where again Johnstone succeeded in appointing a changing roster of artists representative of a variety of styles . |
| 24 | This reasonableness was further reinforced by the absence of any hint of the person adopting ‘ the wrong attitude ’ . |
| 25 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 26 | The supply problem was further compounded by the fact that during the four years of war only 50,000 dwellings were added to the national stock . |
| 27 | Miller — were he to exist — would surely feel an equal burden if , on top of his own torment , he was further bludgeoned by the contempt and invective of his creator . |
| 28 | This was further demonstrated by the fact that , when I murmured some apologies that I must leave , he insisted on my staying for some tea . |
| 29 | The reliability of the developed approach was further confirmed by the fact that no protected bases were observed when an identical binding reaction was subjected to various DMS treatments in solution ( prior to electrophoresis ) , presumably due to the kinetic instability of the Jun-AP-1-binding site complex ( 7 ) which DNase I being a bulky molecule is unable to sense . |
| 30 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |