Example sentences of "[was/were] brought [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent . |
| 2 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 3 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 4 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 5 | ( Montgomery 1983 : 78 ) Since far more attacks were brought about by the government 's death squads than the left , Romero 's vast audience soon became aware of what was happening in their country . |
| 6 | Four issues of AR-WACC Newsletter were brought out by the AR-WACC Secretariat last year . |
| 7 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 8 | Rob Allen , 41 , is thought to have suffered a heart attack which his wife believes was brought on by the strain of their daughter 's condition . |
| 9 | But mother-of-two Mrs Spence said her sick leave was brought on by the stress of overwork . |
| 10 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 11 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 12 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 13 | One woman , helped to ‘ relieve herself , was brought up by a mother who continually told her that , ‘ Big girls do n't cry ’ . |
| 14 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 17 | Their baby daughter was brought up by an aunt , a Mrs Reed of Gateshead . |
| 18 | His father died prematurely and Knott was brought up by an aunt and uncle while attending Arbroath High School ( 1864–71 ) . |
| 19 | Cremonese dominated the first half and were unlucky not to get a penalty when winger Massika Lombardini was brought down by a joint tackle from Osman and Gerry Harrison . |
| 20 | Official UN reports supported Italian government findings that the plane was brought down by a missile , but responsibility could not be attributed . |
| 21 | Hendrie was brought down by a clumsy Kevin Jobling challenge just inside the area . |
| 22 | The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested . |
| 23 | The one on Parson 's Green was brought down by the ARP boys and packed tidily away , and then we were granted an AA gun , all to ourselves . |
| 24 | In the thirty fifth minute , City got their second , when Williams going for goal , was brought down by the keeper . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was brought in by a refugee from the persecution of the Catholic church about that time , when thousands of British communicants , including the bishops of York and Carlisle , perished . |
| 26 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 27 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 28 | The drawing was identified as a Rembrandt by Christie 's Old Master drawings expert , Hugo Chapman , when it was brought in by the owner for valuation . |
| 29 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 30 | In 1572 he was brought in by the musician , Alfonso Ferrabosco [ q.v. ] , to design the tournament staged to greet the French embassy in June of that year . |