Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral faculty needed to govern the sexual instinct , organizing it on ‘ broad , well-marked mental foundations ’ .30 Chastity , continence and self-control were the highest forms of sexual development because they were regulated by reason and a knowledge of the providential laws of human nature . |
| 2 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 3 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 4 | But they were dethroned by the japanese . |
| 5 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The Tadjik Communist Party central committee on March 3 expelled from the party Buri Karimov and Nur Tabarov , and on March 19 they were dismissed by the Tadjik Supreme Soviet as , respectively , a Deputy Chairman of the Tadjik Council of Ministers and Tadjik Minister of Culture , for having " compromised themselves " during nationalist unrest in the Tadjik capital , Dushanbe , in mid-February . |
| 7 | In sum , I do not think that the practical difficulties arising from a limited relaxation of the rule are sufficient to outweigh the basic need for the courts to give effect to the words enacted by Parliament in the sense that they were intended by Parliament to bear . |
| 8 | They were exploited by an economic system which was in 1880 increasingly characterized by capitalist organization , large-scale production for the market and specialization . |
| 9 | They were seated by one of the windows , and Paige was glad she had a head for heights . |
| 10 | They became so celebrated that they were disturbed by tourists . |
| 11 | Perhaps they were disturbed by alarming reports from France , where the noble philosophical aims of Liberty , Equality and Fraternity were beginning to be taken a little too far . |
| 12 | On the way they were disturbed by a lorry . |
| 13 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 14 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 15 | They were rejected by an outcry from within Britain and by the British Prime Minister . |
| 16 | Mr Major produced proposals which meet Denmark 's demands , but they were rejected by Germany , Belgium , Luxembourg and Greece . |
| 17 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 18 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 19 | As far as wages were concerned the development officers collected support workers ' timesheets each week , ensured that they were received by the wages office , and then distributed pay cheques ( or cash ) to their workers . |
| 20 | In early May they were received by the British Ambassador in Constantinople . |
| 21 | In January 1848 they were received by the shah , who was presented with copies of the Old and New Testaments and a translation of Sketch of the Evidence from Prophecy ( 1823 ) by Alexander Keith [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | They were received by the group of villagers they joined with no comment other than a whispered bonsoir . |
| 23 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 24 | The report followed a visit by an Amnesty delegation to Morocco on Feb. 13-14 , during which they were received by King Hassan and senior government officials . |
| 25 | In 1778 , for example , envoys from the Indian state of Mysore ( a potentially valuable ally of France against British power in India ) were conducted , when they were received by Louis XVI at Versailles , by a deliberately circuitous route through a very long series of rooms all of which were filled with stands and spectators in a demonstration of French power and greatness . |
| 26 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 27 | Leading through Chris Bart-Williams , they were foiled by Milford 's extraordinary ability to spot a handball without being able to identify the offender . |
| 28 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |
| 29 | Tell her they were sent by a friend who heard she was ill . |
| 30 | Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space . |