Example sentences of "[det] were [adv] [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One recent study of teenage mothers showed that two-thirds of these were already sexually experienced by the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 3 | Acquisition of the Macedonian mines in the mid-second century B.C. brought in further notable gold resources and these were still further enlarged by Trajan 's conquest of Dacia early in the second century A.D. |
| 4 | Further peaceful actions followed at other bases , and these were more directly sponsored by CND . |
| 5 | Although ( until its last days ) all votes in both houses of the Supreme Soviet were unanimously in favour of government proposals , both specific and general policy criticisms were made in speeches and it seems certain that these were sometimes seriously considered by party and government in formulating future policy . |