Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child . |
| 2 | Both the practice and the tensions associated with it were meticulously described by the American anthropologists Arensberg and Kimball . |
| 3 | The Gloucestershire Whigs , for example , drew up an address against those who had " showed respect " to Sacheverell on his progress , and although it was eventually rejected by the grand jury , which was dominated by Tory JPs , a number of subscriptions were procured , especially by the local Nonconformist ministers amongst the " spinners and weavers and other mean people under their teaching " . |
| 4 | The Supreme Soviet could at best exercise only a marginal influence on policy , laws and appointments since it was closely controlled by the executive ( see chapter 15 ) . |
| 5 | And , of course , it was heavily hit by the Maxwell collapse . |
| 6 | The report was seen , therefore , as essentially practical though it was heavily influenced by the corporate planning theories advocated through the Institute of Local Government Studies and elsewhere . |
| 7 | It was soon hidden by a mushrooming of peach and golden clouds , and at last the sun showed its rim like the rind of an orange . |
| 8 | While rescue was the initial objective , it was soon surpassed by the desire to reclaim and re-educate . |
| 9 | It was soon followed by a pressing invitation from the new king to return to England , and Anselm set off without delay . |
| 10 | It was soon overtaken by the profounder and better known works of Bonaventure , Albertus Magnus , and Aquinas . |
| 11 | But by 1954 it was confidentially estimated by the Narok administration that at least 85 per cent of the Masai living on the Mau , Melili and the plains had taken the Mau Mau oath . |
| 12 | It was finally answered by a man who spoke with an artificial , lazy drawl and was suspicious when she asked for Urquhart by name . |
| 13 | It was finally breached by the sea flooding through valleys late in the Pleistocene . |
| 14 | They obtained an injunction which prevented compulsory observation from June 1981 to January 1984 , when it was finally overturned by the Court of Appeal . |
| 15 | It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods . |
| 16 | In my time though , it was largely checked by the monitors from Standard Seven — those near god-like boys who almost seemed like men . |
| 17 | Indeed , Bradford set up a home for Basque children up Manningham Lane , though it was largely financed by the Trades Council . |
| 18 | It was completely covered by a thick layer of ash , debris and roof slates , clearly the result of a disastrous fire . |
| 19 | It was far too big for one , but it was regularly cleaned by the leaseholders of the building , who maintained all services and looked out for security . |
| 20 | Here , almost untouched by time , because it was regularly subsidised by the state and enthusiastically supported by the Danish monarchy , was the original French style of dancing from the late 18th and early 19th centuries , long since lost in Paris . |
| 21 | That 's going to go er it was jointly organised by the County Council with Oxfam and the local Rotary Club at Thame — the money will go to local charities that Thame Rotary choose and also to particularly one project in Zimbabwe of Oxfam 's , a health project and a large part of that money will actually buy more bikes for the health workers to use to do their work . |
| 22 | In addition , it was generally felt by the European as opposed to American contingent at the Ribera conference in Naples in May , that ‘ The sense of smell ’ from Oslo was probably by Falcone ( although this is in the Prado show as by Ribera ) and the ‘ Portia ’ is by Luca Giordano ( excluded ) . |
| 23 | Even if we disregard the sporadic use of violence against the movement , and its infiltration by spies and agents provocateurs , it is clear that it was generally considered by the controlling bodies of universities and by party politicians as an illegitimate form of political action , even though its principal aim was to extend democratic participation in one of the most important institutions ( both economically and culturally ) of modern society , and in many cases it succeeded in enlivening academic studies , as well as improving methods of teaching and assessment . |
| 24 | It was well received by a fairly small house . |
| 25 | It was well received by the electorate and , with a cooperative Democratic Congress behind him , he could expect to implement a majority of the plan 's ideas . |
| 26 | It was even led by a genuine missionary : Reverend Ernest Frederick Waddy , one of a multi-collared brotherhood of gifted Sydney cricketers . |
| 27 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |
| 28 | It was also followed by an intensification of a process which had already begun , the adoption of European institutions and standards in other parts of the world . |
| 29 | It was also hit by a fall in European sales of fertilisers and competition from imports . |
| 30 | It was also rejected by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow as contravening the Soviet constitution . |