Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seven works of art or architecture which were each held by the ancient world to be supreme in their own way : 1 . |
| 2 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 3 | The law of vortical movement in primordial matter is one of the oldest conceptions of Greek-philosophers , whose great minds were all nourished by the arcane Vedic wisdom and taken up 2000 years later by Copernicus , Galileo , Descartes and Swedenborg . |
| 4 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm reports in The Guardian earlier this year that the 12 local authorities with the worst record in English , mathematics and modern language results were all controlled by the Liberal Democrats or the Labour party ? |
| 5 | They were all playing by the same rules . |
| 6 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 7 | The soil conservation efforts ( in Lesotho ) were no more successful in increasing agricultural output than were those installed by the British during the pre-independence period . |
| 8 | The Falkland Isles were first occupied by the British in March 1765 , but a Spanish expedition from Buenos Aires , in 1770 , initially expelled the British , but Spain surrendered the Isles back to Britain , in January 1771 , after the threat of war . |
| 9 | He and Maclean were next glimpsed by the Western Press in the National Hotel , Moscow , in 1956 . |