Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speech , billed as the most important address ever made by a Hong Kong governor , was mostly well received by community leaders , with criticisms focusing on its skimpy attention to important political issues . |
| 2 | After several hours of futile combat , in which the Norman minstrel Taillefer perished in a glorious suicide ride and the knights were unable to smash the fyrd 's defensive rings , the battle turned , the Saxon ranks broke line under their own enthusiasm rather than the Norman ruse always reported , and Harold was eventually mortally wounded by the repeated rain of arrows which , lacking sufficient archers , the English were unable to return . |
| 3 | The other had continued pain that was eventually successfully managed by a laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 4 | Quite apart from the fact that Hopper 's movie was eventually virtually sabotaged by the studio ( or himself , depending on which side you were on ) , director Bob Rafelson had a good script which would without question consolidate Nicholson as the finest exponent of counter-culture appeal available anywhere in America in that year . |
| 5 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 6 | This vision was most dramatically evoked by John Bailey at a conference of the English Association in 1917 : |
| 7 | This view was most effectively expressed by writers such as G.H. Mead ( 1934 ) and L.S. Vygotsky ( trans. 1962 , 1978 ) over 50 years ago . |
| 8 | The contradictory nature of the party leadership 's stance on cultural matters between 1928 and 1934 was most strikingly illustrated by Barbusse 's editorial control of the journal Monde . |
| 9 | The idea that the appearance of amour courtois in late eleventh-century Aquitaine was one of the great moments in the history of mankind was most powerfully expressed by C. S. Lewis in The Allegory of Love . |
| 10 | Romero 's murder , into which there has still been no official investigation , was most probably instigated by Roberto D'Aubuisson , leader of the ARENA Party . |
| 11 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 12 | This realpolitik was most vividly demonstrated by the Ford purchase , an act an automotive Harold Macmillan might have condemned as selling the family silver . |
| 13 | The project was most ably supervised by the Schools Council Curriculum Officer , Maurice Plaskow . |
| 14 | But the concept of the fiduciary duty said to be owed by the GLC to its rate payers was most widely emphasized by their Lordships . |
| 15 | This vital factor was most clearly recognised by policy-makers in the mid-1980s . |
| 16 | The decay of the Roman empire was most clearly revealed by the decline of towns and increasing ruralization . |
| 17 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 18 | In the immediate aftermath of the revolution this point of view was most clearly articulated by Russian anarchist writers . |
| 19 | This was most clearly shown by Paul Dirac 's formulation of the general principles of quantum theory , of which we shall give some account in the following chapter . |
| 20 | The ‘ right of silence ’ and the concomitant immunity from making incriminating disclosures was most helpfully discussed by Neill L.J . |
| 21 | It was the more sophisticated who developed a consciousness of human dignity which was most deeply offended by the crudity and brutality of the Russian factory order . |
| 22 | The disintegration of an older order , at once exhilarating and disturbing , was most famously expressed by the poet John Donne . |
| 23 | The argument against having a special regime of rules to regulate the activities of government which are not peculiarly governmental was most famously put by the eminent Victorian jurist , A. V. Dicey . |
| 24 | This was most graphically illustrated by what has become known as the Cleveland Controversy , where there was a very rapid increase in referrals of cases of suspected child abuse in the summer of 1987 . |
| 25 | The comparison between the canals and railways was most graphically drawn by Mr W.F. Martin of the Mountsorrel Granite Company , one of the companies that could conceivably have benefited much from an improved canal , when giving evidence to the Royal Commission of 1906 . |
| 26 | Adam and Mrs Macmillan , and Mr and Mrs Michael Rapinet were among others enjoying this excellent dance , which , Lord Craigmyle said , was ‘ Fun for everyone and funds for pilgrims ’ ! the Slaughter House Seven played during dinner ; and after the auction , which was most efficiently conducted by the Chairman of the OMV Mr Stephen Macklow-Smith , Mr Dick Ritchie of Continental Airlines , who had donated the top prize which was a trip for two to Houston , Texas for a week , said a few words . |
| 27 | Thee were plenty of amusements for the young guests , including a palmist who proved very popular ; also a tombola , which was most efficiently run by Mr and Mrs John Pearce , helped by four of their five children . |
| 28 | This contraction was most severely felt by the few employees in the smaller workshops . |
| 29 | Close comparison of BBC and ITN footage shows that the BBC film has in shot the man who was most severely beaten by the police , but that the film has been cut at precisely the point when the policeman begins to set about him with his truncheon . |
| 30 | To do this we need to consider another element in the picture of autonomy which was so meticulously side-stepped by Holt . |