Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was followed by slightly more peaceful methods . |
| 2 | When it first appeared , The Languages of Love was generally read as a satire of London literary and academic circles , but it was criticized by reviewers for not being satiric enough ( Cranston 1957:90 , Allen 1957:470 ) . |
| 3 | Was there any feeling amongst the men that er it was not only a low grade , but it was done by women if you if you like ? |
| 4 | St Bartholomew 's was among hospitals threatened by that report — but it was saved by Mrs Bottomley . |
| 5 | But it was hit by £33m of provision against three jobs the Channel Tunnel , Euro-Disney and the Storebaelt Bridge in Denmark . |
| 6 | In 1741–7 a new church was built but it was destroyed by earthquake in 1748 . |
| 7 | The agreement had been drawn up by Bernard Pons , the head of the RPR 's parliamentary group , but it was opposed by the former prime minister , Jacques Chirac , who is the founder and president of the RPR . |
| 8 | But it was opposed by Beijing since it required the Pol Pot group supported by China to lay down its arms . |
| 9 | But it was opposed by the Senate 's Environment Committee , industry , local authority refuse collection agencies and environmentalists . |
| 10 | It was never used by the Greeks , who divided the month into three parts of ten days each , but it was employed by the Jews ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 12 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 13 | The special relationship was born of a common heritage , but it was nurtured by American and British self-interest as well . |
| 14 | There was still pleasure in it somewhere , but it was choked by exasperating routine : waiting for the staff to go , getting undressed , making up the bed , before the fleeting moment of physical relief was attained . |
| 15 | One had a lantern , but it was shrouded by a cloth , a deep , hidden glow like subterranean fires far beneath the earth . |
| 16 | But it was argued by the trade unions that the exceptional circumstances of such pilot schemes permitted these " fantasies " : It is not probable that any attempt will be made in London or Edinburgh to reduce the women 's prices , so long as the movement has the sympathy of the benevolent public , but when left to compete by themselves with establishments conducted on commercial principles , the temptation to resort to this course might prove irresistible . |
| 17 | Primitive their house certainly was , with its earthen floor , mud walls , thatched roof and rude furniture ; but it was imbued by those two remarkable and lovable people with a warmth that few homes can ever have equalled . |
| 18 | But it was said by many doubters that British Airways could never be privatised . |
| 19 | Thomson with the corner he 's looking for Whitlow but it was headed by Rozario Thomson can try again . |
| 20 | The rise of the middle-class was not , on the whole , predicated on an aspiration to join the aristocracy , whose way of life , especially during the Regency , met with a good deal of disapprobation ; but it was determined by the resolute intention of the new men to distance themselves in every possible way from the working-class , out of which so many of them had raised themselves . |
| 21 | But it was heartened by a reference elsewhere in the legislation that GPs could exceed their drugs budgets if they had ‘ good cause ’ — a term which the BMA will interpret as patients ' needs . |
| 22 | Their spectacular growth was partly due to natural increase but it was fuelled by immigration from the countryside , particularly after the railways had ushered in an era of cheap mass travel . |
| 23 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 24 | The eligibility of the clergy for royal service was , of course , based on their long-established Latin literacy , but it was enhanced by the fact that , unlike noble and laymen , they had no dynasties to create or support ; they were paid with ecclesiastical benefices which could be held in plurality and served by hired deputies . |
| 25 | But it was beset by internal politics and narrow-mindedness . |
| 26 | The new youth movement of the 1880s shared many of these concerns in varying degrees , but it was motivated by several other ambitions which included keeping boys ‘ off the streets ’ , actively teaching the value of discipline , spreading the public school esprit de corps , and generally advocating the intangible virtues of ‘ character ’ . |
| 27 | This was partly because trolls generally are , in any case , but it was exacerbated by the fact that the sudden and instantaneous teleportation from its lair in the Rammerorck Mountains three thousand miles away and a thousand yards closer to the Rim had raised its internal temperature to a dangerous level , in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy . |
| 28 | Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman . |
| 29 | But it was confirmed by harder evidence , above all by the national survey conducted for the 1960 Royal Commission on the Police . |
| 30 | The ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ prevented him from confirming this appointment , but it was confirmed by William of Orange . |