Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 2 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 3 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 4 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , one odd coincidence must be noted : the ‘ banana-shaped object and characteristic illuminated sign ’ were apparently similarly described by an American journal , Saga . |
| 6 | The Celts , who were only superficially touched by Hellenistic civilization and represented the greatest terror for both Greeks and Romans , have simply been left outside the horizon of the traditional civilized Western world . |
| 7 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 8 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 9 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
| 10 | Those activities were so evidently a waste of spirit that Louisa had never understood how men were so easily lured by them . |
| 11 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 12 | Miss Picon and her husband were so profoundly affected by their experiences that for a long time after their return to New York they were unable to work . |
| 13 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 14 | Pan American 's privileged position , and the British government 's perceived failure to assist BOAC 's own position , were so strongly resented by the British company that all but one of its directors resigned in protest in March 1943 . |
| 15 | But who constituted " the people " , whose rights against monarchs were so ringingly asserted by the Calvinist and Huguenot writers ? |
| 16 | You were so much loved by us all , |
| 17 | It is , therefore , surprising that all the reports that plans were afoot to free Blake were so quickly denigrated by the police and MI5 . |
| 18 | While the General Strike might be viewed as a watershed by some historians who feel that the trade union position worsened considerably after 1926 , this was clearly not the case ; trade unions were less frequently attacked by employers after 1926 than before and the pace of wage reductions slowed considerably . |
| 19 | It is a sign of the slowly increasing political maturity of the age that serious negotiations were less frequently impeded by such quibbles than in the previous century . |
| 20 | ‘ Goodson ’ records were less badly afflicted by warping , but shrank instead . |
| 21 | Mail-order catalogues were less commonly used by Asian mothers than by white mothers in their study . |
| 22 | In industry the self-employed were generally slowly squeezed by the superior performance of big business , although 15 per cent of those engaged in manufacturing in Italy and Japan were still self-employed in 1970 . |
| 23 | These rallies , which were not infrequently marked by violent clashes with communists , reminded many people of Hitler 's Nuremberg rallies . |
| 24 | The Tuileries gardens were not infrequently decorated by electric lights and the palace itself , when there was a state ball , added electric lamps to the exterior illuminations . |
| 25 | It would also be surprising if the problems for which we have developed such services , be they , in our case , radio isotope testing , or information retrieval software , or computer systems for stock or other control , were not equally recognized by competitors and people in other fields of business . |
| 26 | A system of means tested assistance would be necessary as a ‘ safety-net ’ for the minority whose needs were not adequately covered by the scheme . |
| 27 | The ‘ Thorneycroft Proposals ’ were not well received by the Americans , but they were prepared to consider them . |
| 28 | Mark 's quarterly reports which highlighted the plant problems were not well received by the Chairman — according to his personal staff . |
| 29 | Such images , it may be surmised , were not well received by the nobility , who continued to commission portraits of conventionally austere appearance . |
| 30 | Yet even his findings were not well received by the financial community . |