Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the root of our sense of smell and taste , fear and desire , and it still remembers the dragons we ate and were eaten by . |
| 2 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 3 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 4 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 5 | Lydia and Betty were the first to arrive and were met by two of the farm dogs — one charming , one not , like pairs of detective inspectors . |
| 6 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 7 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 8 | Four biopsy specimens of the antrum and four of the gastric body were taken and were analysed by urease test , microscopy of a methyleblue stained mucosal smear , specific culture , and histology after modified Giemsa staining as described elsewhere . |
| 9 | Since the new recruits in the hive had not been tampered with and were stimulated by the light , they misinterpreted the dance of the returning foragers . |
| 10 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 11 | They gave the ball away far too much in a bad spell after half-time and were destroyed by John Hendrie 's 15-minute hat-trick . |
| 12 | Deaths occurring before 1988 were collected retrospectively and were validated by reports from the Federal Centre for AIDS . |
| 13 | Quite a number confessed that they had never asked themselves that question and were fascinated by having to analyse their decision to farm . |
| 14 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 15 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 16 | Leadership calls for party unity in difficult political circumstances prevailed , however , and were reinforced by a common underlying belief in the congress that the Sandinistas continued to exercise political influence in a tacit pact with the government . |
| 17 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 18 | Vassals owed loyalty to their lords and were bound by an oath of allegiance which encouraged the acceptance of their status . |
| 19 | In the Bekaa , he records , ‘ birds sang among the reeds and were echoed by a distant chorus from farm workers marching out to potato fields with long hoes over their shoulders . |
| 20 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 21 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 22 | The Lancastrian army arrived at Stamford in February 1461 , on their march to St. Albans , and were led by Henry VI 's French consort , Queen Margaret . |
| 23 | Despite the heavy mist nearly 40 walkers assembled at St Hedda 's Church and were led by John Brown who had arranged and co-ordinated the walk . |
| 24 | If , therefore , a person can prove that the statements or criticisms complained of went beyond reasonable or forceful debate and were defamatory ( as for example , a torrent of defamatory invective ) , and were influenced by indirect or ulterior motives , he might well be justified in issuing a writ . |
| 25 | Instead , they were now dynamic quantities that influenced and were influenced by events that took place in them . |
| 26 | All these records are twelve inches in diameter and were made by the Gramophone Company of Great Britain between 1920 and 1925 . |
| 27 | The longest pre-recorded cylinders regularly marketed bore the legend ‘ Smethurst 's System ’ , and were made by the Sterling company in London . |
| 28 | But such remarks were commonplace and were made by ardent church reformers as often as by anyone else . |
| 29 | The monkeys themselves turned out to be a highly evolved and accomplished band of thieves , and were treated by the Biranese as a neighbouring tribe . |
| 30 | The examples below fall into the latter category and were created by school librarians and teachers in the MISLIP project . |