Example sentences of "were [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 2 | Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors , whose walls were punctuated by closed doors . |
| 3 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 4 | Her brother Mark broke the news after they were traced by Canadian police . |
| 5 | Many of the community-based projects were developed by libertarian socialists , formed politically in the ‘ alternative ’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s , who rejected hierarchical and bureaucratic forms of organisation and who celebrated cultural rather than economic struggle . |
| 6 | In a pattern of development which took the form of a circus containing a garden at the centre , with roads radiating towards the cardinal points , the land was divided into small plots which were developed by various builders between 1843 and 1850 . |
| 7 | Patterns like the ‘ fix ’ and the ‘ fiddle ’ were developed by skilled workers , in piecework systems where considerable discretion was retained on the shopfloor . |
| 8 | The trees were developed by Spanish engineer Antonio Ibanez , who claims to have interested an Italian multinational plus the French and more than one Arab government in his invention . |
| 9 | Incidentally , it is a well-documented fact that perfumers ( who , of course , were pervaded by essential oils ) were often immune to the plague . |
| 10 | Of course we were fascinated by revolting food , and liked inventing horror meals . |
| 11 | Recurrence rates were calculated by lifetable analysis ( LTA ) and compared by the log rank test . |
| 12 | Net solute and water movements were calculated by standard formulae from the measured solute concentration and [ C ] -PEG counts in perfusate and effluent . |
| 13 | Confidence intervals and p values for relative risks were calculated by conditional exact methods based on the binomial distribution with the computer package EGRET . |
| 14 | Age adjusted rates were calculated by direct standardisation with the total sample as the standard . |
| 15 | Age standardised incidence figures were calculated by direct standardisation , using as reference the world standard population . |
| 16 | Last week the trolley ladies involved in the ‘ ciggie sale ’ were reprimanded by embarrassed hospital officials . |
| 17 | These were emphasized by strategic tree planting or the placement of some other strong vertical element at the pinch point , thus reinforcing the narrowness of the road by creating a gateway . |
| 18 | Studies of this phenomena in Canada and Great Britain during the 1970s and some in the United States found little difference among older and younger teenagers in complications of pregnancy and delivery , and some of the observed difference , as for example , in prenatal complications , were explained by socio-economic factors , not by biological ones . |
| 19 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |
| 20 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 21 | But one important discovery was made at Puerto San Julián : these southern plains were inhabited by enormous nomadic shepherds ( though they herded not sheep but the little wild llamas known as guanacos , and they dressed in their skins ) . |
| 22 | They were not , however , the same : different continents were inhabited by different species adapted to the same sets of conditions . |
| 23 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 24 | They wished to study mental illness and how its symptoms were recognized by medical specialists in the USA . |
| 25 | Any suggestions for improvements in communications or any critical findings it may have contained were negated by institutional neglect and the ‘ silence ’ which Arendt ( 1958 ) argues is a primary tool of authority operated to effect ! |
| 26 | Relative contributions of reduced glomerular filtration rate , increased tubular reabsorption , and increased bone resorption to the total component of hypercalcaemia were calcualted by urinary calcium excretion estimations by the method of Nordin . |
| 27 | His last years were ravaged by financial crises . |
| 28 | In the north the disafforestment of the Forest of the Peak , and schemes for inclosure of those portions of it which were suitable for arable or pasture , were completed by royal commissioners appointed in 1674 . |
| 29 | GERMAN moves to shoot down 40,000 British jobs were halted by Prime Minister John Major yesterday . |
| 30 | The belay stations were placed by local volunteers , with bolts provided from the BMC 's Access and Conservation Fund . |