Example sentences of "was [vb pp] by a further " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 2 | The referendum had been called by a resolution of the Lithuanian Supreme Council on Jan. 16 ( the day on which the USSR Supreme Soviet decided the scheduling of the all-union referendum ) , and was clarified by a further resolution on Jan. 18 . |
| 3 | The DNA was reamplified by a further 25 cycles and the product checked by Southern blotting . |
| 4 | The £1033 he received in sponsorship for the jump was supplemented by a further £1000 from the Forties field charity committee . |
| 5 | This was matched by a further ambivalence in the relationship between the government and the livestock owners , supposed to be the ultimate beneficiaries of the project . |
| 6 | The thing 's bellowing was drowned by a further thunder crack as Rohmer yelled … |
| 7 | A new one had been built in 1708 and this was replaced by a further wooden bridge in 1750 , which was , in turn , replaced in 1764 . |
| 8 | ( The delaying power over nonmoney bills was reduced by a further session under the terms of the 1949 Parliament Act , itself passed under the provisions of the 1911 Act . ) |
| 9 | The announcement was accompanied by a further small devaluation against the dollar , by 2.09 per cent to $1.00=814 meticais . |
| 10 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 11 | There was another accident on Dec. 29 in which two more miners were killed , and this was followed by a further 24-hour strike on Jan. 2 , 1990 . |
| 12 | This was increased by a further NZ$3.049bn for non-cash costs , mostly unrealised losses on forex liabilities and depreciation ; and reduced by NZ$0.428bn in respect of net capital expenditures . |
| 13 | The capital accounts were dominated by the loan to the government , which was increased by a further £1m. in the 1740s , and it was the decline in interest paid on the government bonds rather than a fall in trading profits that led to declining dividends . |
| 14 | This rather meagre figure was increased by a further £50,000 one month later , when Virgin negotiated the rights to release the Pistols in all other world territories , excluding America , France and Japan . |
| 15 | Marglin argues that the organisation of work within factories was influenced by a further set of social factors — the need for the factory owners to maintain a monopoly over the knowledge needed to run the enterprise . |
| 16 | In 1932–3 it was extended by a further 80m and has been a popular promenade for tourists and Madeirans ever since , as well as a good place from which to observe the activity in the harbour and marina . |
| 17 | A communiqué issued by the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) , whose mandate was extended by a further six months on Jan. 31 , 1990 , protested at the alleged killing of two UNIFIL soldiers by the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army on Feb. 20 . |
| 18 | This was confirmed by a further Soviet proposal in May 1987 . |
| 19 | This lending ceiling was reinforced by a further statement by the Bank in November 1968 which gave the banks four months ' notice to reduce their lending to 98 per cent of the mid November 1967 level . |
| 20 | Suchard responded with an offer of £2.32 billion , which was countered by a further bid from Nestlé , valuing Rowntree at £2.55 billion . |
| 21 | There was also a claim for medical treatment and therapy in the sum of eighty three thousand three hundred and seventy nine pounds and twenty six pence which was paid by a further interim payment . |
| 22 | On Nov. 1 the leu was devalued by a further 60 per cent and fixed at US$1.00=35 lei , a move designed to pave the way for a partial convertibility of the Romanian currency which the government planned to introduce in January 1991 . |