Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 31 | Partners have already er had that training er during the er during the summer months er it was carried out by er an outside consultant and most of us subjected ourselves to the se selling course , I think most of us derived some benefit from it . |
| 32 | It was carried out by Coun Anthony Abraham , whose Richmondshire District Council ward includes the hospital . |
| 33 | It was carried out by BBC Radio 4 's Sunday programme to gauge public opinion before the crucial Church of England General Synod vote on Wednesday . |
| 34 | She had never been less communicative either in speech or in manner and it was remarked on by Mrs Browning with curiosity . |
| 35 | The drawing was identified as a Rembrandt by Christie 's Old Master drawings expert , Hugo Chapman , when it was brought in by the owner for valuation . |
| 36 | Perhaps it was brought in by a refugee from the persecution of the Catholic church about that time , when thousands of British communicants , including the bishops of York and Carlisle , perished . |
| 37 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 38 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 39 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 40 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 41 | It was , more accurately , a wood-built open-air refreshment centre and it was taken over by Europe 's supporters . |
| 42 | Theakston was manager of T&R Theakston — most famed among beer drinkers for its Old Peculier ale — before it was taken over by Scottish & Newcastle four years ago . |
| 43 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 44 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 45 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 46 | Following a period of use for warehousing , the mill stood empty for two years , until it was taken over by Mike Cavanagh in 1976 . |
| 47 | Bakers have of course extended to the Brown Street corner , but in the twenties had Mr. Denham , the baker as neighbour , a beautifully clean shop which traded until the late 1940s when it was taken over by W. Shipsey and Sons . |
| 48 | However , the left-half position was never satisfactorily filled after Archie 's departure , until it was taken over by Johnny McNichol some five or six years later . |
| 49 | Dovercourt had just one season as a holiday camp before it was taken over by the RCM as short-term accommodation for refugee children . |
| 50 | Until 1980 , this was the British Country Club ; then it was taken over by the Regional Government and reverted to its original name , being opened as a Public park . |
| 51 | Nevertheless , financial problems continued to plague the paper , and in 1961 it was taken over by East African Newspapers Ltd , the Nairobi publishers of the Daily Nation , who wanted to get into the Tanzanian market . |
| 52 | Michael was signed to CBS Records before it was taken over by Sony . |
| 53 | NCR Corp first began talking about its Top-End transaction processing monitor at the beginning of 1991 ( UX No 317 ) , just before it was taken over by AT&T . |
| 54 | In 1977 , however , it was taken over by the institut , and when their funds were depleted a mainly American foundation came to the rescue . |
| 55 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 56 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
| 57 | It was taken over by the British Transport Commission ( later to become British Rail ) in 1949 and much of the magnificent original decoration and marble was either taken away , covered up or painted over . |
| 58 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |
| 59 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 60 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |