Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 2 | The rain fell in tiny , miserable droplets that were blown about by the wind . |
| 3 | he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours . |
| 4 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 5 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 6 | The next few issues of Amnesty will cover the changes that were voted in by the ICM in detail , however , a summary of the major changes is useful : |
| 7 | This may be guided by the subsequent text pages which describe the intervention that was carried out by the Smiths . |
| 8 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 9 | The Socialist Government might have survived the crisis had it not been for the internal rift within the Labour Party that was brought about by the Cabinet 's decision to impose charges for medical prescriptions to curb excessive waste in the newly established National Health Service . |
| 10 | In this article , Veronica Hanson describes a scheme that was set up by the Welsh Pre-school Playgroups Association ( PPA ) to encourage the integration into local playgroups of children who experience difficulties in learning . |
| 11 | And then , finally , out of sight but only fifty or sixty yards from this room in the field next the garden , there lies buried the main street of the old village that was wiped out by the Black Death . |
| 12 | He knew that Wells had gone to the police and , in a public-spirited way , had volunteered a written statement that was taken down by the acting Sergeant , yet a statement which the police had not presented . |
| 13 | And not to that kind of limp posture that was summed up by the princ principal of the theological college er with the word inertia . |
| 14 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 15 | They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus . |
| 16 | The Germans broke through the British line , but seemed unable , once again , to follow up their success , and were driven back by the last Allied reserves . |
| 17 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 18 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 19 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 20 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 21 | He rang the bell , and was asked in by the maid — only to be told that the family were at dinner . |
| 22 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 23 | While so engaged an Italian transport aircraft , variously identified as a Caproni Ca310 or a Savoia S.81 , was intercepted and was shot down by the three Beaufighter pilots , Sqn.Ldr . |
| 24 | Payton , failed to return and was shot down by the A.A. defences at Hassani . |
| 25 | ‘ The aircraft turned over the breakwater and was followed out by the same intense gunfire . |
| 26 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 27 | She overshot the glove and was pulled back by the creance . |
| 28 | I visited the workshops in 1947 and was shown round by the engineer , a Mr Rostron , who was the son of Captain Arthur Rostron , master of the liner Carpathia , who rescued the survivors from the Titanic . |
| 29 | Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it . |
| 30 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |