Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 2 | Sales varied but were well down by the end of the 1980s , and the paper remained a rather marginal venture . |
| 3 | Sales of 's OMEGA pet food products have continued to rise dramatically during recent years and plans for additional production facilities were well underway by the spring of 1988 . |
| 4 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 5 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 6 | Certainly , some of the claims they advanced were extreme even by the standards of so punctilious an age . |
| 7 | The programme and strategy mapped out before the election began was followed — down to Tuesday 's photo opportunity in a Cornish seal sanctuary — and was undiverted even by the War of Jennifer 's Ear . |
| 8 | It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel . |
| 9 | He was relieved somewhat by the fact that the horse did not balk at approaching the house . |
| 10 | It was relieved only by the arrival of Lancelot M. Henly as Secretary . |
| 11 | The legislation was flawed not by the requirement of sanctions , claimed Bush , but by the rigid manner in which they were to be imposed , which would " harm US economic interests and provoke friendly countries who are essential to our efforts to resist Iraqi aggression " . |
| 12 | It was three o'clock by the tower clock when I finally forced my numb fingers to dose the creaking covers of the Thesaurus Exorcismorum . |
| 13 | Mike was married twice by the time he was 20 : first to Jenny , and then to a large mortgage . |
| 14 | The analysis was complicated slightly by the fact that some of the top 20 firms had registered with more than one regulator . |
| 15 | Cranston was annoyed now by the arrogance of these people , thinking they could push him around whenever they wished . |
| 16 | Alexander walking to and from the water-tank in Crowe 's kitchen-garden , where balloon-like tadpoles , the size of half-crowns , dived and plashed their lips , unable to emerge and metamorphose into frogs , was amused sometimes by the counterpoint that wailed in his mind : Cabestan 's heart , Vincent 's ear , gassed soldiers ' throats , Brooke 's poppies , the troubadour 's lady like rose and gillyflower , Vincent 's irises , jealousy rage and fear , fear jealousy and rage , fear and indignation and pity . |
| 17 | Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt . |
| 18 | And remembering it now , with the child of that night growing towards a life of its own in my body , I was appalled again by the memory of a frustration worse than any self-denial , which ended at dawn with us lying apart from each other , both pretending to be asleep but both staring with dry wide-awake eyes into a bottomless pit of dismay . |
| 19 | All was silent down by the slipway . |
| 20 | A second congress of the All-Russian Peasants ' Union in November was satisfied neither by the Manifesto nor by the announcement that redemption dues were to be phased out altogether , and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907 . |
| 21 | He tried to lure Wallace back last year but was frightened off by a £1m price tag . |