Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 2 | His successors were weighed down by the sense of duty . |
| 3 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 4 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 5 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 6 | Even Emil Fischer , in propounding the idea that proteins were built up by a standard linkage ( -CO-NH- ) between different amino acids , apparently did not envisage molecules containing more than 30 or so such units , corresponding to no more than 300 atoms which is much too small . |
| 7 | His demands were taken up by a group of academics and intellectuals who also accused Milosevic of seeking to provoke intercommunal strife and to destabilize the Yugoslav federation . |
| 8 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 9 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 10 | In 1988 , however , the MSC was disbanded as a separate , semi-autonomous organisation , and its functions were taken over by a new section set up within the Department of Employment , originally called the Training Agency but later renamed the Training , Enterprise and Education Division . |
| 11 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 12 | While the Supreme Soviet was not sitting , its functions were carried out by the Praesidium , a committee of Supreme Soviet officials and other members . |
| 13 | Although their American peers used mainly American guitars , these were expensive if available at all in Europe , which meant that home-grown lookalikes were snapped up by the hard-up young musos eager to perform — especially if they were reasonably playable in their own right . |
| 14 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 15 | Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones , and their errors were written up by the historian . |
| 16 | Many possible direct effects were ruled out by the test program and Mayo eventually concluded that a complex emotional chain had been behind the productivity changes . |
| 17 | Polly 's duties were taken over by a Groses ‘ bus of Northampton . |
| 18 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 19 | Efforts to enter the building and find Meredith and Amelia Putt also proved futile and the would-be rescuers were driven out by the heat and flames . |
| 20 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 21 | In the early 1970s research into substitute care revealed lack of attention to planning and continuity , resulting in ‘ children who wait ’ ( Rowe and Lambert , 1973 ) ; these criticisms were taken up by a number of organizations . |
| 22 | Northampton 's return to challenging for top honours was brought about by a complete overhaul of the club 's structure both on and off the field . |
| 23 | My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission . |
| 24 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 25 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 26 | The first three exceptions were spelled out by a six judge Court of Appeal in Young v. |
| 27 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 28 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 29 | Strikes and protests were called off by the nationalists pending the outcome of the discussions , which ended on Jan. 12 in an apparent climb-down by the nationalists , all participants in the " public council " endorsing a draft declaration which upheld the Dec. 29 decisions on minority rights . |
| 30 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |