Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 3 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 4 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 5 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 6 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 7 | Once more Daisy was knocked out by the fecundity of everything , the blackthorn purple with sloes , plump hazel nuts already shredded by squirrels , elderberries shiny as caviar hanging like shower fittings from their crimson stems . |
| 8 | The eventual destruction of Jerusalem was brought about by the Romans to crush the rebellion of Bar Kokhba who was styled by the Akiba , the most famous rabbi of the time , as the Messiah . |
| 9 | Three times Cooke was pitched out by the pounding surf . |
| 10 | Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding . |
| 11 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 12 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 13 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 14 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 15 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 16 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 17 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 18 | A further change in the law since the case of Nash v. Inman was brought about by the Family Law Reform Act 1969 which reduced the age of majority to 18 so that only people under that age enjoy the privileged status of minor . |
| 19 | Instead , the evidence strongly suggested that the higher imprisonment rate in England and Wales was brought about by the courts ' decisions to commit a greater number of people to prison , both on remand and also under sentence . |
| 20 | Edberg was buoyed up by the energetic and determined play of Anders Jarryd which led to a win over Connell and Glen Michibata . |