Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] was [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That political crisis both drove and was driven by the economic crisis : but again and again it emerged that the key lay in politics . |
| 2 | Pain stabbed in their ears , plaster dust swirled and was swallowed by the gusting storm winds and blasting rain . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you get very far with Wickham last night , Rain ? ’ he asked and was confounded by the stunned look she gave him . |
| 4 | After a while their nervousness vanished and was replaced by the glory and wonder of each other . |
| 5 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 6 | In January 1863 , Old Looking Glass died and was succeeded by a son of the same name , hanging his father 's trade mirror , and his burdens , about his own neck . |
| 7 | The dramatic and mythological language disappeared and was replaced by a doctrine more fitted to legalism or the language of the ledger : salvation came to be seen as a question of balancing the books , or paying debts to the debtor . |
| 8 | In the course of the depressed 1930s Gramola disappeared and was replaced by the distinguished HMV label in distinctive dark blue . |
| 9 | Such lack of fundamental change is perhaps understandable because , since the eighteenth century , the rate of economic growth in Britain has been slow , a rate which influenced and was influenced by the nature of the institutional and social system . |
| 10 | Thus , when Richard Baxter was offered the position of schoolmaster at Dudley , he accepted and was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester on Advent Sunday 1638 . |