Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 2 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 3 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 4 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 5 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 6 | The apostles and the communities of the faithful were driven by the Spirit , faith and the knowledge of the Risen Lord . |
| 7 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 8 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 9 | Wilson claimed that at least 30 were promoted by the Shipping Federation alone . |
| 10 | Some were dragged by a foot still caught in the stirrup , round in a circle in the turf . |
| 11 | Q Our Piranhas have recently bred and we have a few fry left ( some were eaten by a Plec , which was in turn eaten by the Piranhas ) . |
| 12 | Although the banking sector continued to be the largest purchaser of these Treasury bills , some were purchased by the M4 private sector ( i.e. the UK private sector excluding banks and building societies ) ( see Table 6.4 ) . |
| 13 | All the spectacular demonstrations of the unemployed were organized by the NUWM , including the Hunger Marches of 1932 , 1934 , and 1936 . |
| 14 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 15 | ALL of the leading Temps who gathered to witness the Earl of Carlisle opening their Institute in Gladstone Street on September 23 1903 were captured by a cameraman . |
| 16 | He thought the British were angered by the extent to which the Shah had criticized British sloth in recent years . |
| 17 | The British were squeezed by the tax-man until the pips squeaked — Aneurin Bevan 's phrase . |
| 18 | The Punjab had stood firm in 1857 ; the emirs of Northern Nigeria , it was noted with pride , stood firm in 1914 , when the British were forced by the outbreak of war with Germany to denude the area of troops . |
| 19 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 20 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 21 | This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers . |
| 22 | Of the remaining 40 cases , 38 complied strictly with their diet and this was supported by an improvement in the morphology of repeat small intestinal biopsy specimens or symptoms , or both and weight and laboratory indices . |
| 23 | This was recorded by the Hon. |
| 24 | Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century . |
| 25 | In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs . |
| 26 | This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail . |
| 27 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 28 | This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) . |
| 29 | This was funded by the Van Leer Foundation in the Hague and carried out under the aegis of the Child Development Unit in Bristol University . |
| 30 | A new one had been built in 1708 and this was replaced by a further wooden bridge in 1750 , which was , in turn , replaced in 1764 . |