Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 2 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 3 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 4 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 5 | Even she , who 'd been propositioned by experts , had to admit that . |
| 6 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 7 | The political ramifications of the case were highlighted after it emerged that two of the four co-operatives implicated were owned by members of Sharif 's ruling IDA and that substantial loans had been extended to a number of IDA politicians , including Sharif himself . |
| 8 | All the music played was written by composers who were chemists ( or almost so ) , ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century , from Campion to Elgar . |
| 9 | This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same . |
| 10 | But disenchantment set in because the outdated Merlin ( used for the Avro Tudor and Canadair Four ) clearly had little future , and the more rewarding prospect of a senior job on the new Dart engine ( destined for the Vickers Viscount ) kept being thwarted by delays to the project . |
| 11 | He found that the plastic namebar on his mailbox kept being pinched by fans , so he bought a hand label machine to replace it daily . |
| 12 | Every step they took was dogged by police officers . |
| 13 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 14 | The dilemma of which he spoke was felt by filmmakers as they sought to make films that dealt with the pressing contemporary issues , at a time when the initiative in world affairs had passed decisively to the Americans . |
| 15 | Whether these children had been raised by wolves or simply abandoned and left to their own devices in the forest is unclear . |
| 16 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 17 | Her ambitious trek to the distant city had been curtailed by protests from her overworked nervous system , crying for more of whatever the pink cans contained . |
| 18 | Sky City One had been built by constructs such as these , their bodies and minds tailored for the job in hand . |
| 19 | Coleman once referred to ‘ heartbreaking ’ letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice , but he said ‘ I have no compunctious visitings in the matter ’ . |
| 20 | Describing the donor response as " feeble " , Veloso said that only 387,000 tonnes of food had been pledged by donors , out of 916,000 tonnes requested ; less than 20 per cent of the amount requested had actually arrived in Mozambique . |
| 21 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 22 | By the time that the present case had reached the Court of Appeal , as many as 100 injunctions had been granted by judges of the Chancery Division , following the approach of Mervyn Davies J. By that time , too , the decision of the European Court of Justice in the Torfaen case had been followed by its decisions in the Conforama and Marchandise cases ; and it was the contention of the council that the approach of the court in the former case , upon which Wickes relied , had been tacitly abandoned by the court in the latter two cases . |
| 23 | Club secretary Bryan Ayres confirmed that the Underhill switchboard had been jammed by fans ringing in to voice their displeasure at Fry 's sacking . |
| 24 | Club secretary Bryan Ayres confirmed the Underhill switchboard had been jammed by fans , angry at Fry 's sacking . |
| 25 | Mrs Frak , a state enrolled nurse had been convicted by magistrates of common assault on Mrs Sarah Fribbins . |
| 26 | Mrs Frak , a state enrolled nurse had been convicted by magistrates of common assault on Mrs Sarah Fribbins . |
| 27 | Train services on the Esk Valley line were delayed for a short time and the Sprinter train was allowed to continue its journey after it had been examined by experts . |
| 28 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 29 | One long green stretch had been named by airmen familiar with this route ‘ The Million Dollar Valley ’ . |
| 30 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |