Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 2 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 3 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 4 | Since the new recruits in the hive had not been tampered with and were stimulated by the light , they misinterpreted the dance of the returning foragers . |
| 5 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 6 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 7 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 8 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 9 | We started from the car park just outside Charmouth and were warned by the parking attendant that it was a harder walk than many thought . |
| 10 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 11 | All these records are twelve inches in diameter and were made by the Gramophone Company of Great Britain between 1920 and 1925 . |
| 12 | The longest pre-recorded cylinders regularly marketed bore the legend ‘ Smethurst 's System ’ , and were made by the Sterling company in London . |
| 13 | The monkeys themselves turned out to be a highly evolved and accomplished band of thieves , and were treated by the Biranese as a neighbouring tribe . |
| 14 | In spite of the promptings of self-interest these men took great risks and were illuminated by the concept of the romantic hero : failure meant death and entry into the liberal calendar of martyrs . |
| 15 | People became mannequins and were consumed by the chaos . |
| 16 | Similarly , in the second case the defendant company in the national litigation had transferred its cargo loading and unloading business to another company , but the plaintiff employees refused to transfer to the new employers and were dismissed by the transferor . |
| 17 | With Milton and Marvell , both of whom supported Parliament and were employed by the state during the Commonwealth and Protectorate , we have instances of writers with direct political involvement in their times . |
| 18 | Local elections were held on Dec. 8 — the first elections since the military coup of 1983 — and were contested by the two government-sanctioned parties . |
| 19 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 20 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 21 | On 11 January 1990 all three of the directors resigned and were replaced by the applicant as sole director . |
| 22 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 23 | And , of course , perhaps both Eugenia and I are snobs at heart and were flattered by the invitation to go cruising on a very expensive yacht . ’ |
| 24 | In addition , there were a number of other conflicting relationships within this central ( and here , much simplified ) question , which affected and were affected by the course of the war as a military exercise . |
| 25 | We visited both city and rural programmes and were struck by the amazing capacity of the people to overcome adversity , both natural disasters and the extremes of poverty . |
| 26 | From mid-May to mid-June the Mozarts stayed in Naples , where they visited Vesuvius and Pompeii , went to the opera at the beautiful San Carlo theatre , and were received by the King and Queen of Naples . |
| 27 | Released in September 1926 , following the defeat of the general strike , he organized national hunger marches in 1929 , 1932 , and 1934 , which were largely ostracized by the Labour movement and were harassed by the police , sometimes leading to violence . |
| 28 | Some Galla became Christian and were assimilated by the Amhara ; others , notably in Wollo , became Muslim ; but many remained pagan . |
| 29 | The points of contact with the Greek world were innumerable and were increased by the use of Celts as mercenaries in Italy and practically everywhere else . |
| 30 | The ANC proposals envisaged a two-phase transition to a post-apartheid democracy and were supported by the SACP . |