Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 2 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 3 | ‘ It was lit up by Mayor Dinkins 's wife and the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street , ’ a museum curator tells me . |
| 4 | And that in fact was , produced a split vote in the police authority fifty fifty , and it , it was chucked out by the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 5 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 6 | It was played down by the band and manager Steve Harrison , who is paranoid about being seen to ‘ cash in ’ , ‘ manipulate ’ or any of those other snidey cracks that godhead success usually brings . |
| 7 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 8 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 9 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 10 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 11 | It was pointed out by Griffiths ( 1987 ) , however , that this solution may easily be generalized by treating the parameter k in ( 10.36 ) as another arbitrary constant . |
| 12 | It was pointed out by Ernst ( 1986 ) that the Nutku Halil solution can be derived from the isotropic ( ) Kasner metric by applying a double-Harrison ( Bäcklund ) transformation . |
| 13 | It was pointed out by Wragg and Robertson ( 1978 ) that total factor productivity must rise if growth is to be sustained . |
| 14 | Soon after the publication of Barro 's studies it was pointed out by Leiderman ( 1980 ) that Barro 's model embodied two important but separate hypotheses — rational expectations and what is called structural neutrality — and that it was possible to test for rational expectations separately , and then , given rational expectations , test for structural neutrality . |
| 15 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 16 | There it was pointed out by Dillon LJ that inequality of bargaining power was not sufficient on its own to enable a court to strike down a contract . |
| 17 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 18 | It was swallowed up by London Transport , who owned the site , and became part of South Kensington underground station . |
| 19 | Cockerton had lost its individual council in 1915 when it was swallowed up by Darlington Corporation which had promised much , but delivered little . |
| 20 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 21 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 22 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 23 | Ghana symbolised West Africa before it was carved up by the Europeans ; it symbolised the African federation Nkrumah longed to assemble . |
| 24 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 25 | He offered his resignation but it was turned down by Mr Major . |
| 26 | Where large scale production existed it was carried out by slaves , as was the case with gold mining in the Asante kingdom . |
| 27 | Prior to this it was carried out by the Directorship-general of Fine Arts , Academies and Libraries , part of the Ministry of Education . |
| 28 | Legislation requiring the registration of houses taking children for adoption followed , but respectable working class women resented this inspection , especially when it was carried out by the Poor Law Relieving Officer . |
| 29 | The report said that £20.2m was spent unlawfully on highways maintenance since 1988 as it was carried out by Lambeth Direct Labour Organisation ( DLO ) without being put out to competitive tender . |
| 30 | In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government . |