Example sentences of "was [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incubation was stopped by rapid washing ( 4×2 ml over 10 s ) with ice cold buffer . |
| 2 | In 1954 he completed the restoration of the chapel , which was ravaged by death-watch beetle . |
| 3 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 4 | Dr Ashok Kumar was joined by Labour housing spokesman George Howarth on a visit to a community refurbishment scheme on the Hornsea Estate , Hemlington . |
| 5 | In the new government the PNV was joined by Basque Solidarity ( EA ) , with nine parliamentary seats , itself a splinter group of the PNV , and by Basque Left ( EE ) , with six . |
| 6 | Later , Mobbs was joined by other subject groups . |
| 7 | It was joined by another voice ; he realized it was his own . |
| 8 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 9 | The waiter was joined by another waiter , equally stoic ; their faces were grained by evening shadow . |
| 10 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 11 | Writing moved from ( i ) a supporting and recording function , in societies in which oral composition and tradition were still predominant , through ( ii ) a stage in which this function was joined by written composition for oral performance and ( iii ) a further stage in which composition was additionally written only to be read , to ( iv ) that later and very familiar stage in which most or virtually all composition was written to be silently read , and was at last , for this reason , generalized as ‘ literature ’ . |
| 12 | The archimandrite was rebuked by Metropolitan Stratimirović for keeping ‘ that blasphemer amongst your priests ’ . |
| 13 | In 1872 a statue to his memory was erected by public subscription in Albert Square , Dundee . |
| 14 | For each subject a stool form score was calculated by simple addition of their three gradings , giving a range from 3 ( consistently constipated ) to 18 ( consistently loose ) . |
| 15 | The best fit between these measurements for each patient was calculated by non-linear regression analysis . |
| 16 | The library was heated by warm air fanned through a grille . |
| 17 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 18 | The final ceremony was witnessed by U Thant as UN Secretary General . |
| 19 | The raid was witnessed by self-employed block paver Tim Sutton , from Anchor Road , Clacton , who was working at nearby Gaity Amusements . |
| 20 | He was riveted by that news . |
| 21 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 22 | The non-profit making body — known as MAS , or Musicians Against Success — was formed by JUNIOR GISCOMBE , THE MEN THEY COULD N'T HANG , an MC who no-one can remember the name of , and DREAM ACADEMY 's lighting man , as a direct response to recent developments in the charts . |
| 23 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 24 | Last month Tim Devlin 's proposed new route was dismissed by National Grid . |
| 25 | His original appeal against conviction , pursuant to section 1 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 , was dismissed by this court on 14 October 1988 . |
| 26 | Galina Starovoitova , presidential adviser on nationalities policy and a prominent democratic figure , was dismissed by presidential decree on Nov. 4 . |
| 27 | They were born of frustration and powerlessness , expressed resentment at contradictions between rhetoric and practice in an idiom which was sustained by modern technology and strengthened by its effectiveness in legitimate affairs . |
| 28 | Briefly , NANA was oxidised by periodic acid ( 0.9 N ; 37°C ) , and then this oxidised component was bound to thiobarbituric acid giving a stable chromophore in butanol . |
| 29 | Even his overseas expansion was prescribed by rational identification of opportunity rather than the quasi-imperialism that typified much of the ambition in the UK advertising agency sector . |
| 30 | They were constructed up to a height of 50 feet in three or four storeys ( height of buildings was limited by Roman law ) . |