Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 2 | Although the near-monopoly enjoyed by solicitors was indefensible because it related only to the preparation of documents , ‘ there is a real need for consumer protection and I am far from sure that the White Paper proposals meet this need , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 4 | Children picked by paedophiles were likely to be reabused or become abusers themselves . |
| 5 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 6 | In the 1992 syllabus review it was clarified that vertical groups including associates held by subsidiaries were examinable in this paper . |
| 7 | This gearing ratio of some 34% of costs born by subsidies was well outside the original UDG guidelines . |
| 8 | The better view is that classical liberal economic thought , which propounded that the market allocated resources satisfactorily , that unimpeded private enterprise guaranteed growth and progress , and that intervention by governments was unnecessary and undesirable , had already become common ground . |
| 9 | of the capital of such companies to be held by nationals was contrary to article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 10 | More women referred by GPs were married ( 47 per cent ) or single ( 28 per cent ) than other referrals ( 35 per cent married and 19 per cent single ) . |
| 11 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 12 | Among others criticised by mums were cut-price Kwiksave , voted the worst supermarket chain ; Wimpy , the worst restaurant , and the now-defunct Dan-Air , the worst airline . |
| 13 | Of the sample 49 per cent felt that being pestered by men was inevitable . |
| 14 | Bagging experiments in Panama on Luehea seemanii ( Tiliaceae ) , which has ! lowers opening at night , suggestive of a nocturnal pollination syndrome , showed that diurnal visits by bees were responsible for higher numbers of fruits and seeds set . |
| 15 | Agnew turning it on towards Ormanroyd and the header by Laws was excellent . |
| 16 | Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry . |
| 17 | The evidence that it was an accident brought about by bullies was overwhelming , especially at a time when 9 out of 10 Britons were engulfed in a tide of hate for Hitler 's British Mosley stooges . |