The phrase "was burnt by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
Example: The toast was burnt by the careless chef, leaving a charred mess on the plate.
A draft document was burnt by the hangman in the centre on Edinburgh.
Most of his music was burnt by a friend immediately after his death.
Despite being so much in the public eye, Lewis says he was burnt by the response to his personal assessment 55/45 in favour of remaining.
An EU flag was burnt by far-right protesters as they congregated by the port, where they spoke in favour of Brexit and against immigration.
"Claiming it was burnt by the Mafia," he cut in, "is about as useful as saying it was attacked by alien spacecraft".An attack by spacecraft is one of the few notions that have not been put to the magistrate investigating the fire, Felice Casson.
This study analyses whether post-fire vegetation dynamics may differ according to specific historical land use histories in a Mediterranean forest landscape of about 60,000 ha that was burnt by extensive fires.
Have the fingers on his right hand been burnt by trying to play too hard and too fast?
Often Sunni houses are burnt by Shia militiamen and in one village Kurdish fighters had reportedly sprayed over the word "apostate" placed there by Isis and instead written "Kurdish home".
The natural gas is burnt by an existing gas-fired boiler and the heat from it is currently covering their heat demand.
Ezra then led the people to locate the only surviving copy of Torah as the remaining were burnt by Nebuchadnezzar.
Crops were flattened by the storm and in some instances had been "burnt" by the sheer force of the wind.
