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Rarely in a natural construction. For example, you could rearrange the passive sentence "The cake was eaten by Beth" using inverted sentence structure (anastrophe) to get "By Beth the cake was eaten." Though not strictly incorrect, such a structure would very rarely be used in a natural conversational or written context, though you might find it in some types of poetry and perhaps religious texts. It's kind of a forced sentence type and most likely to be used either for a dramatic effect or to fit the flow/rhyme of a poem.

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