Example sentences of "[vb past] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mice sired by fathers that had been given morphine learn more slowly . |
| 2 | Unexplained action at a distance was permitted by Newtonians but dismissed by Cartesians as metaphysical and even occult . |
| 3 | Talking about DOS , although there are no firm figures , it 's also a fair bet that there are still machines running DOS 2.1 and 3.2 , never mind 4.01 and the myriad other flavours DOS has gone through , their owners reasonable happy , but beset by problems that DOS 5.0 sorts out . |
| 4 | The Dancing Pirate , musical set in a Mexican village beset by pirates , five to one , Search For Tomorrow |
| 5 | This was the image of football in the eighties a game dogged by fans fighting on the terraces and running onto the pitch . |
| 6 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
| 7 | In the event , he was given a 40-akce medrese , from which he rose by degrees through the medreses and the mevleviyets eventually to hold the office of kazasker of Rumeli from 954/1547 to 958/1551 . |
| 8 | In all three patients , subsequent laparotomy showed a distal CBD occluded by clips and a partially resected common hepatic duct , with free bile leakage into the abdominal cavity . |
| 9 | Much of the " extravagant " expenditure of the lower orders so bemoaned by contemporaries went on imported " groceries " — tea , sugar and tobacco — but consuming these also involved consuming the products of growing home manufactures . |
| 10 | A weekend tour to Scotland ten days later leads in the County Championship season , all indicative of the care devoted by counties to finding , grooming and coaching talented young players . |
| 11 | Data from the GHS indicates that the time devoted by carers to their tasks is considerable ( Table 8.4 ) . |
| 12 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 13 | But a wife 's implied consent and contract can hardly extend to being overpowered and stupefied by drugs for the purpose of intercourse . |
| 14 | The pattern is not greatly different from that reported by Jevons for Victorian Britain — the family on $35 000 paying , if anything , a lower percentage than the household on $10000 a year . |
| 15 | Does this mean enhanced job satisfaction for the professional nurse , even beyond that reported by nurses who deliver care in a primary nursing system ? |
| 16 | Not only were nobles who defected from the support of Otto of Brunswick punished by sentences of excommunication , such as Otto 's brother , Henry the count Palatine , and the duke of Brabant in 1204 – 5 , but also the ecclesiastical hierarchy who as temporal as well as spiritual princes might face revolt on their estates as well as censure from ecclesiastics within the diocese or province . |
| 17 | The cloned human N-Oct 3 appears to be the counterpart of the murine brain-2 factor recently cloned by others [ 15 ] . |
| 18 | Any models hit are not struck by the Goblin 's spike , but caught by pieces of flying debris , smashed weapons , and broken armour . |
| 19 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 20 | There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms . |
| 21 | ‘ For the introduction of cameras triggered by cars running red lights at intersections ’ |
| 22 | The neurophysiological CTP asserts that perception consists of neural events triggered by events in the perceived object . |
| 23 | In both , the characters drift somnambulistically through life , unconsciously impelled by emotions of which not only they , but also the author , can give little or no account . |
| 24 | The Australian Aborigines did not develop a system of writing their own language and the written attempts to spell the words phonetically are the work of Europeans , missionaries or Aboriginals trained by Europeans . |
| 25 | Janzen calculated that in a fig ‘ seed ’ shadow in Costa Rica created by bats depositing ‘ splats ’ at the density of some 10perm2 over 2500m2 , there were 367500 fig seeds dispersed . |
| 26 | Further , part of the reduction in horizontal segregation has been a consequence of the entry of men into traditional areas of women 's employment , rather than of women into those higher-paying sectors traditionally monopolized by men . |
| 27 | On the same day , the House voted on whether to adopt an administration-backed bill in place of that sponsored by Ways and Means with Rostenkowski warning : ‘ If we accept the President 's substitute , we accept his dominance of our house for the months ahead . |
| 28 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 29 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 30 | Upon delivery of the original bill to SeaDocs , the shipper was to receive a code or test key equivalent to the personal identification numbers ( PIN ) provided by banks for use with automated teller machines . |