Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 2 | The cosy harshness was broken only by a pair of plastic houseplants and by prints of country scenes on the walls . |
| 3 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 4 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 5 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 6 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 7 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 8 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 9 | In 1705 – 06 , a striking case , the very important Vienna embassy was vacant for months , repeatedly turned down by a series of those to whom it was offered . |
| 10 | The Basel Convention on the transfer of toxic waste , whose primary purpose was to prevent uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste in third world countries , came into force in early May , against a background of warnings that it lacks sufficient political support , and is in danger of being watered down by a series of exemptions . |
| 11 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 12 | Because they made a crap single called ‘ We Do n't Need This Fascist Groove Thang ’ , another case of right sentiments , horrible attitude , and because they included ex-members of The Human League , League 17 were patronised heavily by the media in the early '80s . |
| 13 | The inmates are summoned together by the staff for an important announcement . |
| 14 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 15 | The first two generalizations are borne out by the data in Table 5.2 . |
| 16 | The ensuing 15 years have been characterized mainly by a series of opportunities for or constraints upon developing theses principles . |
| 17 | We are being taken to the ‘ limits of pain ’ brought on by a means of transport which is too loud , ugly , congested , dirty , dangerous and expensive . |
| 18 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 19 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 20 | Throughout the Diptera , and in the males of the Coccoidea , the hind wings are represented only by a pair of slender processes termed halteres . |
| 21 | The successful launch of the DTI 's two year HCI technology transfer programme ‘ Usability Now ! ’ is now being followed up by a series of half-day management briefings . |
| 22 | The programme is being followed up by a series of seminars linking the projects thematically ( ie training , financial services , and the professions ) . |
| 23 | The Greenpeace action is intended to be followed up by a series of prosecutions involving companies who , the organisation believes , are exceeding limits of discharge into the Mersey which is one of Europe 's most seriously polluted rivers . |
| 24 | Moreover , my main objection to Mr Graham 's analogy was the implication that this ‘ dignity ’ was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature ; and if one did not self-evidently have it , to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful . |
| 25 | Much of the speech by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , which lacked content , was taken up by a series of jealous tirades against the pay of people in the private sector who have satisfied shareholders , directors and other representatives of their need for a pay rise . |
| 26 | Sooner or later , this questions has to be fought out by the people of the land . |
| 27 | The campaigns will be managed , supported and promoted primarily by the staff of the relevant Group . |
| 28 | The management of the contract will be examined longitudinally by a series of visits to both firms , interviews with technical experts , senior management and a sample of users of the technology . |
| 29 | Mounting public concern has been fuelled recently by a series of horrifying assaults and murders , culminating in the killing of two-year-old James Bulger ten days ago . |
| 30 | A scheme is to be implemented whereby the blooms will be held offshore by a series of floating barriers . |