Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 2 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 3 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 4 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 5 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 6 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 7 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 8 | If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs . |
| 9 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 10 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 11 | At the end of a busy day , broken only by a brief snack lunch with Mike Freeman 's secretary , Kate , Merrill was tired . |
| 12 | After many years of almost continuous work , broken only by a short honeymoon in 1833 , Gooch 's health failed and he was taken ill in 1847 at his London office . |
| 13 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 14 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 15 | Under section 14(2) , a fishing vessel is to be regarded as being British-owned if the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel is beneficially owned wholly by a qualified company or companies or , as to at least 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 16 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 17 | I asked him , ‘ Have you got any old letters in the attic ? ’ and he said ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ , is his mildly amazed recall of this historian 's jackpot — one which he then capitalised on by a determined digging out of all the other surviving relatives , enabling the construction of the definitive Shrewsbury family tree in the book . |
| 18 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 19 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 20 | It might possibly be occupied only by a raddled ancient , of no threat . |
| 21 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |
| 22 | Is he aware that many of us are concerned because the next generation of inward investment will be attracted not by a low-wage economy or a low-wage work force , but by the best trained and educated work force in Europe ? |
| 23 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 24 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 25 | Firm C was a provincial branch practice in a north country town , carried largely by a managing clerk . |
| 26 | A finger of grey granite boulders defiantly standing there in the mud and sand , surrounded permanently by a large lake during low water , much to the delight of the local children during the Summer . |
| 27 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 28 | A candidate could refuse to answer certain personal questions posed directly by a potential employer , a problem partially overcome by employing a search consultant as an intermediary . |
| 29 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 30 | His interest in media started as a by-product of buying the House of Fraser , initially a large department stores group built up by a nationalistic Scot , Lord Fraser of Annandale . |