Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The items they brought back were both exotic and expensive , and soon became highly prized by the European aristocracy and wealthier members of the rapidly expanding merchant class . |
| 2 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
| 3 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 4 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 5 | An article published in the USA in 1867 under the title The Influence of Sewing Machines on Female Health warned against the inherent dangers of seamstresses becoming sexually aroused by the constant motion of the foot treadle , and advised the use of bromide to counteract any improper stimulation . |
| 6 | I use my PC for business and games , but I 'm becoming increasingly frustrated by the slow speed of some games . |
| 7 | The United defence was caught flat footed by the free kick and Cross was simply too strong ; too determined to be stopped . |
| 8 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 9 | The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds . |
| 10 | Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple ! |
| 11 | Now the Mark 2 T-Shirt , seen here modelled by the lovely Lady Hannah , is on sale . |
| 12 | He , too , seemed horribly distressed by the raucous din . |
| 13 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 14 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 15 | There was a party afterwards during which we were able to talk to some of the officers who seemed faintly bored by the whole process . |
| 16 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 17 | Here it is enough to note the invariable practice of including in a partnership agreement ( Clause 26 ) a provision which requires an outgoing partner , or his representatives , to join in a continuation election under s113 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 upon being requested so to do by the continuing partners . |
| 18 | CULROSS Largely administered by the National Trust for Scotland , a town still essentially sixteenth- and seventeenth-century in building and layout , with cobbled streets for the poor , ‘ planestane ’ strips for the gentry , a dignified Town House , preserved ‘ Little Houses ’ , and a shipping merchant 's white-harled , pantiled mansion which he chose to designate a ‘ palace ’ . |
| 19 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
| 20 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 21 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 22 | After its opposition to the war the ILP had become deeply influenced by the political currents produced by the Russian revolution . |
| 23 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 24 | Over recent years we have become increasingly alarmed by the dramatic growth in aggregates demand and the assumption that this growth will continue and must be catered for . |
| 25 | These wo n't be major giveaways , but the puppets have become magically affected by the overall magic of the Castle and their ‘ minds ’ have picked up fragments of what is elsewhere . |
| 26 | The habit of giving reversions had become well established by the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | Theories are construed as speculative and tentative conjectures or guesses freely created by the human intellect in an attempt to overcome problems encountered by previous theories and to give an adequate account of the behaviour of some aspects of the world or universe . |
| 28 | In fact , within a year of the formation of the Labour Government , senior officials in the Cabinet Office , Treasury and Board of Trade had become seriously alarmed by the cumbersome nature of the organization supporting the Attlee Cabinet , the proliferation of committees and the prolix and indecisive performance of some ministers . |
| 29 | The conclusion is that Nkrumah would have otherwise won by the two-thirds majority which was the general election pattern . |
| 30 | He became an alienated reactionary for whom the trauma of the First World War was reinforced by the memory of the fascist God that failed , and his thought became increasingly dominated by the negative obsession of the conspiracy theory of history . |