Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his description of melody , Otto Károlyi states that analysis of large numbers of melodies shows that an ascending melodic line is sooner or later balanced by a descending one , and vice versa . |
| 2 | As one lies basking in the sun , it may be pounced upon by a hawk or even grabbed by a human being . |
| 3 | In other insects the clypeus is partially or completely divided by a transverse suture into two sclerites — the postclypeus and the anteclypeus ( Fig. 304 ) . |
| 4 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 5 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 6 | But it is a common and easily observed fact that measures of aggregate output in any economy tend to be positively serially correlated ; that is , a higher than average value for aggregate output in any period is more often than not followed by a higher than average value next period and , similarly , a low value in any period is more likely to be followed by another low one than by a high one . |
| 7 | When she did breathe ‘ cancer ’ , in her muffled contralto , the implications were of something exceedingly unfortunate with a strong hint of divine retribution , more often than not accompanied by a sharp , righteous , ‘ be sure your sins will find you out . ’ |
| 8 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 9 | The sentimental side , although well presented by a fine ballad like ‘ Make the Man Love Me ’ , is both overshadowed and made more sugary by the comic element of Cisssie , the heroine 's sister , with her string of ‘ husbands ’ all called Harry and her rosy outlook . |
| 10 | Captures the angry collapsing mood of the country as Allende 's left wing government is threatened and eventually deposed by a right wing junta . |
| 11 | It was attacked and badly damaged by a patrolling Hurricane , Flt.Lt . |
| 12 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 13 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 14 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 15 | Ultra-modern and apparently inspired by a Thirties liner , it houses JJ 's , the best night spot in town . |
| 16 | But the concept of the sacred and monumental quarter , which still makes Pisa famous , was born in the 1060s , and further advanced by a similar raid in which Pisans and Genoese joined on the great Muslim city of al-Mahdiyyah in 1087 . |
| 17 | The Centre should be timetabled for operational use by students and formally supervised by a designated member of staff . |
| 18 | Now , the embalmers had carefully replaced the face but the torso of the corpse was a mass of wounds and grossly disfigured by a black line which stretched from the crotch to the neck . |
| 19 | The markers of this style are Latin wordiness and complex syntax : the former especially evident in the frequency of abstract nouns ( usually polysyllabic and often accompanied by a polysyllabic adjective ) , and the latter in the use of relative clauses and -ing participial constructions . |
| 20 | Pronounced both fine and valuable by experts , this exquisite collection of pictures was most happily and appropriately acquired by a generous father for his son , who is chief blender in the newly-formed firm of coffee and tea merchants , Brodie Melrose Drysdate & Co . |
| 21 | Conscious of our lack of truly integrated teaching sessions , and freshly inspired by a successful ‘ joint ’ activity weekend at a local Outward Bound Centre , we made plans to change the structure of one particular curriculum area . |
| 22 | Jason Howard was very human and charming as Figaro , suitably ironic too , and well matched by a youthful , fetching and amply-toned Susanna ( Rosa Mannion ) . |
| 23 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |
| 24 | My idea of heaven is a meal starting with champagne and smoked salmon and then followed by a whole series of pudding trolleys rolling up one by one ! ’ |
| 25 | Unlike previous qualifications , NVQs will not be acquired by means of set examinations , which are then marked by college lecturers and then verified by a visiting assessor . |
| 26 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 27 | Rokeya looked like a figure in a strangely exposed photograph , silhouetted , caught , highly defined by the light , like a prisoner running from a concentration camp , cruelly and horribly revealed by a roof-top guard 's spotlight . |
| 28 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 29 | They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other . |
| 30 | In March he was shot and seriously injured by a right-wing extremist . |