Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 2 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 3 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 4 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 5 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 6 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 7 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 8 | It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule . |
| 9 | Some of these other forms of treatment — even some that are advised and carried out by the medical profession — are the clinical equivalent of the extraordinarily inhuman ( and ineffective ) previous " treatment " of cancer patients by pulling out all their teeth . |
| 10 | The coroner 's jury had even brought in a sensational verdict , that ‘ the murder was organised and carried out by the Royal Irish Constabulary , officially directed by the British Government , and we return a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George , Prime Minister of England … . ’ |
| 11 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 12 | Every political leader is locked inside an impenetrable bubble and wafted around by a gigantic retinue of security advisers to keep us out . |
| 13 | Mr Hodge remembered the seas had been very rough as the crew attempted to rescue the couple , who had been surprised and cut off by a fast moving tide at Huntcliff . |
| 14 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 15 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 16 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 17 | But these objects , ritualistically sprinkled and gestured over by a Catholic priest or Aymara sage , take on a new significance as promises of future prosperity . |
| 18 | As with all the best competitions the rules are entirely arbitrary and drawn up by an impartial judging commmittee consisting of the proprietor of this column and nobody else . |
| 19 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 20 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 21 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 22 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 23 | At the same time , GKR has not been sold out and swallowed up by a larger organisation , as have MSL by Saatchi & Saatchi and Norman Broadbent by Charles Barker , although there is an element of outside shareholding . |
| 24 | However outré , each item emerges looking chewed over and softened up by the editorial enzymes . |
| 25 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 26 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 27 | I reach the lower patio where the garden furniture stands by the side of the tarpaulin-covered pool and crouch down by the ghostly perforated shape of the cast-iron bench . |
| 28 | Stiff with pride — which she was now sick and tired of being told was a Leo trait — and buoyed up by the certain knowledge that it would have been morally indefensible for her to desert her father , Laura had taken some weeks to realise that there must surely have been another way for them to solve their problems . |
| 29 | From the free-kick , Anderton 's shot squeezed through a wall which resembled a collander , hit Deane on the way through and rolled in by the near post . |
| 30 | Then , if we reduce the bottom right-hand element to unity , we have unc We now evaluate B2 and divide through by the bottom right-hand element to obtain unc Evaluation of F2/2.4997 repeats F except for occasional small differences in the fourth decimal place . |