Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 2 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 3 | because the work is more effectively carried out by a single-purpose organization rather than by a government department with a wide range of functions ; |
| 4 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 5 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 8 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 9 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 10 | I have seen beheading done too early and too suddenly — with the result that the still not perfectly united bud is literally pushed out by the sudden flood having nowhere else to go . |
| 11 | I think was er er erm Mr Thomas , and I think perhaps hinted on by the Senior Inspector as well , er what is , what is Greater York ? to do with Sylvia , erm |
| 12 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 13 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 14 | Yet last autumn Christie 's sold another ‘ canal houses ’ garniture , perhaps popped in by the Vietnamese just to test the water , for a mere Dfl28,000 ( £8,484 ) . |
| 15 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 16 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 17 | Three who did were Edith and Egbert Rose and Auguste , almost forcibly pushed in by a desperate Mr Multhrop . |
| 18 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 19 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 20 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 21 | This is being used to investigate the incidence of taxation and benefits at the level of individual households , building on the work already carried out by the Central Statistical Office . |
| 22 | The initial research is generally a one-man job ; the production is often best carried out by an established firm . |
| 23 | Instead they are normally closed out by an offsetting sale or purchase beforehand . |
| 24 | So Deborah went with Farmer Plant and was washed and generally cleaned up by the motherly farmwife . |
| 25 | Then she knew that she needed not to sneak out by the convenient back exit , but to leave through the front entrance , trusting its outrageous , ostentatious vulgarity to reassure and comfort her . |
| 26 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
| 27 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 28 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |
| 29 | Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements : |
| 30 | It could be one of the first of the man-made units of goodness to be added to the existing store already laid up by the evolutionary process . |