Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] out by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 2 | It is very much a system 's search mechanism as opposed to a search strategy initiated or purposefully carried out by the user . |
| 3 | This spread of interest is very much borne out by the selection of numbers given to each of the tenors where Tauber has more semi-serious and operatic numbers to sing than his tow seniors . |
| 4 | Last week , I was told about a club that closed an hour and a half early because the organisers were so freaked out by the number of collapses . |
| 5 | This is perhaps borne out by the fact that since the UK joined the EC with its current population of 320 million people , it has always operated with a net deficit on its balance of trade with its European partners . |
| 6 | Lennis had stressed the emptiness of his life in having a daughter who had little to do with him , an account apparently borne out by the daughter herself in her interview with the banker . |
| 7 | As much put out by the ticket inspector 's attitude as his demand for money , he paid and duly wrote to BR to complain saying he ‘ could see no justification in the circumstances for the excess charge . ’ |
| 8 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 9 | So far the source of consultees names is the series of recent consultation exercises already carried out by the Department and the Metro Development Group . |
| 10 | Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy . |
| 11 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 12 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 13 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 14 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 15 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 18 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 19 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 20 | The minister was not put out by the note of impatience in Bertha Cohen 's voice . |
| 21 | Of course , people who saw the ill-starred couple on parade in Nottingham this week were n't exactly knocked out by the body language . |
| 22 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 23 | Our own experiences with walking were very quickly confirmed when we read in Time magazine , November 1989 , that after the most detailed fitness study ever carried out by the Aerobics Institute in America , it had been established that moderate exercise can have all the beneficial effects that are normally associated with hard ‘ no pain , no gain' exercising ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 24 | A number of part-time units derived 90–98% of their income from the farm with the remainder coming from contract work , usually carried out by the son for a little extra income . |
| 25 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 26 | This judgement was quickly born out by the refusal of union leaders to participate in " social pact " talks with the government and employers , viewing the talks as a device to avert the anticipated social protest over a economic austerity programme inherited from Cerezo . |
| 27 | Any suspicion that the German company is lowering its sights with the 518i is quickly snuffed out by the introduction of two new six-cylinder engines introduced at the 1990 Motor Show . |
| 28 | There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk . |
| 29 | The agreement reached over the ( h ) — ( b ) and ( e ) — ( f ) pairs is also borne out by the original . |
| 30 | This was also borne out by the inclusion of catalogues at the end of the book , looking very much like contributions from various nurseries and it is evident that those recommending the work did so with an eye to business . |