Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 2 | They are contiguous only distally , and separated proximally by a wedge of small scales . |
| 3 | They are contiguous only distally and separated proximally by a wedge of scales . |
| 4 | ‘ O1a , amigo mio , ’ he whispered , watching the man 's shoulder-blades leap as if dragged together by a ten-ton truck . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have been discussing the possibility of a merger between the two companies according to the San Jose Mercury News Apple declined to comment on the report , and Novell denied it , saying that ‘ We 're always in industry discussions with them , but we 're not having discussions with them about merging , ’ but the paper says that the talks between Apple chairman John Sculley and Novell chairman Ray Noorda were a closely-guarded secret and known only by an elite group of senior executives at the two firms . |
| 6 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 7 | Tim falling down the Kud and brought in by a kind Indian , unconscious for a day , and in hospital for a week . |
| 8 | He was stunned by the absolute purity on all sides , on the wet trunks , tones of black contrasting dramatically with the showers of leaves , hung in suspension like clouds of golden rain , in loose tufts as if blown there by a wind . |
| 9 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |
| 10 | Newton replaced Galileo 's law of circular inertia with his own law of linear inertia , according to which bodies continue to move in straight lines at uniform speed unless acted on by a force . |
| 11 | First , it is necessary to take account of changes in the scale of societies , whether brought about by a growth of population or by political and military means , as in the creation of nation states out of numerous smaller units in Western Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see Chapter 5 ) or in the process of imperialist conquest and expansion . |
| 12 | Nor are they as turned on by a woman 's dress sense . |
| 13 | We shall assume a static magnetic field unc which will vary as unc when moved bodily by a velocity u . |
| 14 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |