Example sentences of "[verb] together by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , only one of the two can come out of his little door at any one time , not just because that would make impossible weather , but because the two little men are joined together by a metal bar : one has to stay in if the other one is out . |
| 2 | Yes , that was how he would draw them : soldered together by a mother 's love . |
| 3 | These three different risk factors are connected together by a cost factor . |
| 4 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 5 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |
| 6 | I worked my way along the haphazard-looking perimeter fence formed from the tombs of kings and bishops ; all one piece , all stitched together by a web of carved stone and iron railings . |
| 7 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ O1a , amigo mio , ’ he whispered , watching the man 's shoulder-blades leap as if dragged together by a ten-ton truck . |
| 9 | In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible . |
| 10 | The conference would become a rally before which John Major must perform , reading from a thirty-minute script cobbled together by a squad of clever young men . |
| 11 | Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter 's pound . |
| 12 | The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie . |
| 13 | Most of them were senior members of the Institute and Hall could well have been surprised to find himself confronted with a group of men bound together by a considerable degree of common purpose and understanding . |
| 14 | Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die . |
| 15 | The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie . |
| 16 | Speakers of a common language , by contrast , are bound together by a moral practice . |
| 17 | The company is viewed as an organic body , bound together by a common purpose under the direction of its expert managers . |
| 18 | Once again , the community , like that of the termites , is bound together by a system of chemical messages , the pheromones , perpetually circulating within the hive , which inform all the inhabitants of the state of the population and of the absence or presence of the queen . |
| 19 | But this was not a justification for the dissolution of an association of this kind ; the different republics and nationalities were bound together by a common history , by ties of marriage and settlement , and by the trade that they conducted with each other . |
| 20 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |
| 21 | On the contrary , according to the Middle East International of Feb. 22 , in the occupied territories the supporters of the PLO and those of its rival , the strongly Islamic Hamas , were brought together by a blend of secular nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism similar to that achieved by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein . |
| 22 | Anderston was a warren of narrow gas-lit streets , of tenements linked together by a spider 's web of overhead tram wires , swaying in the wind above the cobbles . |
| 23 | Within two years the company will have mainframe-class machines based on many cheap CMOS processors , linked together by a high speed switch similar in concept to the RISC-based SP1 ( CI No 2126 ) . |
| 24 | It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 25 | It consists of a number of locally based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented . |
| 26 | Morris goes on to argue that the Melanau image of the spirit world reproduces this social environment by representing the cosmos as ‘ a kind of loose composite or ‘ international ’ society knit together by a commonly held ‘ rule of law ’ ' ( 1967 : 214 ) . |
| 27 | All of which has been glued together by a not inconsiderable act of faith , since none of the principal funders — the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council are both being asked for £20,000 — has yet put its thumbprint on the relevant cheque . |
| 28 | This triple-edged razor is probably put together by a bunch of names that we 're already familiar with and on a label strong enough to propel it into the club circus , but if it is n't it does n't matter ; there 's a future here if this is a first attempt . |
| 29 | It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier . |
| 30 | It was like a machine where every single bit was perfectly made , but had been put together by a one-handed nome in the dark . |