Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 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 .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 ‘ O1a , amigo mio , ’ he whispered , watching the man 's shoulder-blades leap as if dragged together by a ten-ton truck .
7 In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible .
8 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 .
9 Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter 's pound .
10 The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie .
11 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 .
12 Two lives are bound together by a cord , and if this were to be broken prematurely , one would die .
13 The two sentences are bound together by a cohesive tie .
14 Speakers of a common language , by contrast , are bound together by a moral practice .
15 The company is viewed as an organic body , bound together by a common purpose under the direction of its expert managers .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 It consists of a number of locally-based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented .
23 It consists of a number of locally based groups , linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The data , not previously available to Western scientists , was put together by a team at the University of East Anglia 's climatic research unit .
29 Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers .
30 Babies ' christening robes were particularly affecting ; they might have been blown together by a soft breeze , so invisible was their stitching .
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