Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 2 | We are nation builders , consecrated to God and to one another , and are ourselves stones in the very building we wish to see raised by the Divine Architect of our country . |
| 3 | This is largely due to support provided by the British Library Research and Development Division which during 1978–1980 funded projects in seven UK library schools based on the use of the HP2645A . |
| 4 | I have noticed before when surfing that time seems to slow up the moment I realize I 'm going to get trashed by the next wave … ! |
| 5 | Whichever drawing he particularly commented on in the evening was certain to have disappeared by the next day . |
| 6 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 7 | All abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s recognised their organisational weakness and the barrier to influence created by the widespread assumption that the main task of British abolitionism was completed . |
| 8 | COSMIC structure is thought to have arisen by the gravitational amplification of small density fluctuations in the early Universe . |
| 9 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 10 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 11 | Kate looked back at him consideringly , trying hard not to feel intimidated by the fierce energy that was being directed at her . |
| 12 | She was already starting to feel battered by the increased level of the sound , and it was a relief to get out into the lower buzz and the cooler lights . |