Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development in the Third World has stalled , ground down by the relentless wheels of the global economic machine . |
| 2 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 3 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 4 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 5 | expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right . |
| 6 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 7 | In silence they passed down the grandness of Whitehall , hemmed in by the blank facades of bureaucracy , ministries where men and women toiled in cold obscurity . |
| 8 | An understanding of the biotic and expressive orders supplies us with an improved appreciation of human agency ; one which means we need no longer envisage people as automatic pilots swept along by the broad forces of capitalist processes and social relations . |
| 9 | Do n't be put off by the two sets of coordinates . |
| 10 | The light above her was remote and useless , blocked off by the triangular edges of the staircase . |
| 11 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 12 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 13 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 14 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 15 | I scuttle off , to be swallowed up by the wavering shadows of mulberry trees . |
| 16 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 17 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 18 | Strangely , the sun also shone , though it turned a dusty red , blotted out by the dark wings of vultures . |
| 19 | A carer , worn out by the unending demands of her task , shakes her mother when she spits out her tablets . |
| 20 | THE United States and Soviet Union will be invited to take part directly in resolving the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua , under proposals worked out by the foreign ministers of the five Central American peace plan countries in a pre-summit meeting here . |
| 21 | THE United States and Soviet Union will be invited to take part directly in resolving the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua , under proposals worked out by the foreign ministers of the five Central American peace plan countries in a pre-summit meeting here . |
| 22 | An amazing amount of work carried out by the three members of the pest control team , with some additional help with larger jobs during the summer period . |
| 23 | The caption said ‘ Even the best white water rafters in the world get caught out by the fierce rapids of the River Coruh . ’ |
| 24 | So it is clear that the two kinds of productivity — children and intellectual achievements — can be combined , as is borne out by the subsequent careers of the forty two students who matriculated in 1966 and who answered the questionnaire . |
| 25 | They found Faltour 's Lane and turned into the dirty refuse-filled alleyway , the daylight almost blocked out by the overhanging gables of the houses which reared up on either side . |
| 26 | The genetic influence is borne out by the characteristic temperaments of various breeds . |
| 27 | These are blotted out by the dominant images of Christian England and the establishment and power of the greatest empire the world has ever seen . |
| 28 | This is brought about by the spiralling levels of taxation upon the private sector . |
| 29 | In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials . |
| 30 | Thus microclimate effects can have major short-term implications for local populations ( such as those brought about by the photochemical smogs of Los Angeles ) , are often applicable only over areas of a few hectares or less and may operate on a diurnal cycle . |