Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said only a very small percentage of forests was used for furniture , the rest was wasted or burned as fuel by the local people . |
| 2 | In Oman on April 3 he appealed for intervention by the Arab League and the Organization of African Unity . |
| 3 | We know much more than anyone could possibly want to know about Bill and Hillary 's sex life er than we do er about prospects for economic recovery and this has happened to successive American presidents and it happens in part because in the U S the president and his family , and it has been a his so far , the president and his family take the part , not only the part played in England by the prime minister , but also the part played by the monarchy . |
| 4 | She gasped as if he 'd struck her , astounded beyond belief by the cool cruelty of his words . |
| 5 | This was done to provide sufficient scope for the scheme to assess a wide variety of projects , ranging from exploratory and practical to textbook work , encouraged in part by the large element of self study or group work which was a prominent feature of the course . |
| 6 | Then one , two hours hard travelling — avoiding languorous Nordic motorists lulled into somnambulance by the gentle , cradling motion of their Volvos , and the squalls that hover over stretches of road , waiting to burst heavy clouds of rain on passing travellers — and then the moose . |
| 7 | The crew of six survived the impact , five of them escaped to Sweden by the sixth member , Vic Stevens the Flight Engineer , injured his foot and being unable to travel was captured by the Germans . |
| 8 | Erratic currency markets in the first half of 1990 led to intervention by the major central banks to halt the strengthening United States dollar , and help the weakening Japanese yen . |
| 9 | His attack on a prominent Jesuit and his expansion of natural magic to embrace the allegedly miraculous powers of sacred relics led to denunciation by the Louvain medical faculty in 1623 and a subsequent appearance before the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 10 | Indistinct sounds emerged from within the earth , deprived of sense by the complicated acoustics of the soil . |
| 11 | Sybille , who witnessed Laura 's behaviour with journalists , believed she always felt under attack by the English press . |
| 12 | The accord followed a decision reached in July by the European Court of Justice that waste was not necessarily a " commercial good " , and could thus be exempted from the principle of free movement of such goods , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 13 | Some GGFs might also inhibit Schwann cell proliferation , for example the isoform represented in part by the splicing pattern of GGFBPP1 . |
| 14 | It would nevertheless be misleading to take a vision of an unchanging Spain , foisted on Europe by the literary travellers of the Romantic movement , as the key to her history . |
| 15 | Two regional blocs have emerged : Israel supported by the United States , and against it certain Arab states supported in part by the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | It is in these ways that The Roaring Girl begins to disclose how , because of the complex connections between sexuality , gender , and class , and specifically between sexual and economic exploitation , economic and political anxieties can be displaced into the domain of the sexual and conversely , the sexual comes to possess enormous signifying power ( though very different from that attributed to sexuality by the radical humanist ) . |
| 17 | Embattled after defeat by the Welsh , Ireland called in Lansdowne 's FERGUS AHERNE to face the English . |
| 18 | But Cheltenham has been hit by the recession , the signs are there , fuelled in part by the so-called peace dividend . |