Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 2 | Came out just by the Old Observatory . |
| 3 | A Title : PAPER PEOPLE ’ , which survives as a phrase in Shatov 's mouth , tossed up twice by the polemical flood . |
| 4 | He found that the weight of rubbish put out weekly by the average household fell from 25.6 pounds ( 11.6 kilos ) to 23.4 pounds — and the average weight of each rubbish bin rose by just over 42% , as citizens perfected the Seattle stomp . |
| 5 | But they rose on their own with virtually no support at all amongst ordinary workers , it was essentially a rising carried out exclusively by the Communist Party members themselves . |