Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] by the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around him , the other England players gradually acclimatised to their new surroundings , pleasantly suprised by the facilities laid on by the Indian authorities . |
| 2 | UN specialists say that the regulations , plans and treaties agreed on by the Mediterranean countries have not significantly curbed the outpouring of sewage and industrial effluent from the 360 million people who live around the Mediterranean basin . |
| 3 | A statement agreed on by the Foreign Ministers asserted " the illegitimacy of all forms of Israeli settlement " in the occupied territories and stressed the importance of " full UN participation " and " effective EC participation " in the peace process . |
| 4 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 5 | Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated . |
| 6 | So the Minister has to be very clear , when he comes to the Dispatch Box , whether any company applying to take over STG subsidiaries will be required to take on board the specifications laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 7 | They claim for each piece of work done and are paid according to rates laid down by the Dental Estimates Board . |
| 8 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 9 | For his purposes data sheets are ideal and standard tests laid down by the national standards institutions are the methods that he uses . |
| 10 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 11 | When once the German impetus had exhausted itself , ground down by the lethal barrages from the Bois Bourrus guns , the inevitable French riposte would — within 24 hours — push the survivors back again . |
| 12 | Development in the Third World has stalled , ground down by the relentless wheels of the global economic machine . |
| 13 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 14 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 15 | Seaweed floats loosely around in a sea churned up by the stormy waters . |
| 16 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 17 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 18 | But the economically less powerful sections of the middle class became increasingly outspoken , exploiting to the full the limited opportunities for organization and public debate opened out by the great reforms . |
| 19 | Strangely , the sun also shone , though it turned a dusty red , blotted out by the dark wings of vultures . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Maybe it 's in the re-discovered Viking city , now covered over by the Civic Offices . |
| 22 | The light above her was remote and useless , blocked off by the triangular edges of the staircase . |
| 23 | If no such election is made , the profits of the firm must be taxed as if , on the departure of the outgoing partner , the existing business had closed and a new business started up by the continuing partners . |
| 24 | Over the following five years , in a textbook case of the value of basic research , the microprocessor programmers learned to adapt the ideas worked out by the academic researchers , and in doing so created a new , if quite small , industry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 28 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 29 | He designed the Palazzo del Tè , Mantua , in 1525 , and decorated it with frescos ; in the Sala de' Giganti the room is painted from floor to ceiling , so that the spectator feels overwhelmed by the rocks and thunderbolts hurled down by the rebellious Titans . |
| 30 | 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 . |