Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] by the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The district council claim that unauthorised use of the farm shop for the sale of goods not produced within the farm holding is not a use ancillary to agricultural use , and is contrary to policies laid down by the district local plan . |
| 2 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 3 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 4 | The new economic deal , worked out by the Deputy Prime Minister , Mr Leszek Balcerowicz , aims to expand the private sector in trade and industry , reform banking and financial systems and introduce the internal convertibility of the Polish currency , the zloty . |
| 5 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 6 | The Nov. 5 assassination in New York of the extremist Jewish leader Meir Kahane [ see p. 37872 ] intensified tension and fuelled the spiralling violence in Israel and the occupied territories in November , sparked off by the Oct. 8 shooting of at least 17 Arabs at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem . |