Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 2 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 3 | The rest bobbed up and down at chin height , or remained by the bathing-machine steps . |
| 4 | The epidermis is penetrated at intervals by tiny pores known as stomata , which can be opened or closed by the surrounding guard cells , through which carbon dioxide enters ( and oxygen exits ) . |
| 5 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 6 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 7 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 8 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 9 | Firstly on the second page , number fifty eight , the Education Act in the middle of page one nine four four , refers to schools used and maintained by the local authority . |
| 10 | PCR products were electrophoresed on agarose gels and purified by the Geneclean procedure followed by direct sequencing . |
| 11 | John Bland , as amiable a sportsman as one would wish to meet , is naturally disturbed and disheartened by the increasing number of tournaments in which he , as a South African , can not compete . |
| 12 | In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament . |
| 13 | You will commonly , of course , advise your client of any facts of interest , which you have discovered by your enquiries ; for example , that the road has not yet been taken over by the local authority , that plans for building on the property were submitted to and rejected by the local authority , etc . |
| 14 | The appeals were heard and rejected by the same appeal committee on the same day . |
| 15 | Yet clinical ecology has been severely criticised in the High Court and castigated by the Royal College of Physicians and the American College of Physicians ; and the provocation testing used by clinical ecologists has been shown by a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine to be unscientific . |
| 16 | The politically oriented , even Marxist basis , of his critical and ironic interpretation is obscured and scientized by the structuralist conceptualisation of method . |
| 17 | The seminar was supported by WACC and hosted by the African Council for Communication Education just one week after an earthquake had devastated some of the most deprived areas of Cairo . |
| 18 | The seminar was supported by WACC and hosted by the African Council for Communication Education just one week after an earthquake had devastated some of the most deprived areas of Cairo . |
| 19 | Organised by WACC 's Pacific region and hosted by the Divine Word Institute , the workshop aims to equip local publishers to take over responsibility for the layout and design of their own publications . |
| 20 | This publication is the final report of a seminar organised by the Association of Researchers in Voluntary Action and Community Involvement ( ARVAC ) and hosted by the Voluntary Services Unit at the Home Office in November 1990 . |
| 21 | The seminar is being organised by WACC 's North American regional association and hosted by The United Church of Canada under the theme ‘ Legacy : 500 Years of Evangelization in the Americas ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 23 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 24 | In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine . |
| 25 | touched and turned by the everlasting sun . |
| 26 | The dead snakes were crushed and suffocated by the sheer weight of their fellows . |
| 27 | Mothers of Welsh infants of similar age were then recruited from the same areas of the city ; they were thus living in similar accommodation and served by the same health professionals . |
| 28 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 29 | Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia , Tubul , Great T'Phon and Jerakeen , the four giant elephants upon whose broad and star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests , garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven . |
| 30 | Thus the ideas formulated by scientists and mediated by the medical profession formed the framework within which all women , including active feminists ( most of whom were middle class ) , had to work . |