Example sentences of "[vb pp] out by a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 2 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 3 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 4 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 5 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 6 | Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year-spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature . |