Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 2 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 3 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 4 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 5 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 6 | From there on , the journey offered a scenic rest , broken only by the occasional derelict engine houses of long abandoned tin and copper mines , until St Michael 's Mount comes into view . |
| 7 | Where earlier in the day had prevailed an exercise in organised pandemonium — the sawing of wood for an extra set buttress , the clanking of lights being swung into position , and everywhere the ringing cacophony of cross conversation — now there is almost a deafening silence , broken only by the odd apologetic cough as the minutes tick towards 8.30 . |
| 8 | The two rabbits waited in silence , broken only by the continual nervous fidgeting of Fiver . |
| 9 | That nakedness was broken only by the slim white garter belt around her perfect waist and the pure silk stockings which encased her shapely legs . |
| 10 | The elections to the three chambers of the Croatian assembly , all conducted on a multiparty basis in two rounds on April 22 and May 6-7 , were won overwhelmingly by the right-wing nationalist Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) , led by Franjo Tudjman . |
| 11 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 12 | Robin Smith 's power play against India at Perth ( Week 1 ) and the demolition job England did on Pakistan at Adelaide ( Week 2 ) put them into the favourites ' spot at the same time as Australia absorbed one stunning setback after another , alleviated only by the thrilling one-run victory over India at Brisbane . |
| 13 | The forlorn street scenes that ornament front and back , in black and grey monochrome , alleviated only by the red-brown used for the author 's name and title , return us to Minton 's scenes of devastation of the early 1940s . |
| 14 | All the while , the self-regulatory framework , dominated largely by the extra legal rules of the City Panel on Take-overs and Mergers and the Council of the Securities Industry ( CSI ) , was generally in not much better shape and made reform unlikely . |
| 15 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 16 | The first round of elections to the 250-seat Georgian Supreme Soviet , on Oct. 28 , was won convincingly by the Round Table-Free Georgia bloc of pro-independence parties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 22 | He says : ‘ I think that number will increase once the promised summer tax review is carried out by the new Conservative government . |
| 23 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 24 | Until its formation , the duties of the People 's Council would be carried out by the Supreme Soviet and the President . |
| 25 | This is being used to investigate the incidence of taxation and benefits at the level of individual households , building on the work already carried out by the Central Statistical Office . |
| 26 | In the UK the most familiar redistributive budget study is that carried out by the Central Statistical Office and published as Economic Trends . |
| 27 | Earlier this week Clacton , unemployment blackspot of the South East , was tipped to win grant aid following research carried out by the General Municipal Boilermakers ' Union . |
| 28 | It complements in a modest way the safety programmes and the ‘ safeguards ’ monitoring carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency from its headquarters in Vienna . |
| 29 | According to a report by the Senate committee on violence and pacification which was monitoring acts of political violence carried out by the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) , the Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amarú — MRTA ) , right-wing death squads and other extremist groups and also , in 1989 , links between rebel groups and drug traffickers , it was estimated that a total of 3,198 people were killed as a result of such activity in the course of 1989 , compared with 1,986 in 1988 . |
| 30 | Though the election was carried out by the usual X-vote system which provided scope for tactical voting and complaints about vote splitting , it was generally accepted as a crushing defeat for Sunningdale . |