Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 2 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 3 | It is finally stated in the report that the police believed the rapes were carried out by the same man , who is described quite fully . |
| 4 | Detectives believe this attack was carried out by the same man who raped a student from Somerville college two months ago in public toilets in the city centre . |
| 5 | Commander David Tucker head of the anti-terrorist squad believes both attacks were carried out by the same IRA unit . |
| 6 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |
| 7 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 8 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 9 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 10 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 11 | The foreword is written jointly by a former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former Under secretary of the Navy . |
| 12 | It would seem that any other harmful fumes around would be drawn in by the same means , aerosols being a prime example . |
| 13 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 14 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 15 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 16 | The serious fraud office has been sent details of a business deal drawn up by the former chairman of Oxford United Kevin Maxwell , and the former managing director of Derby County . |
| 17 | Somehow that made the kidnap all the more obscene : as if the little family , broken yet strangely bound together by the same tragedy , had not suffered enough . |
| 18 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 19 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 20 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 21 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 22 | At 10.50 a.m. , Aldrich looked across at the two men who had entered quietly by the same door . |
| 23 | we notice the joints of beef in Tesco gone up by a few quid |
| 24 | gone up by a few quid from six pound odd to eight pound odd |
| 25 | So you 'll always know that , if your salary 's gone up by the same level , whenever you claim , it 's gon na be the same percentage as it was today . |
| 26 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 27 | There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 . |
| 28 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 29 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 30 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |