Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 2 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 3 | The point is , only one of the two can come out of his little door at any one time , not just because that would make impossible weather , but because the two little men are joined together by a metal bar : one has to stay in if the other one is out . |
| 4 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 5 | Its chairman was Sir George ( later Lord ) May , who had spent nearly half a century in the Prudential Assurance Company , broken only by a wartime interlude administering soldiers ' canteens . |
| 6 | Darren Anderton slipped past Tom Cowan 's lethargic tackle and his low cross from the right was slotted in by the England player . |
| 7 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 8 | The main areas of fighting were in the north-western provinces of Battambang ( especially in the Sisophon area ) , Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap-Oddar Meanchey ( especially around Chikreng ) , but the guerrillas , dominated militarily by the Khmer Rouge component , also claimed victories in Kampot and Kompong Speu in the south and in the central provinces of Kompong Chhnang and Kompong Thom , especially around Kompong Svay and Stoung . |
| 9 | In June and July there were the ‘ strawberry specials ’ , 30 tonnes of strawberries being carried daily by the Midland Railway from the Vale of Evesham to London . |
| 10 | The raft race was one of the final events of the 13th Mersey River Festival , which is organised annually by the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 11 | The other reputed brother , Maelmore , is attested only by the Orkneyinga saga , and the relationship should be viewed with scepticism . |
| 12 | In her statement to MPs , Mrs Bottomley said the reforms would be carried through by an implementation group , and a London initiative zone would make sure the reforms cover the most deprived areas of the city . |
| 13 | The next afternoon Colin was carried downstairs by a man servant , and put in his wheelchair outside the front door . |
| 14 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 15 | Hunt reported on 14th December , 1858 that he had found that the site was just adequate , but he could not make a precise calculation until the accommodation requirements had been considered further by the India Office and the space required by the Foreign Office had been settled . |
| 16 | Punchy thermals which delight the wings of gliders and do not trouble planes with a bit of weighty metal behind them are no longer conjured up by the morning sun to drive trepid microlight flyers back to earth . |
| 17 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 18 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 19 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 22 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 23 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 24 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 25 | The Range Rover came into Belfast and was picked up by an army escort of two personnel-carriers on the outskirts . |
| 26 | He was picked up by an RAF helicopter at Crowdy , near Davidstow . |
| 27 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 28 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 29 | As the ribber needle moves back , the stitch on it comes over the latch of the ribber needle and is picked up by the transfer needle . |
| 30 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |