Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 2 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 9 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 10 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 11 | SunSoft Inc 's all-important solution for running Microsoft Corp Windows applications on its watershed Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system is reportedly being developed outside by a little-known 10-person firm called Praxsys Technologies Inc in Norwood , Massachusetts . |
| 12 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 13 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 14 | The new Marxist government was saved only by a Cuban expeditionary force of at least 20,000 men , with logistical back-up from the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 16 | There was no need for a water-filled moat , although there was a drawbridge , for the nearest stack to land was separated therefrom by a deep tidal creek with beetling walls . |
| 17 | Lang confirmed that a report due to be produced soon by a Scottish Office-COSLA working party on the internal management of councils is likely to include initiatives like American-style elector mayors and cabinet-style management for the new authorities . |
| 18 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 19 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 20 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 23 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |
| 24 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |
| 25 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 26 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 27 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 28 | This is usually accompanied either by a full written report , or by a brief report with a fuller version lodged with each departmental office , if the complete report is lengthy . |
| 29 | His books have sold more than sixty million copies , but today 's anniversary is being marked quietly by a few devoted readers . |
| 30 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |