Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Once the spit starts to form material is pushed along it by longshore drift , thus leading to its continued growth until it reaches water so deep that wave action is destructive .
2 Agreements were also signed on Kaliningrad ( administratively part of Russia but separated from it by Lithuanian territory ) , and on the rights of each population in the other republic .
3 Skelton Village and the area of D thirty nine and D forty form no part of the built area of York , but are separated from it by open country .
4 And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living .
5 ‘ The Bank of England ( in this Act referred to as ‘ the Bank ’ ) shall have the powers conferred on it by this Act and the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers .
6 In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms .
7 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement .
8 It was as long ago as 1863 that Lister pointed out , ‘ the real cause of the coagulation of blood is the influence exerted on it by ordinary matter … the contact of which effects a disposition to coagulate ’ .
9 Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied .
10 With alarming speed a large moth dashed at the candle , repeatedly and frantically , as if attached to it by elastic cord .
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