Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 2 | This game could be won or lost by one piece of magic . |
| 3 | ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where a right , duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale of goods by implication of law , it may ( subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ) be negatived or varied by express agreement , or by the course of dealing between the parties , or by such usage as binds both parties to the contract . ’ |
| 5 | Ministerial instructions may be modified or evaded by clever drafting of documents . |
| 6 | All have been affected by the Post-glacial rise of sea level , but in the second class this may have been accentuated or nullified by local land movements . |
| 7 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 8 | This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ . |
| 9 | New opportunities can not be designed and prescribed by one group of people , produced by another , and offered as discrete choices to ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 10 | In Mediterranean countries , particularly southern Italy , the triforium is omitted and replaced by solid wall decorated in mosaic or fresco painting . |
| 11 | Observing that orgone energy is attracted and absorbed by organic material whereas metal initially absorbs the energy and then repels it rapidly , he constructed a box with alternate layers of metal and organic material , starting with metal on the inside . |
| 12 | The firing is both preceded and followed by blatant cronyism . |
| 13 | Elean : A theme that recurs in your Soweto Stories is the theme of keeping the families together , not allowing their innate sense of solidarity with each other to be smashed and replaced by rampant individualism — on the other hand you show very sharply the negative side in this tradition , for example how it impacts on women . |
| 14 | This is concerned with the manufacture of records , music cassettes and compact discs ( generally known as ‘ product ’ ) in factories owned and operated by individual record companies . |
| 15 | The bridge , owned and protected by English Heritage , will eventually be rebuilt with the original stones , once they 've been recovered from the river bed . |
| 16 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 17 | Beatrice and Benedick can speak verse , but their love seems much more natural in prose , neither limited nor coarsened by that vehicle . |
| 18 | Rules which allow for a single symbol at a time to be written or replaced by another symbol or string of symbols ( eg T , N ) are known as " phrase-structures rules ' . |
| 19 | If industries in other countries were weakened or depleted by German domination , and if the single currency removed the competitiveness of weaker economies while the Social Charter , with its minimum wage , insulated German workers from competitively low wages abroad , then one could well imagine economic decline and rising unemployment on the periphery of the EC financing the German stranglehold . |
| 20 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 21 | We all take the use of coins for granted , but they have not been made or used by all metalworking societies . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the ‘ family ’ in this form is still explicitly and implicitly upheld and supported by social policy and the Child Support Act can be seen as another example of this . |
| 23 | Indeed , a mistrust about historical periods possessing commonplaces other than those selected and organised by critical inquiry undertaken for specific , if frequently unconscious , ideological ends is now the familiar assumption . |
| 24 | Then , by a very unlucky chance , we were seen and chased by two pirate ships . |
| 25 | Do n't miss this funny , poignant , visual production written and directed by acclaimed playwright John Godber . |
| 26 | Proteins were then denatured and renatured by sequential incubation ( 10 minutes per change ) with decreasing concentrations of Guanidine-HCL in 1 HBB plus 1mM DTT as follows : 6M ( 2 changes ) , 3M , 1.5M , 0.75M , 0.375M , 0.19M and finally back into 1 HBB plus 1mM DTT ( 2 changes ) . |
| 27 | In effect these procedures require , inter alia , the establishment of Chinese Wall informational barriers to ensure that inside information acquired by one arm of the firm is not transmitted and used by another arm of the financial entity . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , these reflections of local interests and relationships are , particularly in Britain , being increasingly overseen and overruled by central government . |
| 29 | This analysis was adopted and approved by this House and I do not intend to cast any doubt on it . |
| 30 | I hope you 'll pick out what 's got to come from the East Midlands National airport , can I remind you that a list of that has already been made and passed by this council when there was not a Conservative majority and that had on it about seventy traffic calming schemes bottlenecks 'll be done all over this county which in themselves save accidents and save lives . |