Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 2 | Tucked in by the side of the club was a tiny house , reached via a narrow path about three feet wide . |
| 3 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 4 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 5 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 6 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 7 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 8 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | The business is now carried on by the sons of the original proprietor who trade under the name of ‘ Joseph Wright & Sons , ’ and employ from six to seven hundred men . |
| 10 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 11 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 12 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 13 | Harnoncourt ( ) , on the other hand , is let down by the unpredictability of his choral forces , and Gardiner ( ) is all sheen and polish , but misses the sense of the ceremonial which lies at the heart of his this most perfect of all choral masterpieces . |
| 14 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 15 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 16 | The expansion of the surface was what was causing the pebbles to move away from hers they were being carried along by the movement of the sheet . |
| 17 | This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction , or the sales patter of a dealer . |
| 18 | And now she was being carried along by the impetus of those two decisions . |
| 19 | Again the work was completed in Oxford , and was carried through by the leadership of a man who made no mistakes in seeking chemical collaboration or in letting matters drop for lack of it . |
| 20 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 21 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 22 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 23 | The flows are covered with large , high wrinkles and ridges , concentric with the edges of the flow , where the stiff surface layer was crinkled up by the pressure of more material arriving from behind — rather like a pahoehoe surface on a basalt lava , but on a much bigger scale . |
| 24 | When working with mice in an isolator they may be picked up by the base of their tail using a pair of large forceps with rubber sleeves on their tips . |
| 25 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 26 | ‘ And the commission would not agree to postpone payment until slaughter unless we could guarantee that it would be picked up by the holder of the animal when it was ten months old . ’ |
| 27 | The paint is picked up by the texture of the paper and the previous layers of paint . |
| 28 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 29 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 30 | The reaction is speeded up by the presence of enzymes , hence the name enzymic browning . |