Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it .
2 These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are .
3 In 1979 , a survey carried out by the Manpower Services Commission showed that 65 per cent of those people unemployed for more than one year were over thirty-five years of age .
4 Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy .
5 Colleagues fear her killing was an extrajudicial execution carried out by the security forces .
6 The lowliest of railway jobs were carried out by the mountain Indians or the men of slightly mixed blood , the cholos .
7 A complete refurbishment programme carried out by the family owners has produced a particularly good standard of accommodation for a hotel of this class .
8 Until recently no one seems to have considered that in addition to filtering lymph , the fluid may also be pushed along by the lymph nodes — despite these structures being the most prominent features of the system .
9 Canals did not create new towns ; those built up by the railway companies , such as Swindon , Crewe or Eastleigh , being concerned with the building of locomotives and rolling stock , had no parallel .
10 Trading in stock options and index futures suspended on June 25 , 1989 , following a stock market scandal [ see p. 36732 ] was resumed on Oct. 27 under new regulations drawn up by the capital markets regulator , the Comissao de Valores Mobiliários ( CVM ) , to prevent price manipulation and speculation .
11 The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 .
12 Fortunately , the breed had clear guidelines on which to develop drawn up by the breed clubs in Germany .
13 Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body .
14 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
15 A code of practice has been drawn up by the fuel industries to protect you .
16 She arrived in a big BMW of the type the East End villains drive now that all the old Jags have been bought up by the TV stations to make cops and robbers series .
17 Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week .
18 The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation .
19 The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations .
20 The Trades Union Congress had called the strike in order to support the coal miners who had been locked out by the coal owners , who were attempting to impose wage reductions upon them .
21 After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town .
22 Beneath the chandeliers only the Louis XVI table , the Queen in zinc ( for patriotic reasons ) , a few objects in electro-metal such as Fame Scattering Petals on Shakespeare 's Tomb , with the heads of certain men of letters , and a few stuffed birds in the rubble of plaster and brickwork brought down by the sepoy cannons , remained .
23 They passed the Littlegate of St Paul 's where a lay brother was feeding a group of lepers with mouldy bread and rancid pork slices , as laid down by the city fathers who judged such food actually helped them .
24 He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move .
25 Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far .
26 Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy .
27 Many quickly join relatives or friends living here , while the rest go to transitional camps set up by the Land governments .
28 The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions and is still funded by the trade unions .
29 But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries .
30 Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs .
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