Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Constitution is put into enforcement , and then the supreme People 's Council shall be established with the representatives who will be elected by general election which shall be carried out by the provisions of the Constitution . |
| 4 | More than 70 British beaches have been omitted from the latest edition of the Marine Conservation Society 's authoritative Good Beach Guide after new research suggests that waters previously considered safe may in fact be hazardous to health The research , carried out by the Departments of Health and Environment , reveals that previous UK standards were too lax . |
| 5 | These ratings of a specific meaning were made possible by a two-stage assessment procedure carried out by the members of the research team , rather than using self-rating questionnaire methods . |
| 6 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |
| 7 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 8 | Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off . |
| 9 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 10 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 11 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 12 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 13 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 14 | Khomeini asserted that many of the reforms were " perhaps drawn up by the spies of the Jews and the Zionists … |
| 15 | In some systems of law the disability of persons under full age is helped out by the powers of the parent or guardian , who can represent the child , and , by acting on his behalf or giving concurrence to his acts , can make dispositions of his property and contracts binding on him . |
| 16 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 17 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 18 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 19 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 20 | This implication was later firmed up by the Sages of the Second Commonwealth to become a fully-fledged rabbinic declaration of exemption embracing nearly all of the positive commandments whose fulfilment depended upon a specific time of the day or year — an exemption which rapidly came to be viewed in terms of actual exclusion ( Kidd . |
| 21 | Much of the significance of ancient sites comes from their use for ritual purposes , and this is borne out by the survivals of ancient traditions . |
| 22 | The lack of women at the top is borne out by the findings of the latest Arthur Andersen Corporate Register , published by Hemmington Scott . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 24 | The slow progress of the campaign to put women into top executive positions is borne out by the results of an Economist survey carried out while compiling the 1993 Crawford 's Directory of City Connections . |
| 25 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 26 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 27 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 28 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 29 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |
| 30 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |