Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun prp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 2 | Waldron Buffaloes had played a marathon the night before , finally got squeezed out by the L.A. boys . |
| 3 | Erm , we need to value those assets , and the cost of back- work being carried out by the London Buildings Consultancy would be nineteen thousand pounds , some twenty pounds per property . |
| 4 | Laura was able to have the life-saving £350,000 operation carried out by the Pittsburg surgeons thanks to the generosity of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | Other such developments were carried out by the Ashworth brothers at Bank Top , Egerton and New Eagley , where estates were provided with schools , libraries and chapels , and each house had its own garden and piped water . |
| 6 | Payton , failed to return and was shot down by the A.A. defences at Hassani . |
| 7 | On April 14 a report on the attacks drawn up by the UN offices in Tehran and Baghdad was submitted to UN Security Council . |
| 8 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 9 | The one on Parson 's Green was brought down by the ARP boys and packed tidily away , and then we were granted an AA gun , all to ourselves . |
| 10 | The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century . |
| 11 | In the Wilson — Heath period of corporatism , local government had swollen in power and importance , especially after the massive eight metropolitan authorities set up by the Heath-Walker reforms in 1973 . |
| 12 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
| 13 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 14 | The easternmost area of the site covers 144 acres , includes one of the water basins and the locks , and was taken over by the Medway Ports Authority ( ‘ the ports authority ’ ) . |
| 15 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 16 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 17 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |