Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationalization of the railways , the creation of the state holding company INI , the acquisition of a major state shareholding in the telephone company , were carried out by a repressive authoritarian regime which had crushed organized labour . |
| 2 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 3 | Some five years ago , a survey was carried out by a major British company on this subject . |
| 4 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 5 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 6 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 7 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 8 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 9 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 10 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 11 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 12 | Since the goddess herself was not permitted to die , the annual death and rebirth were acted out by a young male Year-spirit , a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort , and represented the important principle of discontinuity in nature . |
| 13 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 14 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |
| 15 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 16 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 17 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 18 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 19 | Mourning over , the package is rounded off by a stunning double flourish ; a cod-Broadway instrumental reprise on ‘ Argentina ’ , followed by that speech in full , and it 's the most serene , quietly-spoken rant you 'll ever hear . |
| 20 | BOB MARLEY 's posthumous Top Five hit , ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , will be followed up by a new single next week . |
| 21 | According to K.M. Briggs , hobyahs were ‘ terrified of dogs , and with good reason , for they were finally all eaten up by a large black dog ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 22 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 23 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 24 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) Upon accession taking effect , the total debts of the central budget of the GDR which have accumulated up to this date shall be taken over by a federal Special Fund without legal capacity , which will meet the obligations arising from debt servicing . |
| 26 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 27 | More recently , the question has been raised as to whether it is contrary to the public interest for a private company to be taken over by a foreign state-owned company , given the privatization objectives of the UK government . |
| 28 | One wall was taken up by a great open fireplace , more suggestive of a baronial hall than a Georgian living-room . |
| 29 | According to Seekings , the doors had been removed and part of the interior was taken up by a huge extra fuel tank . |
| 30 | I 'm being beaten up by a jumbled-up rainbow-coloured ME . |