Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 3 | The People 's Militia has indeed been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 4 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 5 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 6 | Without the enormous costs run up by the Royal Navy vessel , the Yard would have made profits of £6.5m . |
| 7 | Despite three late wickets for Kuiper and four catches for skipper Wessels , the South Africans ' target always looked to be a distant one , and the problem worsened with the early loss of Wessels , run out by the predatory Arthurton . |
| 8 | Then there 's a water butt up by the back door ; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch . |
| 9 | These are arrived at using criteria set down by the Joint Negotiating Committee for Chief Officers of Local Authorities . |
| 10 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 11 | Other studies which offer recommendations for buildings used by visually handicapped people in the community include those set out by the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1981 ) which give a six-point plan to maximise safety and efficiency in the use of buildings , namely : |
| 12 | These changes followed from recommendations set out by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) in its Eighth Report of 1986–7 ( HC 98 ) Members said that they wanted documents tailored more specifically to Parliament 's needs in its consideration of departments ' expenditure proposals and put forward three proposals ( Cm. 375 ) . |
| 13 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 14 | You go round by the pleached walk . ’ |