Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 2 | Captures the angry collapsing mood of the country as Allende 's left wing government is threatened and eventually deposed by a right wing junta . |
| 3 | The presentation was smoothly and effectively done by the experienced PR company which Garth Enterprises employed . |
| 4 | Bessie 's opinions on how babies should be cared for were given freely to Carrie and duly ignored by the young mother , who was aware that Bessie had never had children of her own . |
| 5 | An item in store and rarely seen by the public falls within the protected subject- matter : Durkin [ 1973 ] QB 786 ( CA ) . |
| 6 | It was attacked and badly damaged by a patrolling Hurricane , Flt.Lt . |
| 7 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 8 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 9 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 10 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 11 | But it 's a worthy attempt nevertheless and greatly assisted by the voluminous recording quality . |
| 12 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 13 | In a rather haphazard fashion , and greatly encouraged by the British , Roosevelt finally agreed in 1942 to set up the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) under the command of Colonel William Donovan . |
| 14 | Ultra-modern and apparently inspired by a Thirties liner , it houses JJ 's , the best night spot in town . |
| 15 | Stravinsky was then 28 , and much influenced by the gorgeous and sumptuous orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov , with whom he had studied for three years . |
| 16 | It was hilarious and much appreciated by the select audience of usherettes , theatre staff and cast . |
| 17 | The maximum of 30 had a marvellous evening , impeccably reported in the Standard and eagerly supported by the Senior Club 's officers , excepting the Artisans ' President , A. ( Archie ) R. Brakspear , who was unwell . |
| 18 | He had read with envious disbelief the gentle and ironic story of a village parish where the curates were entertained , fed , and generally spoilt by the female members of the congregation . |
| 19 | Domestic ovens are not constructed to take continual punishment : the door might be opened and closed over 50 times a day , frequently slammed shut and generally abused by the busy caterer . |
| 20 | Thus , the increased incidence of pancreatitis discharges may be a result of an increased number of recurrent episodes of pancreatitis , and not caused by an increased number of individual patients . |
| 21 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 22 | Even the local garage conformed to the general pattern and this was obviously one of those fortunate towns where the planners had insisted that the character of the place be preserved , and not submerged by the usual welter of national stores . |
| 23 | It is part of MI6 and thus controlled by the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | Mesmerised by this biblical travelogue , and deliciously warmed by the late afternoon sun , I wonder if my lightheadedness is caused by the euphoric sensation of time-travelling or by imminent physical collapse . |
| 25 | ET-1 is produced by transcription and translation as a 212-residue precursor ( prepro ) molecule , which is subsequently processed to ‘ big ET-1 ’ and finally cleaved by an endothelin-converting enzyme to ET-1 . |
| 26 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 27 | The aim , of course , is to have education dominated and totally controlled by the massive central bureaucracy of the Department of Education and Science which in turn is dictated to by a Minister of Education . |
| 28 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 29 | Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | Public-sector spending and employment were themselves heavily and deliberately constrained by the Conservative policy of ‘ rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ , which to many trade-unionists was part of the same process as de-industrialization . |