Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] by the [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 | The presentation was smoothly and effectively done by the experienced PR company which Garth Enterprises employed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An item in store and rarely seen by the public falls within the protected subject- matter : Durkin [ 1973 ] QB 786 ( CA ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it 's a worthy attempt nevertheless and greatly assisted by the voluminous recording quality . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stravinsky was then 28 , and much influenced by the gorgeous and sumptuous orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov , with whom he had studied for three years . |
| 10 | It was hilarious and much appreciated by the select audience of usherettes , theatre staff and cast . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is part of MI6 and thus controlled by the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thoroughly taken aback by the superb élan of the French attack coming at them with steel glinting grey in the snowy twilight , and further unnerved by the early death of their commander , the German force now fell back . |
| 22 | Moreover the armies of all West European States tended to be slow-moving , tied to fixed magazines and supply depots and further restricted by the ever-present fear of desertion . |
| 23 | In this way the original window apertures ‘ read ’ satisfactorily as the high level ‘ extension ’ of lower , squatter openings , rather in the manner that , in the internal view of a cathedral nave , the triforium openings of the nave arcade are vertically extended and handsomely terminated by the high-level clerestory windows . |
| 24 | He 's less interested in spending hours scowling sulky into his bedroom mirror and more fascinated by the rigorous training Method acting provides . |
| 25 | Feudalistic China remained locked in the past and bore the seeds of its own decline , eventually being overpowered and nearly destroyed by the blue' cultures . |
| 26 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 27 | His vanity was exemplified by his taking a house at 36 Little St Martin 's Street ( once Sir Isaac Newton 's , and later rented by the celebrated Dr Burney and his daughter Frances , Madame D'Arblay , author of the once popular novel Evalina ) which was far beyond his means . |
| 28 | It is from Zakarpatská Ukrajina , the Czech Ukraine or sub-Carpathian Ruthenia , first annexed by Hungary and later taken by the Soviet Union and never given back at the end of the war in 1945 . |
| 29 | Subdued and also cowed by The Fat Controller 's manner of consummate self-assurance . |
| 30 | There were no bids for a large postcard piece by Gilbert and George ( lot 360 , est. £9,000–12,000 ) , nor for Tony Cragg 's ‘ Yard ’ ( lot 378 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , an important granite sculpture dating from 1988 and formerly owned by the late Sebastian Walker . |