Example sentences of "and [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 2 | Viewed from so high up , their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front . |
| 3 | Other territories were to be added to the Japanese empire but some were insignificant in terms of size , and elsewhere the occupation was short-lived and constrained by the exigencies of war . |
| 4 | It seems a sensible conclusion that the strengths of this technique lie not in the method itself , but in the experience and skill of the person who employs it , and the extent to which these are known and respected by the beneficiaries of the study . |
| 5 | It was strongly protected by walls completed in 1618 and occupied by the descendants of the Scottish Presbyterians ‘ planted ’ there earlier in the century . |
| 6 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 7 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 8 | The siege of Jaffna fort in the north of Sri Lanka , where some 250 government troops were still trapped and surrounded by the forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , continued throughout August . |
| 9 | The mounds are clearly distinguishable and surrounded by the remains of a moat which still retains water . |
| 10 | The latter are also more in tune with the idea of internal markets and the future role of authorities , less identified with and dominated by the aspirations of providers . |
| 11 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 12 | To some extent , of course , these other agencies are often filtered through the family and evaluated by the parents on behalf of the children : the mother may ‘ censor ’ the amount and kind of television that enters the home , or parents may discourage , with varying degrees of subtlety , their children 's choice of certain ‘ undesirable ’ friends . |
| 13 | When Alexander the Great ( 356–323BC ) was invading the cities of India he found therein may sacred snakes which were kept in caves and worshipped by the Indians with great devotion . |
| 14 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 15 | Around three trains per week were accepted by this shop , all carrying horse-drawn vehicles , coming from Goods Depots all over the country : Camden , Broad Street , Curzon Street etc , whereas it was the rule that road motors came and went under their own power delivered and accepted by the drivers from the depots concerned . |
| 16 | 8.1 In the event that the Secretary of State shall reject the Proposal either generally or as respects the proposed funding or participation of any proposed Party in the Project or if the Grant Offer Letter shall not have been issued and accepted by the Parties within six months of the date of execution hereof , then upon such rejection or the expiration of such six month period the Project shall , unless otherwise agreed , be deemed abandoned , the Proposal shall be withdrawn and any rights hereunder shall be deemed to have been terminated and each Party shall be entitled to require each other Party forthwith to deliver up and return to it all Technical Information and all other information supplied by it in connection with the Proposal together with all copies thereof in any form in the possession of such other Parties or any of its Related companies . |
| 17 | Only in A.D. 73 , decimated by starvation and threatened by the Romans with a large-scale general assault , did the defenders of the citadel commit mass suicide . |
| 18 | The play is directed by Paulette Randall and presented by The Daughters of Oshun : Angela Anderson , Logan McGeary , Remi Easom , Tselane Tambo , Storme Webber and Sonee D Baker . |
| 19 | The succession system and the transfer of power are fully covered and secured by the provisions of the constitution . |
| 20 | The joint sitting of the Councils of Heads of State and Heads of Government in Bishkek was chaired by Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan and attended by the Presidents of Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Russia , Byelarus , Ukraine and Uzbekistan , the acting President of Tajikistan and a representative of the Turkmen President , absent due to ill health . |
| 21 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 22 | Kelly was still upset and dazed by the events of her first day back at work . |
| 23 | I am prepared to answer at once : ‘ Why Christ , of course , and our love for him which is fed and watered by the prayers of his people in his Church . ’ |
| 24 | the kind of graceful , tolerant , sleepy boy who is showered with favours and crowned with all the laurels , who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part , without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others . |
| 25 | Thus , too , the " " complyn " " in this passage , the last service of the monastic day , matches the " " laudes " " sung out by the bells and sung by the friars in Oxford as Nicholas and Alison consummate their passion . |
| 26 | Now the advantage to longer-tailed males will increase , as they are both fitter and preferred by the females of the population . |
| 27 | This tiny movement is transmitted and amplified by the atoms of the protein to the three other iron-porphyrin sites on the haemoglobin molecule , which in turn , are able to bind oxygen more quickly . |
| 28 | an escape of electricity stored and used by the defendants in working their tramcars , interfered with the sending of messages by the plaintiffs through their submarine cable . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life . |
| 30 | Over the next decade that prophetic vision was made real as the landscape of Irish politics underwent revolutionary change at the hands of men and women who had been moulded and inspired by the events of 1916 . |