Example sentences of "and [vb pp] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tricks could be played , points made by drawing a drooping banner so that certain letters and words were obscured and altered by the folded fabric . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |
| 3 | The second section of the reader outlines some of the diverse phenomena that are often lumped together and explained by the single category of racism . |
| 4 | The picture wall in his underground burrow seemed to absorb him ; it was a holo of the South Seas , forested hillsides plunging down to warm waters and punctuated by the vivid exclamation marks of birds . |
| 5 | One of the pellet samples contained several small ungulate bones , probably from the bush duiker , and these are shown here with evidence of digestion , the surfaces of the bone broken and corroded by the digestive action of the owl . |
| 6 | The occasional protests by staff through the years over pay and conditions had usually been dealt with quickly , abrasions salved and healed by the implicit belief that matters would eventually improve , if not tomorrow , then certainly by the day after — and that one was still having more fun than was to be had almost anywhere else anyway . |
| 7 | Instead of lyric participation in common cultural activity , the French have been numbed , divided and tranquillised by the cultural politics of bread and circuses . |
| 8 | It was safe from air attack and shielded by the Karochooq mountain mass from satellite photography that would tell the story of the purpose for which this rock cave was fashioned . |
| 9 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 10 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 11 | It 's a story mirrored in thousands of homes throughout the region and highlighted by the Labour Party 's Home Affairs Team . |
| 12 | Members are taught by seniors as well as junior instructors who are supervised and examined by the chief instructor , Mr Norman Baker , an ex-equitation instructor from the Metropolitan Mounted Police . |
| 13 | Sucralfate or bFGF was dissolved in saline and given by the intragastric route in a volume of 1 ml or infused subcutaneously at 4ml/hour . |
| 14 | Ifor was loved and revered by the small brother whom he in turn saw as the family 's great hope of true escape , a conqueror , the one who would show them . |
| 15 | We are considering an institution supposedly deeply loved and revered by the British public almost to the point of mystical attachment . |
| 16 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 17 | On the one hand he is conceived and baptised by the Holy Spirit , and promises the gift.of that Spirit to his followers after his death . |
| 18 | For the designation of the state as ‘ a tool , is said to imply that it is an inert object which can be moulded and manipulated by the ruling class ; and this in turn is said to carry the misleading connotation that the ruling class has a ‘ will ’ . |
| 19 | They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ? |
| 20 | Of course , the identification was not complete , for as we have seen , Tocqueville attached greater importance to the democratic movement , animated and sustained by the middle class rather than the working class ; but the labour movement was itself represented by its adherents as a prolongation of the democratic movement . |
| 21 | Thus the term planning encompasses not only those places whose form shows clearly that an overall scheme lay behind the layout of streets , but also towns which , whatever form they acquired , were pushed into existence and developed by the active support of individuals or institutions . |
| 22 | This new framework is both endorsed and supplemented by the Utting report of last August . |
| 23 | The resulting Mosrite Ventures guitars were funded by the group themselves , and designed by the simple expedient of tracing around a Strat and flipping the paper over . |
| 24 | On Dec. 29 presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan and won by the incumbent President , Islam Karimov , reportedly with 86 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | On returning , dazed and impressed by the sheer ineffectualness of man amid this inferno of mat–riel , Jubert wrote humbly : |
| 26 | The workshop , which was co-sponsored by WACC and organised by the African Council for Communication Education ( ACCE ) , provided a blueprint for future similar events throughout the continent . |
| 27 | Sponsored by the Royal Mint and organised by the British Art Medal Society , around 350 delegates attended the conference at the British Museum which concentrated primarily on the theme of the relationship between medals and drawings . |
| 28 | The survey examines the industrial espionage practiced by the French in England through the eighteenth century , almost invariably directed and organised by the French state , and the many important French administrators , technologists , scientists and industrialists involved . |
| 29 | The seminar , called ‘ BS 5750 , A Necessity for the 1990s ’ and organised by the Welsh Development Agency in conjunction with BSI Quality Assurance , Wales Quality Centre and TARGED , is aimed mainly at management . |
| 30 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |