Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By formally merging , companies could continue their old practices within the merged company and take their chance if they got investigated by the MMC . |
| 2 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 3 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |
| 4 | They feel threatened by the two alternative prospects — move or take redundancy . |
| 5 | Registers will roll until elections are announced and then when elections are announced it will be the closing date for that particular election and polling cards will immediately be issued with massive publicity around them so that people who do n't get polling cards , discover that they 're not on registers and will still have time because they 've qualified by the qualifying date to get themselves entered onto registers within a week of the election taking place . |
| 6 | The papal curia acted much as the curia regis and the cardinals became primarily officers of state and administrators who could be used as ambassadors or legates — a position they had reached by the early years of the twelfth century . |
| 7 | In the Exchequer , as we have seen , they had come by the sixteenth century to be usual even for so important an officer as the Chancellor . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the base of their power lay within the territory which they had acquired by the late 530's . |
| 9 | But although they had vanished by the late 1950s , together with beggars from most European stations , the importunate begging hand thrust through the window of the railway carriage remains common throughout much of the Third World . |
| 10 | But this is the first time they have attacked by the very people supposed to be the most enthusiastic about them . |