Example sentences of "and [verb] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis of that conception must be that citizenship begins at twenty-one ; that up to that age all boys and girls are wards of the State and are to be regarded as in a state of tutelage ; and that during these twenty-one years no effort must be spared to give each one according to his capacities , and limited by no other considerations , the fullest opportunity to develop every innate power . |
| 2 | His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night . |
| 3 | The traditional geometric values of the model are handled and checked by the functional relationships and used in the pictorial constructions . |
| 4 | It was the wildest party Britain had seen , and the media had a field day with a revelling of nude and painted bodies , cavorting to fine music under a dense cloud of cannabis smoke and punctuated by the occasional screams of an acid drop gone wrong . |
| 5 | The artist has created a marvellous pattern out of the limbs of beasts and men superposed in parallel planes stepped back to the ground and punctuated by the frontal heads of the near oxen ; a sophisticated and brilliantly successful design . |
| 6 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 7 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 8 | They were recently bought and reinstated by the present owners of Waddon . |
| 9 | The logical standard took a few years to agree but , in the late 1980s , was finalised and ratified by the International Standards Organisation as ISO 9660 . |
| 10 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 11 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 12 | Sunderland have a better goal difference than third-bottom Oxford United , who are three points behind , and only a catastrophic series of results in their last three matches and upsets by the other teams below them , would produce a nightmare eve-of-Wembley relegation scenario . |
| 13 | Any other subdivisions can be accessed and manipulated by the logical operations of 2.3 . |
| 14 | It is quite wrong to posit a pathological process , as Aristotle does with his theory of katharsis , whereby the audience is purged of pity and fear by the solemn events of the play . |
| 15 | It is likely that instabilities similar to those occurring in ‘ perfect crystal ’ motion again occur , but promoted and modified by the spatial imperfections . |
| 16 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 17 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 18 | In mid-tune , the organist stopped , grabbed his jacket , and surrounded by the two policemen , began to leave . |
| 19 | The Board of Directors was appointed by the Ministry of Transport after consultation with , and nominated by the National Ports Council , the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and Firth of Forth Shipowners Association , the British Shipper 's Council and Forth Ports Estuary Committee , Edinburgh Corporation , Buckhaven and Methil Burntisland and Kirkcaldy Town Councils , representatives of the Organised Labour , plus two Principal Officers of the Authority Management Group . |
| 20 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 21 | Election campaigns are short , sharp , and dominated by the political parties . |
| 22 | Politically the life of the peasants was very parochial and dominated by the local headmen , the sheikhs and omdas , who served as collaborators of the state . |
| 23 | The company 's structure was very hierarchical , centralized and dominated by the functional departments , on the French model . |
| 24 | As for the anti-Francoist labour movement , it was severely restricted by its illegal and , consequently , clandestine nature , and weakened by the internal wranglings of the exiled Leftist political parties to which it was linked . |
| 25 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
| 26 | As a result of two consultation days held to examine possibilities for greater integration in residential provision for children and young people with special needs , a series of recommendations were made to and accepted by the Social Services Committee in January 1987 . |
| 27 | Economic considerations are mediated through the minds of human beings who live in a social world , which means that the impact of economics is crucially conditioned by ideology — a notion which has been explored and expanded by the Marxist theorists to whom we now turn . |
| 28 | For two weeks all these were sorted , evaluated and priced by the two teams . |
| 29 | The festival was a theatre-and-music fiesta devised for the villagers and attended by the experimental cognoscenti of the world , many of them Jews . |
| 30 | This is defined and regulated by The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 . |