Example sentences of "and [verb] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Order Act of 1936 was passed by Parliament to control political rallies and marches by the British Union of Fascists and the counter-demonstrations which such rallies provoked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 8 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Instead of lyric participation in common cultural activity , the French have been numbed , divided and tranquillised by the cultural politics of bread and circuses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's a story mirrored in thousands of homes throughout the region and highlighted by the Labour Party 's Home Affairs Team . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We are considering an institution supposedly deeply loved and revered by the British public almost to the point of mystical attachment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | They were fledged and flown by the second week in February , is this a record ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Given the difficulties of monetary base control , would you expect M0 and broader measures of the money supply , such as M4 , to rise and fall by the same percentage as each other ? |
| 26 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 27 | This new framework is both endorsed and supplemented by the Utting report of last August . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On returning , dazed and impressed by the sheer ineffectualness of man amid this inferno of mat–riel , Jubert wrote humbly : |