Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the other Pyrenean divisions , Béarn is medieval ; this was once the largest of the furiously independent mountain states , a viscounty which came into existence as early as 820 , was at different moments of its history the vassal of Aragon and England , became joined by marriage with the powerful viscounty of Foix and with Basse-Navarre , and finally , when Henri IV , ‘ le grand Béarnais ’ , became king of the whole of France in 1589 , was integrated with the Crown . |
| 2 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 3 | Sukarno became fascinated by Hartini , wife of an oil magnate . |
| 4 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 5 | When termites leave the nest to forage on dead plant material , they can remain hidden by building tunnels from the nest to the food supplies . |
| 6 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 7 | And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified . |
| 8 | Following the Industrial Revolution , many trees became blackened by smoke and on these the speckled moths were suddenly highly conspicuous . |
| 9 | The NME established itself quickly , even if the musical world it reflected was to remain dominated by Geraldo , Humphrey Lyttleton , Johnny Dankworth , differing varieties of big band jazz , and the showbiz gossip direct from ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ ( Denmark St ) , where the paper had its offices ) as reported by a variety of wackily pseudonymous hacks such as ‘ The Slider ’ and ‘ The Alleycat ’ . |
| 10 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 11 | As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed . |
| 12 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 13 | In one of the largest bonfire events in the region , over 2,000 people crammed into Central Park , Wallasey , for a fireworks display organised by Wirral borough council . |
| 14 | The village became surrounded by fields and pasture land . |
| 15 | William Edwards , who died in Halifax in January 1808 , was characterized by his final obituarist in the Gentleman 's Magazine as ‘ of no common estimation for the energies of his mind ’ and his creative approach to bookbinding has ensured that his name will remain esteemed by collectors and historians of the book . |
| 16 | If the specimen is immersed face-down , bubbles can not be released and remain attracted by surface tension to the surface , locally impeding further reaction and giving a very uneven etch . |
| 17 | One lived surrounded by dangers . |
| 18 | I think he went to visit my mother and got incarcerated by accident . |
| 19 | However , although he made some valuable and technically superb images there , he became disillusioned by travel , and came home to London for good . |
| 20 | He seemed to regard the exchange purely as a joke , but Marise continued to glower beneath her perfectly drawn black brows , and Faye too looked irritated by Greg 's words . |
| 21 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 22 | This was also the reality of the covert world , fuelled by information others did not know relayed by carriers whose real identity was hidden ; a world of secret agents , mystery papers , dreadful imaginings and improbable suspicions . |
| 23 | They called for the resignation , and the replacement by civilians , of Defence Minister Gen. Nicolae Militaru and Interior Minister Gen. Mihai Ghitac , both considered tainted by association with the Ceausescu regime , and the purging of ex-members of Ceausescu 's Securitate secret police allegedly still running both ministries . |
| 24 | As our society has become more affluent , the number of people suffering from allergies has polluted by traffic fumes , our homes are centrally heated , double glazed and carpeted to the delight of the house dust mite . |
| 25 | Although in fact ultra vires , taxing many men worth less than £2 on goods must have been considered justified by circumstances , for their numbers alone made them an important element in the local community . |
| 26 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 27 | The Times claims its circulation has soared by 20pc since it launched the circulation war on Monday . |
| 28 | The number of manufacturing jobs has fallen by 11% and now stands at about 5m . |
| 29 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 30 | The level of graduate recruitment among the top eight accountancy firms has fallen by 9% over the past year , according to a survey of firms carried out by ACCOUNTANCY ( see table below ) . |