Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 2 | From two furlongs out , the well-backed and fancied maiden Adam Smith was the only serious threat but the older horse , vigorously shaken up by Steve Cauthen , put him firmly in his place . |
| 3 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 4 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 5 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 6 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 7 | This was effectively carried through by the strong Liberal government elected in 1906 in the Trade Disputes Act of that year . |
| 8 | because the work is more effectively carried out by a single-purpose organization rather than by a government department with a wide range of functions ; |
| 9 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 10 | A long clearence from defence , eventually picked up by Gary Bull , who slid past a slippery Anderson , judged it well past the keeper to poke home his 18th of the season . |
| 11 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 12 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 13 | They were badly caught out by Wednesday night 's opinion poll results , which suggested the Tories were still in with a chance . |
| 14 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 16 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 17 | Unprecedented anti-government street demonstrations in Tirana on July 1 were brutally broken up by the security forces , and the next day four Albanians fled to the West German embassy , to be joined by 3,200 others in the course of the following week . |
| 18 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 19 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 20 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 21 | Rather it is necessarily fuzzed out by an amount which is of the size of the wavelength of the light employed . |
| 22 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 23 | It is accepted that such surveys are only carried out by employees of the building society in the case of the Woolwich Building Society , so that the question at issue can only arise in regard to the structural surveys provided by that building society . |
| 24 | The bungalow had been more or less cancelled out by mother 's renovations . |
| 25 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 26 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 27 | In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John . |
| 28 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 29 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 30 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |