Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The tall , spiky effect of purple-leaved cannas or purple-red Lobelia cardinalis , for example , can be used in the centre for height , around which multicoloured plants like coleus can be used , framed or broken up by single-colour foliage plants , such as the cinerarias and pyrethrums , suggested in the table . |
| 2 | Protein skimmers are a must for any butterfly or angelfish tank , as these species are sensitive to any organics left in the water that can not be filtered out or broken down by bacterial activity . |
| 3 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 4 | The statute laid down that measures ‘ for the estate of the king and his heirs and for the estate of the realm and people should be granted only by the king in parliament , the implication being no doubt that such measures should not be forced upon the king by his subjects or drawn up by non-parliamentary assemblies . |
| 5 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 6 | The early skills were brought by French exiles , lured by high rates of pay or driven out by religious persecution ; labour was provided by the considerable fund of casual workers who dragged a living from squatting in the woods and heaths . |
| 7 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 8 | The stronger , less compromising , position is that it is enough to have a problem , possibly due to lack of data or thrown up by another 's findings , and plausible ways of solving it . |
| 9 | Many of these workings were destroyed by volcanic activity and earthquakes following the wars between Elves and Dwarfs , whilst others were abandoned or taken over by Night Goblins , Skaven and other evil creatures . |
| 10 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
| 11 | The target of the revolutionary writer 's attentions is a reading public readily and willingly collaborating in its own mystifications , yet retaining at heart a desire for cultural enlightenment and refusing adamantly to be patronised or taken in by glib and misguided preaching . |
| 12 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 13 | With telephone lines no sooner laid than torn up by shellfire , and the runner become the sole means of communication at Verdun , the most frequently heard order at any HQ was ‘ send two runners ’ . |
| 14 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 15 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 16 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 17 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 18 | It is clear however that , although brought up by her mother in a family subscribing to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses , Miss T. was neither baptised into their faith nor at any time a practising member . |
| 19 | to be of value as a form of catechesis by promoting the development and maturing of faith — a faith based not on blind obedience , nor brought about by coercion on the part of parents or teachers ; but rather , based on a reasoned , personal response to the call of Jesus . |
| 20 | And although frowned on by some , sugar has its place in small quantities amidst the salt and pepper , particularly if the vinegar is very acid . |
| 21 | Housework and childcare have remained largely privatised , neither integrated into socialised commodity production , nor taken over by the state , unlike education and the health service . |
| 22 | He simply could n't believe anyone could be less than bowled over by him . |
| 23 | The portables will be joined by high-end and low-end servers and desktops made by the company from somebody 's chip set — again running the gamut of available silicon — and fleshed out by some of its own proprietary ASIC and graphics work . |
| 24 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 25 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 26 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 27 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 28 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |
| 29 | If the cartographic and tabular data could be stored in computer-readable form , then the speed of the computer could be used to select areas with the required characteristics , derive composite maps , and perform other operations that would be impossibly time-consuming if carried out by hand . |
| 30 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |