Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1705 – 06 , a striking case , the very important Vienna embassy was vacant for months , repeatedly turned down by a series of those to whom it was offered . |
| 2 | The Basel Convention on the transfer of toxic waste , whose primary purpose was to prevent uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste in third world countries , came into force in early May , against a background of warnings that it lacks sufficient political support , and is in danger of being watered down by a series of exemptions . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 4 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 5 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 6 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 7 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 8 | The protocol of chain-pulling in multiple-occupancy urinals has not been thought through by the Works and Buildings Department . |
| 9 | He tried to lure Wallace back last year but was frightened off by a £1m price tag . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 11 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 12 | The aft-hinged canopies are held up by a pair of stays with knurled locking sleeves . |
| 13 | At Torry Bay the main constraints — involving questions like suitability of available soil substrate , survival of reeds in a brackish environment , and conformity of results to Purification Board standards — have been tested and overcome ; the pilot is to give way this year to a full-scale artificial reed-bed of 11 acres , treating domestic waste from a population of 8,000 people , and backed up by a £500,000 grant from an EC North Sea protection programme . |
| 14 | There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project . |
| 15 | Four reports were published , backed up by a series of duplicated reports which were circulated to interested parties . |
| 16 | The successful launch of the DTI 's two year HCI technology transfer programme ‘ Usability Now ! ’ is now being followed up by a series of half-day management briefings . |
| 17 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 18 | Much of the speech by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , which lacked content , was taken up by a series of jealous tirades against the pay of people in the private sector who have satisfied shareholders , directors and other representatives of their need for a pay rise . |
| 19 | The programme is being followed up by a series of seminars linking the projects thematically ( ie training , financial services , and the professions ) . |
| 20 | The Greenpeace action is intended to be followed up by a series of prosecutions involving companies who , the organisation believes , are exceeding limits of discharge into the Mersey which is one of Europe 's most seriously polluted rivers . |
| 21 | He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B. |
| 22 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 23 | Will he ensure that the police are given the photographs of that demonstration , taken close up by the media ? |
| 24 | The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director . |
| 25 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 26 | If the work is carried out by a staff photographer in working hours the copyright belongs to his employers . |
| 27 | The first two generalizations are borne out by the data in Table 5.2 . |
| 28 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 29 | Sooner or later , this questions has to be fought out by the people of the land . |
| 30 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |