Example sentences of "[adv prt] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anticipation of this , and at a time when the economy was already in grave crisis as a result of the US economic embargo , the collapse of trade with eastern Europe ( currently down by an estimated 90 per cent ) and poor sugar harvests , the Cuban government had been preparing the population for worse times ahead . |
| 2 | A longer pair for waders and which are prevented from slipping down by an elasticated band , cost a pound more . |
| 3 | In common with many other low-pay industries the minimum standards of pay and conditions are laid down by an industrial council , the Agricultural Wages Board . |
| 4 | ‘ But they 'd care about Doyle , gunned down by an international terrorist . |
| 5 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 6 | The next moment Ronni was being led inside , into a huge tiled entrance hall with a round central table weighed down by an enormous vase of fresh flowers . |
| 7 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 8 | Four Italian soldiers and a Frenchman acting as European Community peace monitors in Yugoslavia were killed when their helicopter was shot down by an air-to-air missile north-east of Zagreb . |
| 9 | Like Simpkin , Wood was let down by an erratic serve . |
| 10 | There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground . |
| 11 | That 's one which defines , while you are totally fit , whether you want your life artificially prolonged should you be struck down by an incapacitating illness or accident . |
| 12 | While anyone can be unfortunate enough to be struck down by an unexpected illness , your future good health is largely in your own hands . |
| 13 | The Ambrose Orchestra played at the Mayfair Hotel until it was closed down by an unexploded bomb . |
| 14 | Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta . |
| 15 | Red Riding Hood could conceivably be taken in by an Irish Setter . |
| 16 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 17 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 18 | It is also being ushered in by an unusual duo : contracting credit and falling interest rates . |
| 19 | But if you go down to the woods today you wo n't get a big surprise , because as boars have a tendency to charge at people they 're being kept in by an electric fence . |
| 20 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 21 | Those parts of the complex which were neither intact nor totally destroyed had been covered and converted to shelter equipment , and the central courtyard was almost completely sealed in by an open-sided marquee top supported on braced poles . |
| 22 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 23 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 24 | Therefore , the less this inner consciousness or Life Force is hemmed in by an instinctive mind structure , then the greater is the capacity for caring feeling and the more an offspring is capable of learning . |
| 25 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 26 | Japan has , for the last twelve hundred years and more , been reigned over by an imperial house which claims descent from the Yamato clan , whose control of the central part of Japan long predates written record . |
| 27 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 28 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 29 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 30 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |