Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three United States citizens and a member of the Peruvian National Police involved in Peru 's anti-drug programme died near the village of Madre Mía in the Alto Huallaga valley on Jan. 12 , when their US-donated helicopter was shot down by alleged terrorists . |
| 2 | Mr Mukhametshin has been repeatedly let down by Russian suppliers , which in turn forces Anis to let down foreign customers . |
| 3 | The overall effect is to loosen the tightly abutting domain junction seen in CD4(D1D2) by sliding domain 2 down by 4 residues with respect to domain 1 , lengthening the molecule by some 15 . |
| 4 | The Government went down by 71 votes and after a short Cabinet on the next morning ( 22 January 1924 ) he drove to Buckingham Palace and resigned . |
| 5 | The irony is , of course , that British farmers are also tied down by European quotas . |
| 6 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 7 | I 'm extremely sad to see that the price for glass has gone down by five pounds a ton which results in the er the income from the recycling of glass being halved . |
| 8 | During this transition , the retirement age was brought down by five years , staffing numbers were reduced , the unprofitable office in Edinburgh was closed , procedures were modified and attitudes changed , a research department was established , some shuffling of the partners took place , and the youngest of them , Nigel Humphreys , was appointed Managing Director . |
| 9 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 10 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 11 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 12 | I for one was heartened to see us just going out there and enjoying ourselves , despite going down by eight goals to one . |
| 13 | Three of the dead , including two policemen , were shot overnight and the other six were gunned down by masked snipers as they made their way in a crowd of thousands of peace protesters into the city centre . |
| 14 | English observers felt England had improved and that they dominated periods of the game but were let down by defensive errors . |
| 15 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 16 | Martyrdom became an important theme as Pearse became disillusioned with the language movement , worn down by financial worries , and increasingly political : W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] thought him ‘ a dangerous man ; he has the vertigo of self-sacrifice ’ . |
| 17 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |
| 18 | He said American Airlines wanted to take on more transatlantic routes , but had been bogged down by bilateral agreements between the British and U.S. governments which had still not been finalised . |
| 19 | The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate . |
| 20 | It was a dignified and deeply moving occasion , the funerals of five ordinary people leading ordinary lives until they were gunned down by Loyalist terrorists . |
| 21 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 22 | A TEENAGER was gunned down by sectarian killers yesterday — as his mother pleaded with them to shoot her instead . |
| 23 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 24 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 25 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 26 | He upheld the death sentences handed down by lower courts . |
| 27 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 28 | Another man , ridden down by two Dragoons , choked on blood . |
| 29 | All of its provisions had been upheld other than that relating to spousal notification which was struck down by two votes to one . |
| 30 | Outside the building there were skirmishes among several thousand protesters when a minority attempted to protect the East German flag , which was hauled down by other demonstrators and replaced with the hammer and compass emblem cut out . |