Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 2 | The known facts about Shakers are carefully set out by June Sprigg and I do not believe her work is a romantic history . |
| 3 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 4 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 5 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
| 6 | Members of the Women 's Patriotic Association — originally set up by the wife of the Chinese army general as a pro-Beijing front — gathered on March 12 . |
| 7 | It was originally set up by Churchill , who wanted better statistics to manage the war economy . |
| 8 | The approach originated in the findings of the Religious Experience Research Unit originally set up by Alister Hardy in 1969 . |
| 9 | Rather , they rely on a tripartite classification , originally set out by Braudel , to divide it into three distinct elements . |
| 10 | Lastly , as in the evaluation of the contribution to the inflammatory response of other mediators such as eicosanoids , it is crucial to assess the pathogenic importance of ROM using the criteria resembling those originally set out by Vane as follows : |
| 11 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 12 | In between the shelled-out buildings , people shuffle like the walking dead — thousands thronging to the feeding centres hastily set up by relief agencies . |
| 13 | In Baidoa , we told how 300,000 people were flooding into feeding centres hastily set up by relief workers . |
| 14 | La Cutufa , a fraudulent loan and investment scheme , was allegedly set up by Pinochet 's National Information Centre ( CNI ) secret police in the mid-1980s . |
| 15 | It is a powerful text based database , primarily set up by typing in field names and parameters . |
| 16 | Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy . |
| 17 | This is the second Bonded Machine that has been bought by Wellco from Bonded Developments Ltd , a company jointly set up by Stoddards and Pickering Staplina . |
| 18 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |