Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chambers ( 1983 forthcoming , and in shorter form 1980 a and b ) has exhorted government officials to be aware that ‘ in developing countries poor rural people and rural poverty in general are underperceived or misperceived by those who themselves are neither poor nor rural ’ . |
| 2 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 3 | Moreover , unlike the clause in Cade the terms had never been negotiated or agreed by any trade association on behalf of farmers . |
| 4 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 5 | Metal products and refined oil are exported or moved by coastal shipping . |
| 6 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 7 | The vagaries of French history in the following decades meant that the principle of parliamentary control was ignored or rejected by successive regimes . |
| 8 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 9 | Opponents lucky enough to escape Malawi to live in exile have sometimes been hunted down and assassinated or abducted by Malawian agents in Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 10 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 11 | Most of the traffic on the narrow canals is now of a different kind : growing numbers of pleasure craft owned or hired by those who have discovered the fascination of the inland waterways . |
| 12 | The Auvergnat evidence , thus , shows us bishops in context , some managing to dominate their diocese , others at odds with their clergy , or hampered by secular figures , most clearly by the outsider Chramn . |
| 13 | Thus , making use of the abbreviation dB for decibel , when , for example , the power is said to be modified by and when , the modification of power is described as An alternative expression of the power change in these two cases would be that the power is reduced or attenuated by +20 dB and +6 dB respectively . |
| 14 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 15 | The ore/gangue mixture was cobbed or spalled by young women seated at anvils , holding the piece in one hand and beating it with a hammer . |
| 16 | And : ‘ Nigel would have been delighted at your success and I was very moved by your point that at no time was he attended or touched by any but those close to him . |
| 17 | He began to drop his head to find her parted lips , and McAllister , who was prey to the most extraordinary and conflicting emotions , one part of her welcoming a kiss from Dr Neil , whom she loved , a kiss which she knew would be passionate , the other part hating and fearing being held or touched by any man , including him , said breathlessly , ‘ No , you should n't . |
| 18 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 19 | 5 Support etc The rights of light air support protection shelter and all other easements and rights now or after the date of this Lease belonging to or enjoyed by other parts of the Centre The following proviso should be added at the end of this paragraph : provided that such rights and easements shall not [ adversely ] or [ materially ] affect the Premises or the business being carried on therein |
| 20 | The new Board was known to hold strong views about the replacement of tram services , particularly those where there was single track in narrow streets or worked by outdated rolling stock . |
| 21 | The 1992 National Cup competition at the Crystal Palace exhibition was once again attended by the top men 's , ladies ' and youth teams who had either fought their way through eliminating rounds or prequalified by high National League placings last season . |
| 22 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 23 | Other towns in the enclave were reported to have been shelled or stormed by Azerbaijani troops . |
| 24 | More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it . |
| 25 | I 'm not a retarded under-age flower who was raped or molested by some evil step-father — not by a long shot . ’ |
| 26 | Romero linked his readings with the reality of life in El Salvador and each week his sermon was followed by ‘ a reading of every documented case of persons who had been killed , assaulted , tortured or disappeared by any group on the left or the right ’ . |
| 27 | This indemnity shall not be prejudiced or waived by any exercise of our rights under Condition 3.3 . |
| 28 | Embalmers are additionally advised to wear a basic suit of some material which can be boiled or disinfected by chemical means , a cotton surgeons-type gown and a plastic protective apron as well as wellington-type non-slip and chemical proof boots of sufficient length that the plastic apron overlaps them . |
| 29 | ( c ) Sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony. ( d ) The actor is aided or abetted by one or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists : ( i ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated or physically helpless . |
| 30 | ( c ) Sexual contact occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony. ( d ) The actor is aided or abetted by one or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists : ( i ) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective , mentally incapacitated or physically helpless . |