Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 2 | She then became fascinated by Montessori pre-school education and on returning to England she started a Montessori school in her country home . |
| 3 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 4 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 5 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 6 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 7 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 8 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 9 | The chill worked its way into her bones and she curled up , trying to preserve her warmth , knowing she was failing as her body became racked by one continuous shiver . |
| 10 | The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models : first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation , and later structuralism . |
| 11 | That capital and experience would give Lloyd 's a bigger , global strength , as it became dominated by fewer , larger groups . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 13 | and light got bruised by 4 o'clock . |
| 14 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 15 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 16 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 17 | Food , discipline , standards of living , the curriculum , educational facilities , study opportunities and employment prospects were all examined and found wanting by increasing numbers of students . |
| 18 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 19 | His " Basis and directives for a Plan for economic recovery , in harmony with our national reconstruction " viewed the fundamental problem as the Spanish trade deficit , which he proposed to eliminate by massive state intervention to stimulate exports and reduce imports . |
| 20 | He entered accompanied by four others . |
| 21 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 22 | Therefore in considering the degree to which any er area can assimilate a new settlement , the size which it must reach subsequent to two thousand and six , should be considered in addition to the size it expected to reach by that date . |
| 23 | Some of the flats housed families , but most seemed occupied by single men . |
| 24 | Christopher seemed impressed by this . |
| 25 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 26 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 27 | Politically , it was the product of a desire for Western European unity , and its ideals were shaped by the need to have some legal bulwark against a resurgence of fascism , and by a wish to articulate those civil rights which seemed threatened by communist regimes in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 29 | The standing of Keynesianism seemed to ebb by visible degrees with the publication of each successive article which took as its starting-point the assumption of full employment . |
| 30 | I 'd retired by this time . |