Example sentences of "[vb past] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 2 | Tony , 37 , bursts into a plush restaurant where Sharon , 41 , is being wined and dined by a romantic Italian rival for her affections . |
| 3 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 4 | They require a genuine allegiance to Christ demonstrated by a new quality of life . |
| 5 | Consumer prices in February rose by a larger-than-expected 0.5% , or an annualised rate of 5.8% . |
| 6 | According to its findings , the GDP for the region rose by a mere 1.1 per cent in 1989 in real terms , 9 per cent down on 1980 growth ; and per capita production fell , for the second consecutive year , by 1 per cent to 1978 levels . |
| 7 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 8 | Despite the recession and the slump in consumer spending , UK publishers ' output rose by a startling 16.44% in 1992 . |
| 9 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 10 | The audience for the BBC 's nine o'clock news doubled to 13m on the day war broke out , and that for ITN rose by a third . |
| 11 | Instead , it rose by a further 6,6% . |
| 12 | The biggest increase came through trade sales of children 's books , which rose by a remarkable 84% . |
| 13 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 14 | Baird serves the fish encircled by a langoustine-flavoured cream and langoustine tails . |
| 15 | He was aware only of Eloise sitting next to him , with her legs crossed at the knee , one delicate ankle encircled by a thin gold chain . |
| 16 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 17 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |
| 18 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 19 | His son , with a face blemished by a large red birthmark which led to his being known as James of the Fiery Face , was only 6 at the time of the assassination . |
| 20 | The meeting was obviously intended to establish him as sole king , and may have led directly to the coronation in London by Archbishop Lyfing reported by a twelfth-century dean of St Paul 's . |
| 21 | The climax was , however , still to come , with the Royal Fort House built by a mysterious , but again very Bristolian , consortium between 1759 and 1761 . |
| 22 | Early afterdepolarisations are transient membrane oscillations triggered by a previous cardiac depolarisation that can be sustained in succeeding cycles by repeated triggering of the EAD to cause a tachyarrhythmia ( fig 2 ) . |
| 23 | Looking through the history section means that one character is hit by a simple but effective trap triggered by a pressure-sensitive plate below the carpeted floor . |
| 24 | He stopped by a book-lined alcove to remove his tie completely and to get some air . |
| 25 | The Heineken effect this research has identified is that created by a confiding trusting relationship , which accompanied by appropriate services , achieves more than any other managerial skill they could identify , to encourage elderly people to believe they could manage independent living and avoid admission to residential care . |
| 26 | These are each framed by a swallow-tailed black line . |
| 27 | One illuminating example of the usefulness of behavioural homework targets is that provided by a lift-phobic whom we saw . |
| 28 | Finally she dived through the alley by the Revuebar and into the market on Berwick Street , a drab thoroughfare enlivened by a sudden riot of colour in the narrow sunlight that came slanting down between the buildings — the yellow awnings over the stalls , the bright shades of new fruit , the brilliant white of new cardboard . |
| 29 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |
| 30 | Rejecting medical evidence that he had suffered a heart attack brought on by stress and aggravated by a syphilitic condition , the Nazis used the funeral to turn the dead man into a Nazi martyr . |