Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 2 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 3 | The next moment Ronni was being led inside , into a huge tiled entrance hall with a round central table weighed down by an enormous vase of fresh flowers . |
| 4 | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees , whose trunks and branches are red-ochre , the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black . |
| 5 | Some eruptions have become major historical events , since many of the world 's greatest natural disasters have been associated with volcanoes , either directly through the effects of explosions and suffocation by volcanic gases , or indirectly through the much further-reaching effects of tidal waves triggered off by an eruption , such as those resulting from the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . |
| 6 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 7 | Instead iussus , as often , refers to judgment handed down by an official , whether magistrate or deputy judge . |
| 8 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 9 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
| 10 | She began taking A-levels while working as a secretary for the Commission for Racial Equality , and , urged on by an old Somervillian , wrote to Somerville . |
| 11 | He could simply enjoy a tramp 's way of life , or take the micky out of such a life as this , but I think he is interested and wonders why and how , people take a person 's image for what is hidden deep down inside us , blocked off by an impression to put across . |
| 12 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 13 | ‘ But they 'd care about Doyle , gunned down by an international terrorist . |
| 14 | They scraped through by an 8–7 margin and now travel to Upminster in the next round . |
| 15 | Before long , their confidence changed to an icy fear as they discerned through the enveloping fog the shape of a railway engine lit up by an eerie glowing aura . |
| 16 | Words such as tramp , hobo and vagrant offended him , terms bandied about by an unsympathetic society . |
| 17 | The Stolypin carriage carried the name of the Tsarist minister struck down by an assassin seventy years before . |
| 18 | That was the artificial cloud kicked up by an army , but no troops threatened the Major 's peaceful rest and so he saw no reason to make undue haste , especially as the roast chicken proved to be excellent . |
| 19 | Throughout this state of the course students acquire knowledge of subjects specific to Hotel and Tourism Management , backed up by an appropriate blend of general business studies subjects necessary for basic operational skills and competence in supervisory and first-line management . |
| 20 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |
| 21 | After cleaning , it was displayed in the department and immediately snapped up by an excited young Australian . |
| 22 | He went close in an international invitation meeting in Dijon on Saturday , but missed out by an agonising 0.12 secs . |
| 23 | Urquhart slowed his pace and glanced around , his head picked out by an orange-yellow from the street lamps . |