Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | Mr Mukhametshin has been repeatedly let down by Russian suppliers , which in turn forces Anis to let down foreign customers . |
| 3 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 5 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 6 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 7 | Optical-fibre cable kinked , snarled in bushes , run over by other vehicles too short to reach control centre . |
| 8 | Four out of five US resellers who carry Unix software estimate their Unix sales will increase by a average of 49% for the period 1991 to 1993 and are planning to expand their wares , according to ‘ A Study Conducted Among Unix and Unix-Related Product Resellers ’ run up by New Jersey-based Ralph Head & Affiliates . |
| 9 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |
| 10 | The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises . |
| 11 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 12 | The system ought to be to attempt to guess , or find out by other means , the numbers that other people are less likely to put down . |
| 13 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 14 | The numbers go up by successive doublings , from 8 to 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 , 512 , 1,024 , 2,048 , 4,096 , 8,192 . |
| 15 | Some evening she and Andrew would separate on the halfway landing and go up by different flights to meet and kiss at the top . |
| 16 | As new syntactic categories settle down by innovative accretion along the lines suggested , the complex mesh of grammatical relations becomes the cloth of an ever-changing community coat . |
| 17 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 18 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |