Example sentences of "[vb base] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 2 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 3 | Bankruptcies leap by a third |
| 4 | If a block of Pycoma were lit simultaneously all over the top surface , say by a fast-running sheet-fuse , the combustion zone would travel slowly down through the block . |
| 5 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 6 | Their jobs typically appear by the dozens in the help-wanted sections of daily newspapers . |
| 7 | ‘ It has n't been made public , but the kidnappers have said they 'll kill the girl if they do n't have what they want by the eleventh of October . ’ |
| 8 | A good example of a sequential-to-parallel transformation is provide by the following . |
| 9 | Overcome by a sudden desire to become more involved in the record business again , Branson developed an inexplicable passion for a very mediocre pop group called Headline , and signed them against Draper 's advice . |
| 10 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 11 | Many marine organisms time their reproduction by the moon , and some land organisms also breed by the lunar cycle , particularly those living in equatorial regions where day length is virtually constant and so can not be used as a guide . |
| 12 | Conservators , who normally charge by the square foot , call that rate extortionate , and doubt the number of hours Hoelzer claims were devoted to the canvases . |
| 13 | These antibiotics act by a different mechanism from — and thus complement — the existing drugs . |
| 14 | Like dreams , they are wish-fulfilments ; like dreams , they are based to a great extent on impressions of infantile experiences ; like dreams , they benefit by a certain degree of relaxation of censorship . |
| 15 | Of course to people like Mr. Tully who benefit by the British presence in the occupied part of our country ( a country which was partitioned against the will of the vast majority of our population ) the current whereabouts of Barleycorn is an unpleasant reminder that the Republican movement will not be cowed by threats from the likes of him and his cohorts in the Unionist parties in the failed political entity of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 17 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 18 | A film depicting a universal message of love and hope by the Dutch TV company IKON won the second prize . |
| 19 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 20 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 21 | The display bears all the hallmarks of events show by a recent television trail for ’ The Bill ’ . |
| 22 | Cut by a royal blue pencil Points of Order . |
| 23 | Relax by the heated covered pool ( seasonal ) , visit Exmoor , The Quantocks and Devon . |
| 24 | And yet ‘ Southyork ’ is still guarded by 16 police — costing the local taxpayers £350,000 a year — and kept spick and span by a full team of servants . |
| 25 | It was not , save by a few visionaries , supposed that these secondary schools should be provided for everybody , nor that they should be free . |
| 26 | But by failing to light two of the beacons that night , a four-oared fishing coble was able to slip out , unseen save by the immediate guards . |
| 27 | Despite the development of industry in the 1960s and 1970s , the country is still highly dependent on export crops grown on latifundia ( large estates ) run by a small élite . |
| 28 | Run by a corporate-style board chaired by Sir Andrew Hugh-Smith , the exchange is leaner than it was — staff numbers have fallen by two-thirds in five years . |
| 29 | Somewhere run by an elderly couple with no commercial sense . |
| 30 | Hidden inside WS & C is a well-organized industrial espionage section — run by an unpleasant character with a dubious background . |