Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 2 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 3 | Roared on by a massive contingent of supporters , Gloucester then went for the kill . |
| 4 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 5 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 6 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 7 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 8 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 9 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 10 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 11 | If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs . |
| 12 | The last US military personnel based in the Philippines were withdrawn on Nov. 24 , thereby ending a presence which had existed since 1898 ( broken only by a three-year period of Japanese occupation during the Pacific War ) . |
| 13 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 14 | At the end of a busy day , broken only by a brief snack lunch with Mike Freeman 's secretary , Kate , Merrill was tired . |
| 15 | After many years of almost continuous work , broken only by a short honeymoon in 1833 , Gooch 's health failed and he was taken ill in 1847 at his London office . |
| 16 | The sky is of a rich sea blue that is almost grotesque in its fullness of colour , broken only by an indignant stream of clouds piping up in the distant horizon . |
| 17 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 18 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 19 | Under section 14(2) , a fishing vessel is to be regarded as being British-owned if the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel is beneficially owned wholly by a qualified company or companies or , as to at least 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 20 | I thought I was being spied on by a right nutter ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 22 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 23 | I asked him , ‘ Have you got any old letters in the attic ? ’ and he said ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ , is his mildly amazed recall of this historian 's jackpot — one which he then capitalised on by a determined digging out of all the other surviving relatives , enabling the construction of the definitive Shrewsbury family tree in the book . |
| 24 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 25 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 28 | This assumption can be made explicit by making literal use of an " existence predicate " , and sometimes any residual doubts about what is assumed on a particular occasion can be resolved only by a repeated and emphatic use of such predicates ; but , as is clear from what has been said so far , the use of such predicates is not analogous to acts of property ascription , especially if " properties " are understood in the sense of " accidental properties " . |
| 29 | It might possibly be occupied only by a raddled ancient , of no threat . |
| 30 | Like Simpkin , Wood was let down by an erratic serve . |