Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 2 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 3 | The boy knelt down by Philip 's wreck of a trap . |
| 4 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 5 | Sucked in by Japan 's juggernaut economy , they take the jobs disdained by an affluent Japanese workforce . |
| 6 | Yet for the first half at least , one is carried along by McBride 's sheer charm and inventiveness , qualities shared by fellow Live regular Dave Whitaker and Su Elliott , who perform more than 20 characters between them . |
| 7 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 8 | It was not only Sir Henry Norris who was won over by Chapman 's infectious optimism . |
| 9 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 10 | If the actual performance of liege homage could be staved off by Henry 's successors until the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty were properly implemented , then it could be claimed that the duke was acting as defacto sovereign in his duchy until such time as the agreement was fulfilled . |
| 11 | Some hoping to escape evidently pretended to lie dead , ‘ like rabbits ’ , but sooner or later lost their nerve and bounded up to regain their trenches , only to be picked off by Campana 's men , who found the spectacle rather diverting . |
| 12 | There was also a political element in that the criticisms contained an implicit condemnation of the extraordinarily large and powerful business empire built up by Suharto 's family and close associates . |
| 13 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 14 | Ahead of the appointment of Gerstner , Smith put together a report that listed 10 key things that the new man at IBM should do , and his report has been picked up by Barron 's magazine . |
| 15 | Day to day work is carried out by contractors ' own labour or British Gas ' industrial staff under control of our supervisors and engineers . |
| 16 | The preparation of the cyclodextrin-based sensor was carried out by Parker 's colleague Paul Bates using commercially available α-cyclodextrin ( α-CD ) . |
| 17 | The research is scheduled to be carried out by Moscow 's Archaeological Office , an affiliate of the Cultural Association 's Sloboda Club for research into architectural planning and environmental studies , and will involve the participation of the Alexandrov settlement 's Museum of History and Art which is situated on the site of the old monastery . |
| 18 | Our results agree with studies carried out by Roncucci et al , Bleiberg et al , and Terpstra et al , however , who have all found that subjects with adenomatous polyps had a significantly higher labelling index than those with no colonic disease . |
| 19 | Tests carried out by Australia 's CSIRO research body has shown it to be effective against over 30 pests ranging from beetles to nematodes . |
| 20 | A considerable proportion of the archive relates to the very extensive survey work carried out by BGS 's Applied Geophysics Unit for the Department of Trade and Industry 's Mineral Reconnaissance Programme in the 1970s , and the archiving has therefore been supported with both MRP and BGS funds . |
| 21 | This project , which is being carried out by George Bain is concerned with analysing patterns of union growth at an aggregate level and also at the level of individual occupations and industries . |
| 22 | Indris and other lemurs are endangered by deforestation , carried out by Madagascar 's impoverished human population . |
| 23 | DAVE BASSETT is warning his players not to be caught out by TV 's all-seeing eye tomorrow . |
| 24 | The bungalow had been more or less cancelled out by mother 's renovations . |
| 25 | The England one-day expert hit an unbeaten 65 as Lancashire reached only 218 for six off their allotted 55 overs after they had been pegged back by Leicester 's lively attack . |
| 26 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 27 | Of all the Royal Family , it is the Queen Mother who has felt most let down by Fergie 's behaviour . |
| 28 | SHELL-SHOCKED West Ham missed the chance to steal second place from Division One promotion rivals Tranmere last night after being shot down by Rovers ' ace marksman John Aldridge . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he shrieked , the screams cut off by Farrell 's free hand . |
| 30 | Jerusalem had been in Arab hands since the seventh century and the Holy Sepulchre was empty , but such was the emotional fervour stirred up by Urban 's preachers that the First Crusade was launched and a new kind of ‘ holy war ’ was under way . |