Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 2 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 3 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 4 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 5 | He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B. |
| 6 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 7 | If the work is carried out by a staff photographer in working hours the copyright belongs to his employers . |
| 8 | The French commission of inquiry found that the modification to the cargo door locking and vent mechanisms had been only partially carried out by the aircraft manufacturers before delivery to Turkish Airlines in December 1972 , six months after the Windsor accident . |
| 9 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 10 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 11 | Notice that a set of four consecutive bytes could be treated as a word containing a 32-bit binary pattern upon which word instructions can operate , or as a byte string to be operated on by the byte string instructions , or ( possibly ) by the packed decimal instructions . |
| 12 | In 1705 – 06 , a striking case , the very important Vienna embassy was vacant for months , repeatedly turned down by a series of those to whom it was offered . |
| 13 | The Basel Convention on the transfer of toxic waste , whose primary purpose was to prevent uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste in third world countries , came into force in early May , against a background of warnings that it lacks sufficient political support , and is in danger of being watered down by a series of exemptions . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 15 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 16 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 17 | The protocol of chain-pulling in multiple-occupancy urinals has not been thought through by the Works and Buildings Department . |
| 18 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 19 | The first two generalizations are borne out by the data in Table 5.2 . |
| 20 | We are being taken to the ‘ limits of pain ’ brought on by a means of transport which is too loud , ugly , congested , dirty , dangerous and expensive . |
| 21 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 22 | He is convinced , though , that the water vole would have withstood the pressures on it brought about by the mink had the vole 's habitat been less degraded . |
| 23 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 24 | The successful launch of the DTI 's two year HCI technology transfer programme ‘ Usability Now ! ’ is now being followed up by a series of half-day management briefings . |
| 25 | The programme is being followed up by a series of seminars linking the projects thematically ( ie training , financial services , and the professions ) . |
| 26 | The Greenpeace action is intended to be followed up by a series of prosecutions involving companies who , the organisation believes , are exceeding limits of discharge into the Mersey which is one of Europe 's most seriously polluted rivers . |
| 27 | Will he ensure that the police are given the photographs of that demonstration , taken close up by the media ? |
| 28 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 29 | Much of the speech by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , which lacked content , was taken up by a series of jealous tirades against the pay of people in the private sector who have satisfied shareholders , directors and other representatives of their need for a pay rise . |
| 30 | The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director . |