Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 2 | These were specially designed and manufactured by the firm of Waygood Otis Ltd , a company still involved with lift mechanism all over the world today . |
| 3 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 4 | The plaintiff was a tenant in a council flat designed and built by the defendants . |
| 5 | This border is just one of 30 new designs in Amelia Saint George 's book The Needlepoint & Cross-Stitch Book ( £16.99 , Conran Octopus ) which includes themes such as fruit , butterflies , roses , ribbons , animals and berries — all designed and embroidered by the author . |
| 6 | In particular , CEB engineers considered that stations designed and ordered by the separate municipalities and companies led to a proliferation of designs and a failure to gain the advantages of replication . |
| 7 | the way in which people interact is designed and ordered by the organisation structure so as to achieve joint ( organisational ) objectives . |
| 8 | Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE . |
| 9 | Designed and produced by The Concept Partnership Ltd . |
| 10 | council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in £ residential premises designed and owned by the council . |
| 11 | council liable in negligence for injury caused to original tenant arising in residential premises designed and owned by the council . |
| 12 | This survey was designed and supervised by the Library 's Research Officer , , in collaboration with , Planning and Services Officer , whose responsibilities at the time of the Survey included matters relating to conservation . |
| 13 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 14 | The festivals included " mysteries " , dramatic performances of episodes relating to the life , death and resurrection of Osiris , and often involved the planting of seed in Osiris-shaped moulds to germinate and grow by the end of the festival . |
| 15 | a number of research programmes were instituted and co–ordinated by the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | The freedom is earned and justified by the poet 's acceptance of this responsibility , a responsibility more onerous than any incurred by the writer in regular meter . |
| 17 | It was distorted and blackened by the heat , but Charles knew immediately what it was . |
| 18 | There are two lighthouses on Fair Isle , and if a night of muggy sea-mist coincided with a passage of thrushes , thousands of birds might be attracted and confused by the lights . |
| 19 | He had died as a result of being labelled a ‘ capitalist roader ’ and ‘ revisionist ’ , although he was later posthumously rehabilitated and praised by the Party . |
| 20 | of those retiring now own their own homes , they do so thanks almost solely to the policies pursued and enacted by the Government . |
| 21 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 22 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 23 | However , on a given range of machines the necessary additional routines can be installed and linked by the program which requires them ( ie , the teaching unit program ) , so such programs can be run with standard software on standard systems , with the added complexity being transparent to the user . |
| 24 | One of them , Prof John Sargent , was among a band of eminent researchers in Britain , the United States , Canada , Italy and France who were bullied , cajoled and encouraged by the Odones to help in producing treatment that would save their son 's life . |
| 25 | The siege of Jaffna fort in the north of Sri Lanka , where some 250 government troops were still trapped and surrounded by the forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , continued throughout August . |
| 26 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 27 | Discarded and shredded by the Bank of England and banknote manufacturer Thomas De La Rue , the paper money has been mixed at the Botanic Centre with sludge from a KP crisp factory on Teesside to form a peat-free compost . |
| 28 | For if the parent bird were to be attacked and killed by the predator , all its young would inevitably perish for subsequent lack of parental care . |
| 29 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 30 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |