Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The footpath that runs with the burn is not one of those carefully waymarked and leafleted by the Forestry Commission . |
| 2 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 3 | The house was reached by a stony drive more than half-a-mile long , furrowed and rutted by the drainage from the hill , but they had electricity , oil-fired central heating and no neighbours . |
| 4 | These three cases have to call into question the rights of parents , ignorant of the lives of the mentally handicapped in our society , and fearful and shocked by the discovery that they have a mentally handicapped child , to make decisions about the future of their handicapped children . |
| 5 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 6 | Eva was excited and perplexed and intimidated by the crowd . |
| 7 | That transformation comes about by the renewing of our individual minds , a change wrought from the inside , so that all that is weakest , pained and most fragmented within us becomes strengthened and renewed by the truth and love of God ( cf. |
| 8 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 9 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 10 | At which moment we can sense the warm breath of composition coming off the page , for Dostoevsky first had Tikhon continue ‘ It carries its own reward ’ and then crossed these words out in his notebook , no doubt because they are too obvious and touched by the world 's wisdom . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose that I was still naive and intoxicated by the candyfloss world that racing can seem to be . ’ |
| 12 | Though momentarily disoriented and deafened by the blast , Grant still felt the floor shake under him and heard the ominous rumble which told him what he dreaded to know . |
| 13 | The majority live in private institutions , authorized and subsidized by the government . |
| 14 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 15 | He remained reviled and hated by the people he ruled . |
| 16 | Most claimants at the time of their appeal will be too troubled and hassled by the more practical day to day problems of their plight ever to have the emotional energy to study the nuts and bolts of the machinery by which their appeal will be processed . |
| 17 | The functional description contained a statement of the purpose and main characteristics of the index system , referring to the need to record , in a central index , all categories of files and documents generated , processed and received by the departments . |
| 18 | Consequently , federalists were shocked and disheartened by the 1945 British general election , which removed Churchill and his Conservatives from power . |
| 19 | Sarah 's violence , here and in the escape through the zombies ' tunnels , is presented as necessary and sparked by the situation . |
| 20 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 21 | he says two men are looking at a sunset , one of them is awed and humbled by the glory of the fiery clouds , and his heart is lifted up to God in gratitude and wonder . |