Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 2 | Homoeopathy can be very satisfying if you do not get worried or weighed down by the ‘ burden ’ of finding a remedy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 5 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 6 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 7 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 8 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
| 9 | ‘ Like being murdered or taken in by the police , ’ said Rose , getting out of the car . |
| 10 | They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly . |
| 11 | This form of modern-day slavery also exists in the Dominican Republic where thousands of Haitians are bought or rounded up by the military to work in appalling conditions on sugar-cane plantations . |
| 12 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 13 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 14 | This meant that it could not be used if it was the result of a ‘ fear of prejudice or hope of advantage , exercised or held out by a person in authority ’ or if it was occasioned by ‘ oppression ’ . |
| 15 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 16 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 17 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 18 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 19 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |
| 20 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 21 | Housework and childcare have remained largely privatised , neither integrated into socialised commodity production , nor taken over by the state , unlike education and the health service . |
| 22 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 23 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 24 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 25 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 26 | The first is the period of oral tradition when the stories of Jesus were used and passed on by the Church . |
| 27 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 28 | Companies ' interim and preliminary statements should be reviewed and reported on by the auditor before publication . |
| 29 | And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here . |
| 30 | Piracy may be very damaging to trade ; but if carried on by the merchants themselves , it can obviously stimulate it . |