Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 2 | We are all turned into addicts of medicine as every stage of human life from pregnancy and childbirth to old age and dying becomes colonised and labelled by medicine . |
| 3 | It is a mineralised breccia pipe in Cambrian sediments consisting of angular fragments veined and cemented by chalcopyrite , pyrite and quartz ( Allen and Easterbrook , 1978 ; MRP 29 ) . |
| 4 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 5 | In sandy soils settlement is usually even ; in clay soils consolidation is slow , uneven and affected by water and dryness causing the clay to expand or contract . |
| 6 | The human population , and the livestock , of a dozen townships was moving , like an organised but somewhat undisciplined army , from the cultivated area of the crofts to the summer grazings , or shielings , on the hill , where each township , and indeed each family , had its own special area , recognised and protected by custom , although in law they all had equal rights in the whole common , and had a joint committee to regulate its use . |
| 7 | To quote a price by rail is quite simple and to despatch by rail a matter of plainest routine , but it is not so with canals . |
| 8 | In the Kras the vines grew close to the ground , and the fields were tiny and defined by stone walls , while in the Po valley there seemed to be no walls at all . |
| 9 | Millones ( 1982 ) believes that the value of the soil as a resource was fully acknowledged by the Incas and is reflected in the many thousands of hectares that were contour terraced and irrigated by water stored in artificial lakes ( chochas ) . |
| 10 | ‘ If you 'd appeared on a day when I was n't jet-lagged and exasperated by travel delays , I might have reacted less belligerently to your unannounced arrival . |
| 11 | In the same way as Bayard has , finally , been bound , the miller , for all his pride and show , is proved to be impotent and emasculated by event after event , image after image , in the tale . |
| 12 | She suffered severely from arthritis , was unable to read for more than short periods of time , was bored and confused by television , and for long periods lay inert , half dozing , half listening to the radio . |
| 13 | Where Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud ( both London-based and founded by DJ Gilles Peterson ) have looked to lead , others have watched , listened and learned . |
| 14 | Several natural antibiotics are also macrocyclic and work by metal binding . |
| 15 | He may be shy and intimidated by school . |
| 16 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 17 | The light seemed to have brightened , which was odd , and she saw them all like actors on a stage , brightly lit , faces made grotesque and heightened by make-up , every . |
| 18 | Chilean environmentalists are appealing for international support in the latest phase of their campaign to stop large tracts of natural forest being clear felled and replaced by pine and eucalyptus plantations . |
| 19 | I felt like a kid again , skewered by desire , every passing girl a kick in the balls , humiliated and tormented by lust . |
| 20 | Compacts are characterised by the establishment of targets for employers through job and training guarantees and for students ( e.g. for attendance and punctuality though these are base targets and many targets are more sophisticated and driven by curriculum concerns ) . |
| 21 | Next , the ‘ free sheet ’ , unsolicited and arriving by mail or private delivery . |
| 22 | Accidental Damage is self explanatory and limited by exclusion of damage due to breakdown , explosion or collapse which in effect excludes damage from any inherent defect in the plant . |
| 23 | The family is the basis of any healthy society , but today it is being broken-up and degraded by materialism , anti-culturalism and sexual perversion . |
| 24 | TC-cultured LC ( 45% I-A + ) represent BALB/c EC that were cultured for 72h ( ref. 21 ) , TC-treated and enriched by density gradient centrifugation . |
| 25 | Unhappy and stifled by school routine , Diana was desperate to escape . |
| 26 | Finally , if the future of the firm is all predetermined and controlled by nature ( or the gods ) then what is the point in deciding strategy ? |
| 27 | Remember that whenever either a conveyance , lease or transfer defines the land by reference to a plan attached to the document , the plan must be signed ( sealed and attested by director and secretary in the case of a company ) by all parties — except that the conveyancer for buyers can sign on their behalf if they state the capacity in which they sign it : " solicitor for the transferee . " |
| 28 | Iron availability from fibre-rich vegetarian foods can be quite poor and worsened by wheat bran if taken in large amounts . |
| 29 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 30 | Bathsheba stands framed and illuminated by lamplight in the window as Gabriel , outside with the men , accompanies her singing on the flute , and Boldwood , to her left within the room , hums the bass line . |