Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BSC will retrospectively censor the output of all mainland TV stations , but will have no jurisdiction over programmes beamed in by satellite from abroad . |
| 2 | In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament . |
| 3 | These are rules laid down by law which allow a claim to be brought only if legal proceedings are commenced before the expiry of a deadline . |
| 4 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 5 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 6 | BALDNESS can be caused by ringworm from a fungi passed on by pet budgies , dogs and cats , says an Australian hair expert . |
| 7 | They scarcely noticed the occasional ravine and were careful to avoid the mires and blanket bogs laid down by Nature to trap the unwary . |
| 8 | Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable . |
| 9 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 10 | At national level , informal contacts have been important in maintaining long-term bargaining relationships , for example by ‘ clarifying ’ the signals sent out by union conferences , and indeed have been sometimes used in progressing major negotiating issues . |
| 11 | Laura wanted her shops to stock a complete wardrobe for this working woman , ( the ‘ capsule wardrobe ’ of her Wren youth ) rather like lists sent out by boarding schools before term . |
| 12 | Virtually every stage in the firing and aiming process would be supervised by computers backed up by satellite links to the White House . |
| 13 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 14 | The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads . |
| 15 | Commenting on his support for the campaign , Fuzz from Silverfish told the NME : ‘ I believe Charter 88 is creating awareness of the many injustices doled out by society today . |
| 16 | The helicopter pilots reported in by radio . |
| 17 | Sister Hope told me she 'd known a couple of pneumonias opened up by mistake . ’ |
| 18 | North of the Border a long and fruitful association has existed between the Bank and the Scottish chamber Orchestra , the latest joint venture being a series of School Workshops followed up by Family concerts within the relative areas . |
| 19 | The Vision of Elena Silves , despite its rather cautious prose style , is in the end a quite moving story of individuals swallowed up by dogma 's greedy maw . |
| 20 | Subject to limited minimum rights laid down by statute , which are explained below , there is often plenty of scope for negotiation . |
| 21 | Article 100 as originally drafted provides that the Council shall , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission , issue directives for the approximation of such provisions laid down by law , regulation or administrative action in Member States as directly affect the establishment or functioning of the Common Market . |
| 22 | Private forecasters are a bit gloomier , especially about America : according to the averages worked out by Consensus Economics , a polling firm , America 's growth will be just 0.1% this year . |
| 23 | The ton and a half of car rocked , driving over the ice-hardened ruts carved out by farm tractors in kinder weather . |
| 24 | Local fisherpeople are not only being hustled out from what they consider to be community lands , but also being denied access to estuaries closed off by shrimp companies . |
| 25 | De Vries soon lost interest and began to promote his ‘ mutation theory ’ , which stressed the role of saltations backed up by evidence that significant new characters were being produced in cultivated populations of the evening primrose . |
| 26 | THE qualifying pattern of the 1995 WORLD CUP is likely to change at the IRB meeting in Wellington , if the proposals worked out by World Cup Director Russ Thomas are accepted . |
| 27 | It is simply a figure calculated by the government to meet the basic needs of rent , food , clothing , heating and day-today expenses , plus , when necessary , payments for what are called ‘ exceptional needs ’ , such as the renewal of bedding , furniture or household equipment , and payments for ‘ special expenses ’ , such as extra heating , special diet , or essential domestic help ( see leaflet SB1 for details of current scale rates laid down by parliament , and other information ) . |
| 28 | The stone ‘ bunkers ’ on the shore were swept away , the Parade took their place , a new pier was built with a proper promenade and the trippers flocked in by paddle-steamer and train . |
| 29 | Serb villagers egged on by propaganda from Serbia fear the nightmare is returning . |
| 30 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |