Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scope for agricultural improvement is limited naturally but the RP provides 40% of the cost of fences so that grazing land can be compartmentalised and grazed more effectively , 40% of the cost of providing livestock watering facilities and 40% of the cost of adding fertilisers or grass seed ( applied on to existing pastures and trodden in by livestock ) . |
| 2 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 3 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 4 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 5 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 6 | In the Tottenham system , which is bibliographically based , administrative duties are separated from bibliographical duties and carried out by non-professional staff from an administrative division . |
| 7 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 8 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 9 | Today , it admitted to the crimes and executions plotted in these corridors and carried out by its men under Stalin . |
| 10 | Blinded by the lights and freaked out by the fractals ? |
| 11 | Jam , chocolate , and biscuits began to be produced under factory conditions and shipped out by rail , thus introducing household names in food-production like Huntley and Palmer at Reading and Cadbury at Bournville . |
| 12 | The report says that recent judicial investigations in Colombia have established that political killings have been planned and organised by army officers and carried out by irregular groups operating on behalf of the armed forces . |
| 13 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 14 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 15 | In addition to , O'Keeffe 's statement for the catalogue made the purpose of the exhibition clear : it was intended to ‘ clarify some of the issues written by the critics and spoken about by other people ’ the year before , . |
| 16 | Turn left at the end of Union Street for the Marischal College , a tall and wide building of white-grey stone , with many windows and pinned down by several bus-stops . |
| 17 | The General Household Survey is conducted annually , and the Family Expenditure Survey and New Earnings Survey are commissioned by government departments and carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 18 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 19 | I stumbled away from the caravans and sat down by the hedge to wait for Tumbleweed . |
| 20 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 21 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 22 | In addition to the major landscape changes already outlined , Sinclair ( 1983 ) has also found a small increase in the amount of enclosed land ( 1.8 per cent ) , but a major change from vernacular enclosure to fences , with the area enclosed by walls and hedges down by 13 and 37 per cent respectively between 1949 and 1978 , but the area enclosed by fences up by 45 per cent , to give the overall pattern shown in Table 8.5 . |