Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 2 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 3 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 4 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 5 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 6 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 7 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 8 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 9 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 10 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 11 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 12 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 13 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 14 | A union will only come about by 1997 if a substantial majority of Community members agree it should . |
| 15 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 16 | The biggest of the East German firms already wound up by late October 1990 was the Dresden-based Pentacom , which had employed 5,600 mostly skilled workers to produce the hard-currency-earning Praktica camera , but was unable to survive commercially without state subsidies . |
| 17 | Subject indexing is generally carried out by those familiar with the discipline definitions , for reasons connected with the publication of classified bibliographies , or for the arrangement of documents in libraries , information centres , catalogues and databases . |
| 18 | School cleaning in Lincolnshire is already carried out by private contractors . |
| 19 | Since we know that the periodicity of some variables is longer than the monitoring already carried out by human beings , we must make use of surrogate or proxy variables to extend our range of knowledge ( such as via tree rings , palynology , oxygen isotope ratios from ice cores and geomorphological evidence of environmental change ) ; |
| 20 | They are not suitable instruments for exploratory research , which is best carried out by in-depth investigation of a small number of speakers . |
| 21 | Examination and determination : The government should acknowledge that the handling of asylum applications is best carried out by qualified interviewers with knowledge of conditions in the applicants ' country . |
| 22 | cos John just phoned up by three hundred pounds . |
| 23 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 24 | Like Johnson , who finished fourth in 14:28.75 , Mandale 's Paul Lowe just missed out by one place in the 1500 metres , clocking 3:57.0 . |
| 25 | It began to rain , and his heart sank , for the book was a valuable one , laboriously copied out by inspired monks . |
| 26 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |
| 27 | It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over . |
| 28 | indeed , the mood of the Conservative Party Conference twenty years ago was aptly summed up by one speaker who thought : ‘ Over the past 25 years we in this country , through misguided sentiment , have cast aside the word ‘ discipline ’ ’ , and now we are suffering from it . ’ |
| 29 | The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’ |
| 30 | ( Further , that is , to the fall already brought about by recent recessionary trends . ) |