Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is accepted that such surveys are only carried out by employees of the building society in the case of the Woolwich Building Society , so that the question at issue can only arise in regard to the structural surveys provided by that building society . |
| 2 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 3 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 4 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 5 | In both Britain and France , aspirations were greatly watered down by events . |
| 6 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 7 | Before the introduction of the Kodak camera in 1888 , travel photography was usually only indulged in by professionals or serious amateurs . |
| 8 | Before the introduction of the Kodak camera in 1888 , travel photography was usually only indulged in by professionals or serious amateurs . |
| 9 | Under the scheme , specially converted dustcarts collect household rubbish , with paper , plastics and aluminium already separated out by householders in plastic crates provided by the local authority . |
| 10 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 11 | Japan 's pre-1945 conflicts with the West , too , were largely sparked off by disputes over Japanese ambitions in Asia . |
| 12 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 13 | are not still being generously spread around by men 's cocks . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game . |
| 15 | It is worth noting that although , during the Survey , untrained personnel were expected to assess the condition of books — an activity usually carried out by experts — considerable efforts were made to ensure the accuracy and consistency of the records which they maintained . |
| 16 | The dates clash is usually trotted out by trainers , along with the firm ground , as an excuse for having no runners up here . |
| 17 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 18 | ‘ The bottom line is that companies that choose to develop domestic markets may find themselves totally blocked out by competitors that are well entrenched and ready to launch offensives on others ’ home markets ' ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 19 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 20 | If the two girls compare notes one day , the New Yorker will complain about the useless articles she read ; the newspaper articles were almost always short , written maybe by hard-pressed critics who were only allowed short articles , further cut down by sub-editors . |
| 21 | The concept was quickly taken up by others , notably Emile Wenz , then by William Eddy and Gilbert Totton Woglom who took photographs of the American cities of Boston and New York in 1895/ 6 . |
| 22 | Educational practices can retard changes , or stigmatise them ( this is relevant to the question of generic he , which is often still insisted on by teachers ) ; publishing and the mass media can popularise a word , or conversely , fail to legitimate it ( quality newspapers , most famously the New York Times , for years refused to print the word Ms , even if the woman being written about preferred it ) . |
| 23 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 24 | Note that , although the current approach to monetary policy focuses on the rate of interest in order to affect the demand for money , this approach is still backed up by measures to control the money supply . |
| 25 | In any case although Acheson in his memoirs acknowledged the ‘ perceptive warning of an able colleague ’ and admitted that these fears were eventually borne out by events , at the time he decided nonetheless ‘ that having put our hand to the plough we would not look back ’ and added his own to what would be hundreds of similarly hopeful assessments . |
| 26 | This appeal to the idea of analysing complex mental thoughts into constituent simples was made earlier by Gassendi , and also carried on by philosophers in later centuries . |
| 27 | Almost all the stock work was carried out by wives and up to 60% of all work on some farms was probably carried out by wives . |
| 28 | ‘ The pink for a girl , blue for a boy thing was probably thought up by men just to help them identify their kids without having to resort to close inspection . |
| 29 | These covenants may be carefully drawn up by lawyers seeking to create a system which will match the requirements of the particular landlord/tenant relationship . |
| 30 | Members of the Skye mountain rescue team were also called out by police at Portree . |