Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typography within a dictionary indicates the function carried out by particular parts of the text . |
| 2 | Knowledge is embodied if the functions in virtue of which the knowledge is attributed to the organism are at base carried out by bodily ( physiological ) mechanisms ; knowledge is built in if its embodiment is determined genetically rather than experientially . |
| 3 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 4 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 5 | Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us . |
| 6 | In the research carried out by one of the present authors ( Powell 1987 ) , forty seven clients in six separate structured group programmes were asked to rate which components of the package they had found most helpful . |
| 7 | The answer to this puzzle may have been provided by some research carried out by American engineers on another large white mammal of very cold regions , the polar bear . |
| 8 | The Tasman Sea ( which lies between Tasmania and Australia ) is warming up , according to research carried out by Australian research institute CSIRO . |
| 9 | It was thought to be important that Parliamentary and public opinion — and concern — should be reassured by having a comprehensive review carried out by such a body . |
| 10 | More serious , probably , was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards : a deforestation which , for example , denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came . |
| 11 | A syllabus , a methodology , a plan of work , an outline study drawn up by some central authority , no matter how enlightened , imposed upon teachers is to be rejected . |
| 12 | It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid . |
| 13 | The uncertainty brought about by further litigation in Australia would now be compounded by the fact that they no longer have any home there to which to return . |
| 14 | In 1589 he was nominated by Lord Burghley for a position of a Judge , an office he humbly declined , giving as his reason failing eye sight which hampered his work , a condition brought on by continuous study of old documents . |
| 15 | A person who is mentally ill has a temporary ailment , a condition brought about by emotional stress . |
| 16 | Much has changed in Miami since the ‘ anti-bilingual law ’ was passed by referendum in 1980 amid the tension brought on by tens of thousands of Cubans and Haitians pouring into the city . |
| 17 | The term programming is used for long term changes in the body 's structure , physiology , or metabolism brought about by environmental influences acting at critical stages of early life . |
| 18 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 19 | Windows can have their heat loss cut down by double glazing and , in the US by storm windows , but it is expensive . |
| 20 | Members of the non-TUC Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel will today begin receiving ballot forms and a letter from their ruling body explaining why APAP leaders agreed to recommend acceptance of an 18-month , 9 per cent deal thrown out by other unions . |
| 21 | I went to feed the ducks at Roundhay Park , greeted the bluebells , presented bouquets to visiting dignitaries at my prep school , fought my enemy Nola Mote , had my front tooth knocked out by two large Bradshaw sisters . |
| 22 | I 'm a bit turned off by some of the things I see . |
| 23 | ‘ We were a little complacent so we had a fundamental audit carried out by external people . |
| 24 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 25 | If you do n't , and if further abuse occurs , you will be removed from the list and your site informed about the abuse carried out by this userid . |
| 26 | The Legal Aid Board , which administers legal aid , proposes to stop paying for work carried out by unaccredited solicitors ' representatives after 1st October 1994 . |
| 27 | BUSINESSES in North Down have benefitted from work carried out by two university students . |
| 28 | The regional representative of Amnesty International , Peter Mills , will speak about and answer questions on the organisation and the work carried out by local groups . |
| 29 | The Campaign 's Project Grants Fund provides seed-corn funding to help with the purchase of tools and materials for practical environmental improvement work carried out by local volunteers . |
| 30 | As I said in Chester to the Society of Chief Architects of Local Authorities , I greatly admire the work carried out by local authority professionals . |