Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 2 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
| 3 | And a whole host of other countries — North Korea , Chile , the Solomon Islands , Colombia — hardly ever get counted by the practitioners of the dismal science , despite their admirably Pacific qualities . |
| 4 | Washington is likely to react angrily to Kiev 's stance , the latest example of brinkmanship between Russia and Ukraine over military matters , which could scuttle what was hailed as the most significant arms deal reached by the superpowers . |
| 5 | Women grumble about these inequalities , and sometimes men complain that they too feel restricted by the roles they have to play . |
| 6 | But as Laurie Taylor and others have shown ( Taylor , 1976 ) , terms which originally begin life as terms of abuse or disapproval often become used by the victims of the term to mean something quite different . |
| 7 | They become known by the headhunters as a likely place in which to find appropriate candidates for other searches . |
| 8 | Or the rabbits sit tight underground as they become cornered by the ferrets . |
| 9 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 10 | The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush . |
| 11 | When all applicants who have met or are predicted to meet the conditions stated in the table of course requirements have had their UCAS form seen by the selectors , offers will be made to the rest of the applicants . |
| 12 | Other people have sworn by the virtues of Figi or Scorpion skis ( only around 65cm long ) but these sink too much at slow speeds , though they 're great fun for the occasional skirmish . |
| 13 | Thirty years , more or less , have gone by the boards since a ragtag group of artists converged on a spot in lower Manhattan called Coenties Slip . |
| 14 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |