Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consideration was never advanced or even pondered by the opponents of the agreement . |
| 2 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |
| 3 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 4 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 5 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 6 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 7 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 8 | The nonsmoker breathes ‘ sidestream ’ smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and ‘ mainstream ’ smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker . |
| 9 | A weird cocktail of fragmented narrative , crazy characters , gross-out eating scenes , bizarre sex ( at one point Singapore is strapped to a bed , given electric shock treatment and then straddled by the squealing daughter while still convulsing ) , this is obscurely related to Otto Preminger 's classic 1944 film noir , Laura . |
| 10 | She walked slowly to the door , and then stood by the door and looked at her daughter again . |
| 11 | He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures . |
| 12 | In this capacity Baker submitted biannual reports and advised on legislation , which was elaborated and then codified by the Factories Act of 1878 . |
| 13 | FLAW is a course certification scheme , mounted in conjunction with the British Overseas Trade Board ( the export arm of the Department of Trade and Industry ) and jointly certificated by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board and the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations . |
| 14 | Gabriel 's use of colour is sublime , often radiantly transparent , and occasionally accentuated by the addition of sand or tar to give full impact to the overall artistic image . |
| 15 | The argument that converted barns provide housing for rural communities is well and truly scotched by the average price of conversions — well beyond the means of local people . |
| 16 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 17 | The measures addressed ( i ) restoring peace in the region of Sarajevo ; ( ii ) re-opening the Belgrade-Zagreb motorway ; ( iii ) the security of humanitarian convoys ; ( iv ) the situation of " pink zones " in Croatia ( Serb-populated areas in Croatia not covered by the UN peace plan , but still patrolled by the UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — UNPROFOR ) ; and ( v ) placing Croatia 's Prelavka peninsula under UN forces . |
| 18 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |