Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] by the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the former test and the current test are very similar and indeed the ‘ guidelines ’ laid down by the two Acts are the same . |
| 2 | After a period of popular unrest , Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced in an interim capacity by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , under a procedure laid down by the 1987 Constitution . |
| 3 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 4 | A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed . |
| 5 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 6 | After the first-round vote , it was reported that no candidate put up by the 30 parties supporting Milongo had been elected . |
| 7 | The two men ate in silence , with relish , waited on by the two girls . |