Example sentences of "[vb past] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 2 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 3 | They require a genuine allegiance to Christ demonstrated by a new quality of life . |
| 4 | Non-farm productivity rose by an annual rate of 1% in the first quarter of this year , barely offsetting a fall in the fourth quarter of 1990 . |
| 5 | Baird serves the fish encircled by a langoustine-flavoured cream and langoustine tails . |
| 6 | He was aware only of Eloise sitting next to him , with her legs crossed at the knee , one delicate ankle encircled by a thin gold chain . |
| 7 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 8 | The most significant feature of this site is the enormous open-air bathing pool ( 40 by 68½ft ) entered by an impressive flight of steps . |
| 9 | We passed gently rolling pastures where fat sheep and cows grazed , empty dusty roads edged with white convolvulus and daisies , and fields of grain rippling in the soft wind like beige velvet stroked by an invisible hand . |
| 10 | The meeting was obviously intended to establish him as sole king , and may have led directly to the coronation in London by Archbishop Lyfing reported by a twelfth-century dean of St Paul 's . |
| 11 | Looking through the history section means that one character is hit by a simple but effective trap triggered by a pressure-sensitive plate below the carpeted floor . |
| 12 | It was only high in the European Alps , on the 7992ft Furka Pass , to the accompaniment of a frenzy of wheelspin , turbo lag , understeer and a violently pulsating brake pedal triggered by an anti-lock device working overtime , that the American challenge began to fade . |
| 13 | Two researchers at the prestigious Salk institute in San Diego , California have proposed an alternative theory : that the Spanish oil syndrome is a violent auto-immune disease ( that is , the body attacks itself ) triggered by an elusive bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae . |
| 14 | He stopped by a book-lined alcove to remove his tie completely and to get some air . |
| 15 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 16 | Finally she dived through the alley by the Revuebar and into the market on Berwick Street , a drab thoroughfare enlivened by a sudden riot of colour in the narrow sunlight that came slanting down between the buildings — the yellow awnings over the stalls , the bright shades of new fruit , the brilliant white of new cardboard . |
| 17 | In the jackdaw tradition of Isaac D'Israeli 's Curiosities of Literature ( 1791–1823 ) , this is a browser 's book enlivened by an engaging personality , the unlikely juxtapositions of curios facts and an absence of ‘ two cultures ’ apartheid . |
| 18 | Rejecting medical evidence that he had suffered a heart attack brought on by stress and aggravated by a syphilitic condition , the Nazis used the funeral to turn the dead man into a Nazi martyr . |
| 19 | The general consensus was that , while their marriage may have had its ups and downs , they were now amicable companions pursuing separate interests but united by a common duty . |
| 20 | There she was , hair swept up as usual , mannishness accentuated by a tailored suit , her presence haloed by the only perfume she ever wore , if she wore any at all . |
| 21 | In March it dropped by a full percentage point , its biggest drop for more than two years . |
| 22 | Each section was examined through a microscope and scored by a single observer ( without knowledge of tissue type or site of origin ) from zero to four depending on the number of cells reacting . |
| 23 | Occasion 'd by a Serious Admonition ’ , Leapor writes : |
| 24 | In 1758 he published the following ‘ Verses occasion 'd by a barbarous Disappointment that the Author lately met with ; wrote extempore , and left for a certain Gentleman , at his House ’ : |
| 25 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 26 | She tiptoed by a well-mown lawn , then a garden jumbled high with broken washing machines , bicycles , empty flowerpots and scraps of wood . |
| 27 | The re-analysis of linguistic structure ( once well developed ) afforded by a different grammar may impel new structural developments and innovations . |
| 28 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 29 | And there is a group of policemen , empowered by the State with all the prerogatives of coercion , who imagine themselves to be a beleaguered and oppressed minority victimized by an all-powerful conspiracy between the white liberal establishment and the black community . |
| 30 | If they drove by an indirect route , that could be anywhere ; right in the heart of London or up to fifty miles in any direction . |