Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] [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 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 3 | Of the systems of proportional representation , the one favored by the Liberal Party and the Electoral Reform Society is the single transferable vote ( STV ) system . |
| 4 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 5 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 6 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 7 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was widespread international satisfaction at this evident improvement in the prospects for peaceful transition in Cambodia promised by the unexpected warmth of the new relationship . |
| 10 | But the following year the Ryder Cup men had to go to Muirfield Village — Jack 's patch — the course and club he created , to play a team captained by the Golden Bear himself . |
| 11 | They require a genuine allegiance to Christ demonstrated by a new quality of life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 14 | In Scotland the NNDR is also ‘ linked to the Retail Price Index , but non-domestic rate revenue [ is ] retained by the local authority , rather than being pooled and redistributed ’ ( Blair 1988a:6 ) . |
| 15 | Baird serves the fish encircled by a langoustine-flavoured cream and langoustine tails . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With these good intentions in mind , she entered by the low door , bending to avoid hitting her head on the lintel . |
| 19 | The most significant feature of this site is the enormous open-air bathing pool ( 40 by 68½ft ) entered by an impressive flight of steps . |
| 20 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 21 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 22 | Government civilians were reported to have urged that a forthcoming policy review of Japan 's defence programme should take account of and reflect " present conditions " , namely the dramatic improvement in East-West relations and a reduction of the military threat to Japan posed by the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 24 | At the first level training will be primarily on-the-job but assistants can secure a vocational qualification obtained over two years validated by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications . |
| 25 | The first section shows that the authority which states and governments claim can not be based on the main argument for the justification of authority , i.e. that described by the normal justification thesis . |
| 26 | Firstly on the second page , number fifty eight , the Education Act in the middle of page one nine four four , refers to schools used and maintained by the local authority . |
| 27 | The cached information may be stored in a file referenced by the logical name LIFESPANCACHE and must be set up by the user . |
| 28 | entering the command ref directs the system to find the record referenced by the current record . |
| 29 | Note that all the files referenced by the FOREIGN module , and the header file itself , must be in the same account and in the same directory before they can be entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 30 | Then a policy directive in 1977 reinforced by the new government in 1979 , also insisted that InterCity should run commercially even if other parts of the passenger business were to receive grant-aid under the 1968 Act . |