Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit .
2 Minimal pairs and nearly minimal pairs should be placed side by side across the lists .
3 At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent .
4 These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots .
5 They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column .
6 Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts .
7 These cards could then be placed side by side in the fashion you want to practise .
8 In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will .
9 They are situated side by side in the square type of pod , or one above the other in the oblong pods ( usually in two columns ) .
10 RECALLED England paceman Neil Foster has been fined £250 by Essex for his ‘ Mr Angry ’ outburst against Lancashire .
11 The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use .
12 It has been suggested by Customs and Excise that rent free periods may be the subject of value added tax by virtue of their being treated as inducements .
13 For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers .
14 During the use of the package , several customers have reported faults by means of SPRs , and have requested different facilities .
15 An early breakthrough saw the end of opener Hinks and when Dean Hodgson was trapped lbw by Sladdin for 38 .
16 Five years earlier he had been fined £100 by magistrates at Uxbridge for trying to smuggle cannabis and LSD through customs at Heathrow Airport .
17 A Scarborough man was yesterday fined £50 by magistrates after admitting stealing a brake spanner worth £3.89 from Halfords Superstore on Seamer Road .
18 FC Brugge were fined £118,000 by UEFA for their supporters ' part in crowd disturbances inside the Velodrome earlier in the Champions League .
19 He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing .
20 The tendency is to ignore value distinctions and to undermine qualitative difference so that popular and high art genres are presented side by side in a unified space or text .
21 For example , a term prohibiting making a back-up copy in a pre-1993 agreement will not be made invalid by reason of the changes brought about by the regulations even if the making of a back-up copy is deemed to be necessary to the lawful use of the program .
22 ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Act to the contrary , any person suffering loss by reason of any rectification of the register under this Act shall be entitled to be indemnified. ( 2 ) Where an error or omission has occurred in the register , but the register is not rectified , any person suffering loss by reason of such error or omission , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act , be entitled to be indemnified. … ( 4 ) Subject as hereafter provided , a proprietor of any registered land or charge claiming in good faith under a forged disposition shall , where the register is rectified , be deemed to have suffered loss by reason of such rectification and shall be entitled to be indemnified under this Act .
23 This was done industry by industry at SIC Class level and separately for large and small companies .
24 prayed side by side in bed .
25 Again , the Secretary of State 's specious point is answered point by point by the Social Security Advisory Committee which stated : ’ The number of applications for review , while it creates additional work for local offices , may simply be a measure of use rather than manipulation of the provision .
26 When the line came through here , it was built inch by inch through solid rock .
27 In the example below , Haultech Ltd is owed £2950 by Datasystems of Newbury Ltd : The Financial Director , Datasystems of Newbury Ltd .
28 The r.f. gain is made variable by means of VR1 .
29 He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial .
30 Shemin Mohammed , 36 , of Marine Prade , Whitby , was granted bail by magistrates at Whitby yesterday .
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