Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | As publisher and chief executive of the New York Times , he is bashed about the ears by almost everybody he meets . |
| 2 | Local traders complain the Wales 's were once a familiar sight but have been hounded off the streets by pressmen . |
| 3 | Its dominance helped us to understand where the new racism began in Powell 's bloody nightmare of the aged white woman pursued through the streets by black children . |
| 4 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that the bank was not affected by the improprieties committed towards the defendants by the director and solicitors of S. Ltd. , and that the charge was enforceable . |
| 5 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 6 | Small and sophisticated , Torri 's beautiful harbour is dominated in the evenings by a floodlit castle . |
| 7 | Martin Frears has been working as religious mercenary since he himself was rescued from the Moonies by his father . |
| 8 | By the outbreak of the war the State had reorganised the railways into four companies where there had been 130 before ; nationally owned corporations had been created in broadcasting and air passenger transport ; a national grid for electricity supply had been created and a national supply industry organised ; agriculture had been rescued from the doldrums by regulation of its prices and quota systems ; while encouragement had been given to sometimes savage reductions of capacity in shipbuilding , textiles and mining . |
| 9 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 10 | Soon the road bridges would be torn from the banks by the flood waters spewed raging down from the mountains by the incessant rain . |
| 11 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 12 | Henk Vlug of the Dutch Plant Protection Service has suggested that the beetles are attracted to the fields by the odour of manure and lay their eggs in the slits . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the tonsure Choerilus attributed to these people was explicitly forbidden to the Jews by Mosaic Law ( Lev . |
| 14 | Smith , 30 , a medical student at Georgetown University Medical Centre , responded to the charges by reiterating that he " did not commit an offence of any kind " . |
| 15 | The Thai government responded to the charges by staging a high-XXXX profile raid on Bangkok 's Chatachuk market , with police seizing baby gibbons , wild cats and other species during a visit to the market by interim Prime Minister , Anand Panyarachun . |
| 16 | But John Prescott , shadow transport secretary , responded to the criticisms by accusing the Tories of having ad hoc transport policies . |
| 17 | The government , which had responded to earlier demands for change with cautious constitutional reforms in November [ see p. 37864 ] , responded to the demonstrations by announcing on Dec. 11 that the formation of independent political parties would be allowed . |
| 18 | Tesco in Basingstoke , Hampshire , responded to the crowds by extending its opening by an extra three hours . |
| 19 | The North has responded to the manoeuvres by putting its armed forces on a semi war footing . |
| 20 | Workers at Tsumeb have responded to the conditions by forming a branch of the Mineworkers ' Union of Namibia . |
| 21 | The EC Commission responded to the ministers by promising to prepare legislative proposals in time for next month 's council of ministers meeting . |
| 22 | In Lewis 's day , some formality was added to the proceedings by the undergraduate 's wearing a gown . |
| 23 | However , Cavendish was of more assistance to L : Lord Parker C.J. emphasised ( at p.378 ) that more must be proved for actual or constructive possession than that the goods were found at the premises , it had to be shown that goods had come to the premises by arrangement and that a servant or agent had instructions to take the goods . |
| 24 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 25 | For failing to attend the Kirk , John Browne would be reported to the authorities by the Session and the Dragoons would pay him a visit — if they could find him . |
| 26 | About 200 horse attacks had been reported to the police by the time the mystery was brought to national attention by journalist Siewert Oholm 's TV programme Svar direkt on 25 February 1992 . |
| 27 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 28 | Prior to the opening of the Republican Party convention , the party 's leadership attempted to curb the huge lead enjoyed by the Democrats by launching a series of attacks on the character of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton . |
| 29 | These dramatic spectacles are caused by charged particles , which are accelerated in solar flares , being diverted towards the poles by the Earth 's magnetic field where they enter the upper atmosphere causing ionisation and producing light . |
| 30 | Leicester , one of the better teams in the division , made only one significant mistake and were mugged of the points by resourceful opponents who did not make any . |