Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 2 | His nose began to water , and the grime from his lips was carried slowly downwards by the fluid in two , dirty streams which he made no effort to check . |
| 3 | The astonishingly monochrome , synthetic quality of the set is modified only occasionally by the saturating splashes of blood-sachets , perfunctorily punctured over the bodies of the slain . |
| 4 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 5 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 6 | Major was understood to want to prevent the Commonwealth Conference in Harare in October from being dominated once more by the sanctions issue . |
| 7 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 8 | Their little brother had fallen in and was being carried fast downstream by the current . |
| 9 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 10 | A wedding was a great earner , for on top of the handsome fee which was traditionally the obligation of the bride 's family the exuberance of the occasion invariably resulted in his being tipped quite generously by the groom 's family as well . |
| 11 | But any vertiginous feelings are stabilized almost immediately by the rhetoric that enfolds the band ( which they severely resent ) , which recruits their private obsessions into a grand scheme of subterranean resistance . |
| 12 | Thus , the choice of communities was constrained quite sharply by the analytical goals of the research . |
| 13 | The sparkling fresh water and grassy banks being sullied twice daily by the flotsam and jetsam of the Severn . |
| 14 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 15 | This aspect is being addressed very successfully by the Medical Audit Advisory Groups . |
| 16 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 17 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 18 | This indifference was naturally felt most acutely by the countries like Kenya in the second group of borrowers and by countries like Brazil in the fourth . |
| 19 | Matched only perhaps by the uninterestingness of the minds and souls of such painters . |
| 20 | In the decentralizing authority the exercise of that influence is made much easier by the offer of participant status in the administration and development of local policy . |
| 21 | Those seen so far by the Guardian are highly unflattering . |
| 22 | Then , letting his actions be shaped once more by the dream , he set off , carrying the boy back down the broad main corridor towards the guard post and the lift beyond . |
| 23 | Charles had been moved early on by the plight of disadvantaged young people and much of his energy had gone into that . |
| 24 | Corinth 's north-western interests were threatened more directly by the affair of Corcyra , which is one of the two ‘ alleged reasons ’ which Thucydides does describe fully . |
| 25 | A romantic vista on a moonlit holiday night is across the Bay of Funchal , and most nights it is made more so by the hundreds of flickering lights on the small fishing boats . |
| 26 | Self-pity : Having addictive disease in the family is a lonely situation but it is made more so by the spiritual isolation . |
| 27 | It was made more so by the billing he got as if it was the Second Coming or something and he was going to be a wonder player . |
| 28 | But just let me come back to the the point I want to make , it is it evident to us from what was said yesterday collectively by the District Councils , that they could live with the figure of forty one thousand two hundred , as proposed by the County Council , without a new settlement . |
| 29 | These people will have been made worse off by the oil discovery which , on average , increased real output per capita , making many other people better off . |
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