Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B. |
| 2 | The French commission of inquiry found that the modification to the cargo door locking and vent mechanisms had been only partially carried out by the aircraft manufacturers before delivery to Turkish Airlines in December 1972 , six months after the Windsor accident . |
| 3 | Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment . |
| 4 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 5 | Notice that a set of four consecutive bytes could be treated as a word containing a 32-bit binary pattern upon which word instructions can operate , or as a byte string to be operated on by the byte string instructions , or ( possibly ) by the packed decimal instructions . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 7 | The protocol of chain-pulling in multiple-occupancy urinals has not been thought through by the Works and Buildings Department . |
| 8 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 9 | The first two generalizations are borne out by the data in Table 5.2 . |
| 10 | He is convinced , though , that the water vole would have withstood the pressures on it brought about by the mink had the vole 's habitat been less degraded . |
| 11 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 12 | The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director . |
| 13 | Sooner or later , this questions has to be fought out by the people of the land . |