Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 2 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 3 | Failing success in negotiation , however , the struggle had to be carried on by any means possible . |
| 4 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 5 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 6 | Maggie could n't help but be won over by this appeal on her mother 's behalf . |
| 7 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 8 | How different a picture is conjured up by this remark : |
| 9 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 10 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 11 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 12 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 14 | An RS232 interface is provided so that output can be picked up by another device such as a BBC micro with a disc drive . |
| 15 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 16 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 17 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 18 | The number of audits carried out by each firm was taken from our database at 1992 . |
| 19 | The engineering drawing itself accelerated this process , because projects carefully worked out in advance on paper could be carried out by many workers each doing a small repetitive part of the whole operation , perhaps in distant factories and workshops . |
| 20 | The evidence suggests that the writers were already considering a cheap grade ‘ B ’ picture about Ku-Klux-Klan and Black Legion activities when the notorious trial of four workmen in Detroit made executions carried out by such organizations a matter of national attention . |
| 21 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |
| 22 | If you do n't , and if further abuse occurs , you will be removed from the list and your site informed about the abuse carried out by this userid . |
| 23 | Assessment could then be carried out by another manager who is either more senior or who is removed from direct line management of the candidate . |
| 24 | According to the Committee , all work carried out by both companies at this stage will be financed by the governments of US and Canada . |
| 25 | As the closing date for nominations approached , a remarkable hothouse atmosphere prevailed at Westminster , fuelled by the intense media scrutiny and the active canvassing now being carried out by both sides . |
| 26 | The work that will be carried out by these centres during the trial period builds upon their previous experience in this field : |
| 27 | As with all restoration projects carried out by any society , cash is the key issue and a share issue has been launched to finance the restoration of both vehicles with £1 shared available in blocks of 10 to adults and singly to children . |
| 28 | In order to generate sales successfully a number of secondary functions are also carried out by most salespeople . |
| 29 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 30 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |