Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 2 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 3 | Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff . |
| 4 | Audit and standard setting of measures common to all or most practices may best be designed and supported by a central body with nationwide aegis . |
| 5 | In this month 's competition you could win a prize patio worth £3,000 , designed and built by a Chelsea medal-winner |
| 6 | Belgo was designed and built by a bald bloke called Arnand Zenz whose witty interpretation of the concept includes strange tubing that pours out from the kitchen and opaque glass bricks for the toilet walls . |
| 7 | Wagamama was designed and built by a firm called JSP , from a conceptual sketch by John Pawson ( the renowned minimalist architect responsible for Wakaba , the expensive Japanese restaurant in Finchley Road ) . |
| 8 | This is the name of a machine designed and built by a team led by Aleksander . |
| 9 | His hypothesis was that living watches were literally designed and built by a master watchmaker . |
| 10 | A counter is instituted and blocked by a downward palm technique . |
| 11 | Another Harvard dealer moved to Sheppards , a Stock Exchange member firm , where he was telephoned and abused by a Harvard Securities director . |
| 12 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 13 | Often these people believed that each of the components of nature — the forest , the rivers , the sky — was occupied and guarded by a jealous god , and they behaved as if that were the case . |
| 14 | In the Police and Criminal Evidence Act , the old idea of voluntariness , with its preoccupation with the mental state of the suspect , was dropped and replaced by a broader rule . |
| 15 | They should be placed where horses can have free access to them without the fear of being trapped and hurt by a more aggressive horse higher in the pecking order . |
| 16 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 17 | Hawkins had entered the predominantly Italian area of Bensonhurst in order to buy a secondhand car , but had been pursued , attacked and killed by a mob of 40 white youths who were intent upon preventing blacks from attending the birthday party of a local white girl . |
| 18 | When she was two hundred and fifty miles off the coast of Ireland the Athenia was attacked and sunk by a submarine . |
| 19 | THREE UNARMED British rubber plantation owners were attacked and murdered by a group of Chinese bandits at Sungei Siput , Malaya , on June 16 , 1948 . |
| 20 | These themes were summarized and developed by a large group of contributors writing for the Black Papers between the late 1960s and mid 1970s , which had a considerable impact on educational debates , and indeed on public policy . |
| 21 | On Jan. 2 , 1993 ( the date on which the civilian administration was to have been inaugurated ) the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) would be dissolved and replaced by a National Defence and Security Council ; the present Council of Ministers would also cease to exist , giving way to a civilian Transitional Council with the responsibility of overseeing the final stages of the transition . |
| 22 | They were automatically members of a minority which was loathed and persecuted by a substantial section of society . |
| 23 | Interest was refuelled in the 1980s by feminism , and the exhibition is accompanied by a substantial book of essays , edited and headed by a leading Angelica Kauffman scholar , Wendy Wassyng Roworth . |
| 24 | A parish newsletter , detailing events taking place in the community , other items of interest and a vehicle for expressing points of view , is written , edited and distributed by a group of volunteers to over 400 homes each month . |
| 25 | Contradictory discourses are contained and framed by a dominant discourse . |
| 26 | Around the time of Jesus 's birth , a militant , armed opposition to Rome was organised and led by a man who also claimed the title of Messiah . |
| 27 | North Korea was tightly organised and directed by a tough , ruthless élite . |
| 28 | In Finland the selling of all alcoholicbeverages is organised and controlled by a single institution , The Finnish State Alcohol Company ( Alko Ltd ) . |
| 29 | The US space shuttle Endeavour ended a nine-day mission on May 16 during which it rescued the US$175,000,000 Intelsat global communications satellite , owned and operated by a consortium of 22 countries . |
| 30 | More often it involves the purchase of an operational division or the purchase of one business owned and operated by a multitude of different companies within a group . |