Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 2 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 3 | But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm . |
| 4 | Unable to pay the ten shillings fine placed against him — a trifling sum , of course , compared with that paid out by the Cremorne merry-makers after their destructive binge — Alfred Berry was sentenced to seven days in the House of Correction . |
| 5 | As far as the material goes , his is more than equal to that served up by the aforementioned pair . |
| 6 | For free the solicitor then discusses with the client the legal aspects of the business and its plans , how it operates , ‘ key contractual and legal rights and obligations ’ and recommendations for any action , all followed up by a written summary . |
| 7 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 8 | Somebody faked it : Russian typewriter letter heading Reznichenko 's signature — all backed up by a first-class tail job . |
| 9 | It presumes that the meaning to be ascribed to any of the elements which comprise the X factor is to be that determined by the reviewing court in preference to that decided on by the tribunal . |
| 10 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 11 | Most people who see the run-down state of schools and public transport do not think that the picture of public spending is as rosy as that set out by the Chancellor . |
| 12 | The overall economic picture was more gloomy than that set out by the government in November when it first put forward measures aimed at reversing the country 's economic decline [ see pp. 38587-88 ] and what it called the mismanagement by the previous Social Democratic administration . |