Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it offered only a static picture of the corporate executive and fails to visualize him as caught in and conditioned by organizational processes of career advancement . |
| 2 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 3 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 4 | The extent to which British society has , until recently , found such institutions congenial derives largely from an unbroken and perhaps originally feudal tradition of social networks and obligations which were imposed on and accepted by all members of society , whatever their status . |
| 5 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 6 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 7 | Such ventures never formed more than a significant minority of the total number of clubs , most of which were based on street or neighbourhood groups set up and run by ordinary working people . |
| 8 | Harris asked the Ambassador whether he had received any letters from Amnesty members concerning Guatemalan street children ( who are routinely rounded up and beaten by that country 's security forces ) . |
| 9 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 11 | The simple task devised by Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) was subsequently taken up and modified by other investigations . |
| 12 | The local technical university is a useful source ; so is the Penang Skills Development Centre , set up and financed by local multinationals . |
| 13 | These are cooperative credit societies set up and controlled by local people from a defined geographical area . |
| 14 | If her answers were unsatisfactory , their report would be taken to a magistrates ' court the next morning and a petition for her " reception order " drawn up and signed by two people — preferably near relatives or representatives of the family . |
| 15 | The key figure responsible for resurrecting the Durkheimian idea of the functions of crime was Erikson ( 1966 ) , but it was taken up and used by other writers of the period ( for example , Box , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | It said : ’ Local authorities , like central Government , should become enablers rather than providers Compulsory competitive tendering should be progressively phased out and replaced by compulsory private tendering Only public health , civil defence and local amenities need to remain an integral part of local government . ’ |
| 17 | Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter . |
| 18 | Audio dubbing is a simple set-up ( right ) by which original video sound can be dubbed out and replaced by new sound such as background effects or music . |
| 19 | Crumbling and porous material is best dug out and replaced by new . |
| 20 | These courses are being phased out and replaced by new courses . |
| 21 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 22 | A reduction is promised in human exposure to lead , the EC ban on cadmium use [ see above ] will be supported and all identifiable polychlorinated biphenyls will be phased out and destroyed by 1999. * Water quality . |
| 23 | Meetings of all RO 's marking particular grades are held , at which pencilled Reports are read out and discussed by all present . |
| 24 | They were several hundred yards apart and hidden from each other by a bend in the road , and they were both set well back and reached by private tracks which were better maintained than the road itself . |
| 25 | Quite a number of iron and steel ships were driven under and lost by this attitude of mind . |
| 26 | walked round and left by different ways . |