Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 2 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 3 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 4 | After all , at this end of the market where incomes are low and where applicants for credit may well have been turned down by other types of lender , lenders may feel that they have to discriminate particularly carefully to be sure of recovering their money . |
| 5 | A tradition passed down by early historians of the Dominican Order would make Alexander already a teacher of theology at Toulouse in 1215 , when his lectures were attended by the order 's founder , St Dominic . |
| 6 | Second , I agree with the suggestion made by Martin Howe that there should be an express list laid down by national parliaments of protected matters which no Community law should be allowed to affect . |
| 7 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 8 | It is easy to assume that there was a gap in Darwin 's theory that would later be filled in by modern knowledge of heredity . |
| 9 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 10 | Misty green valleys , shot through with rushing vodka-clear rivers ; emerald rice-paddies fringed with golden stands of bamboo , and primary forest towered over by soaring escarpments of granite . |
| 11 | for one moment it seemed that the bald man would carry the situation through by sheer force of character . |
| 12 | And these tiny , mullioned windows in their deep embrasures which let in the light so strangely , shadows like dark brown varnish suddenly filtered through by thin beams of light which might be any colour from silver to amber . |
| 13 | As the late collector stated , the antiquities market can be treacherous going , as many collectors can be put off by unanswered questions of authenticity and provenance . |
| 14 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 15 | Glue-sniffing means breathing in the vapours given off by certain types of glue in order to get intoxicated or ‘ high ’ , rather like getting drunk on alcohol . |
| 16 | They told themselves that they might be frightened off if they knew that Derek was backed up by other members of his family . |
| 17 | The report warns service providers against offering global ‘ one-stop shopping ’ services , as they may then find that the more attractive routes or services are picked up by other types of provider with cheaper offerings . |
| 18 | In the 1970s and 1980s , as faith among British teachers in our English national heritage or in Leavis 's great tradition became less influential , there was a growing fascination with problems thrown up by new methods of cultural analysis . |
| 19 | Most of the mass is made up by vast deposits of octiron deep within the crust . |
| 20 | It seems to me to indicate a failure on the part of the union activists to understand that by ‘ withdrawing good will ’ , the state education service has lost much of the respect so painstakingly built up by successive generations of teachers . |
| 21 | Such a movement , if continued , would presumably quickly deplete the feature and lead to its destruction , unless the bar is being built up by onshore movement of material at its western end as Hardy suggests . |
| 22 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 23 | There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’ |
| 24 | Weeks later , half were downstairs for the more tuneful brew mixed up by various members of the Flying DJ family . |
| 25 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |
| 26 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 27 | Expectations are built up by past experience of an author 's books , by a title , by the book 's dust jacket , and by its illustrations . |
| 28 | If the article was unstained , and was finished with a clear coating , the damaged area can be filled up by repeated applications of a clear polyurethane , transparent French polish or cold cure lacquer . |
| 29 | Nor does it necessarily follow that if polytechnics were somehow to promote part-time and sub-degree courses , that they would be taken up by large numbers of children of manual workers . |
| 30 | As a result the hierarchical structure of the state has been increasingly broken up by horizontal structures of working parties , ad hoc reviews , and above all , semi-autonomous government agencies ( see , e.g. Barker 1982 ) . |