Example sentences of "apart by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH athletics may be torn apart by a £7m four-year exclusive contract the sport is about to sign with ITV . |
| 2 | But that theory has since been discredited , and many critics , prompted by similarities between the Gander crash and the explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland last December , believe that the aircraft was blown apart by a terrorist bomb . |
| 3 | Soon after , her husband 's family in Pakistan and her own family there were torn apart by a feud . |
| 4 | It was Macedo who brought together the Indians and Seringueiros ( rubber-tappers ) , communities kept apart by a century of violence and mistrust . |
| 5 | I had my soul , past and present , taken apart by a psychiatrist . |
| 6 | The jaws of the peg were held apart by a stub of pencil . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes entire communities are torn apart by a crime . |
| 8 | Crossing is difficult to avoid in some of the larger shrub types , and in these cases , the stems should be pulled and held apart by a judiciously placed loop of twine . |
| 9 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 10 | In the 31st minute Portadown were pulled apart by a glorious move from Loreto , but Gerry O'Neill failed to make contact when all she had to do was touch the ball home . |
| 11 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 12 | Three hundred and fifty years ago England was being torn apart by a bloody civil war . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a republican splinter group torn apart by a savage feud over drugs money has agreed to disband . |