Example sentences of "and [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combine the processes , or perm the same tresses more than once , and the result can be hair that 's dry , brittle and plagued by split ends . |
| 2 | However , he emerged convinced of the extent of severe , if quietly borne , rural poverty , caused above all by low pay and compounded by large families and diminishing work opportunities for wives . |
| 3 | Even without regulars Steve Mardenborough and Andy Toman there can be few excuses for such a disappointing performance in which Frank Gray 's side were outplayed and outfought by fellow strugglers . |
| 4 | Like nobles , powerful clergymen had access to estates , which were cultivated by serfs and guarded by armed retainers . |
| 5 | A large cedar-barque rode at anchor , still loaded with its expensive cargo and guarded by two men armed with spears and swords . |
| 6 | Robert Forbes was born Terence Lewthwaite in Salford , part of the industrial heartland of England , a sprawl of sour streets of back-to-back houses , cross-hatched with scummy canals and punctuated by decaying factories which fouled the atmosphere with their effluents . |
| 7 | I would imagine that fish such as Elephant-Noses and Knife Fish , which navigate and communicate by electrical impulses would also benefit , being especially sensitive to electricity . |
| 8 | Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces . |
| 9 | There are also a few special sailors ' clinics in ports , but even so two-thirds of patients will be seen and treated by private practitioners . |
| 10 | By the late nineteenth century , paleontologists were becoming increasingly aware of this phenomenon and ( in the absence of a theory of continental drift ) were postulating temporary ‘ land-bridges ’ between the continents , which were raised and lowered by geological forces , providing migration routes in some epochs and not in others . |
| 11 | They became relevant for science only when they were formulated and communicated as observation statements capable of being utilized and criticized by other scientists . |
| 12 | Across the yard in the oast house , hops fresh from this year 's harvest are placed in a kiln for 12 to 14 hours and heated by electric fans at temperatures starting at 90 degrees F and rising to 140° . |
| 13 | This early example of government help for education continued until 1858 , after which excise officers were trained by Phillips within the laboratory , and examined by outside assessors . |
| 14 | In driveages the routine samples taken by the pit are lower in every single case than the samples taken and checked by independent laboratories used by British coal . |
| 15 | The claim forms for each section are checked and totalled by administrative assistants , and totals transferred to section registers for record purposes . |
| 16 | Hanging near the Ardebil in the Victoria and Albert Museum is another magnificent 16th-century Persian carpet , known as the Chelsea carpet because it was found in an antique shop in Chelsea , and regarded by many scholars as the most beautiful carpet ever made . |
| 17 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |
| 18 | Coastal plains often feature long , shallow lakes , separated and aligned by raised beaches and occupying up to 90% of the terrain . |
| 19 | All objects have been catalogued and vetted by Chinese experts and the results discussed with experts from Brussels , Paris and Hong Kong , the names of whom Mr van Halder would not disclose . |
| 20 | Pre-school child care , for example , when socialised and undertaken by registered childminders or in nurseries and creches , is subject to stringent regulations . |
| 21 | As a result during and since the 1960s , sociology degree courses have increased considerably , sociology has found its way into schools , sociologists have been increasingly recognised and consulted by various organisations , from national government downwards , in research programmes , policy planning etc. , and some sociologists have also found fame in the national media . |
| 22 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 23 | They argued , and some still do , that in order to grasp fully how social situations are created and sustained by social actors , social investigators need to immerse themselves in the social world under study . |
| 24 | However , in the mid eighties an amazing transformation began starting with an initiative led by the Worth Valley Railway and developed by affiliated groups , namely the Vintage Carriages Trust and the Bahamas Locomotive Society . |
| 25 | The roundabouts had galloping horses , ostriches and other animals beautifully carved in wood and painted by real craftsmen . |
| 26 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 27 | The recipe is modified and simplified by succeeding generations of cooks . |
| 28 | It was wild countryside , steep hills and grassy plateaux , scarred and gashed by steel-grey rocks and rapid , frothing rivers which tumbled down the hillside . |
| 29 | Certainly it is frequently difficult to know ‘ what to make of ’ ( a revealing phrase ) data collected in this fashion , unless the whole enterprise is very carefully controlled and supplemented by on-the-spot observations made by experienced researchers . |
| 30 | These treaties have not remained immutable but have been amended and supplemented by other treaties over the course of time . |