Example sentences of "and [adj] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , cultural context makes the crucial difference : the appropriation of the romantic , the utopian , and the polymorphous for what has hitherto been marginal , and both demonized and repressed by the centre , and internalized as such at the margins , has quite different effects and implications trom , say , a more general ( post/modern ? ) theory that ‘ anything goes anywhere ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 3 | She was continually amazed and depressed by the way that the neighbourhood accepted and appeared to respect her mother 's self-erected authority ; none of them did as her mother did , and yet they all deferred to the solidity of her principles . |
| 4 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 5 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 6 | The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . |
| 7 | Bearing all this in mind , it may be helpful to those who are still open to suggestions to try to work out with them some very simple menus for a seven-day period ; meals which will suit their pocket , entail little expenditure of energy , but at the same time cover all their basic dietary requirements , and which can be made tasty and interesting by the addition of some of the sauces , seasonings , and flavourings will which you can supply them . |
| 8 | By the time that Baldwin again met the TUC representatives , at 9 p.m. , he was , by the will of the Cabinet , a long way back from the position of the previous night , and embarrassed by the movement . |
| 9 | the Boat Race is a great British sporting occasion … untouched and untroubled by the march of time … no ticket touts or trouble … just thousands and thousands of people lining the banks of the Thames … the watches too … the boat race is still something special … |
| 10 | He 'd seen the face of Hapexamendios Himself , and half-crazed by the sight had been unable to resist the summons , and the binding , when it came . |
| 11 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 12 | At every step they fall back , foxed and flummoxed by the snow , tripping over buried buckets , breaking their shins on hidden cobbles . |
| 13 | Besides cups and bowls with chi-rho symbols and apparently Christian inscriptions , several leaf shaped plaques recall native Celtic votive objects , clearly transformed and Christianized by the incorporation of a chi-rho emblem . |
| 14 | The institution , summarised the 1840 General Anti-Slavery Convention , was a violation of ‘ the immutable principles of equity and justice , and sinful by the light of revealed religion . |
| 15 | Time , when I ask people in workshops what it is like being a teacher , they say they feel unappreciated : unappreciated within the school by seniors , colleagues and pupils , and unappreciated by the world at large — parents , politicians , pundits , the media . |
| 16 | There are hidden recesses , mature native woodlands , a tree-fringed river of great charm and many other surprises — narrow lanes between fragrant hedgerows , pleasant secluded paths and a scattering of isolated and attractive farmsteads , all enclosed by colourful hills and unfrequented by the weekend tourists . |
| 17 | Operated by traditional double-deck Standard cars , and untouched by the modernisation of the Thirties , the Marton route survived into the post-war era as something of an anachronism . |
| 18 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , 61 , a veteran politician but relatively unknown and untouched by the corruption scandal , was set to take over as interim President in early October . |
| 19 | One of our Social Workers has written : ‘ Mrs. Young was deeply grateful and delighted by the morale grant for Mark . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs. Young was deeply grateful and delighted by the morale grant for Mark . |
| 21 | Mr Jacklin , a partner in Jepson & Hindle of Darwen , Lancashire , is amused and delighted by the gift . |
| 22 | Janet Fearnley , who is also chairman of the Parent Teacher Association , said : ‘ We are both relieved and delighted by the result . |
| 23 | The labour movement bewitched by the enemy , bothered and bewildered by the passivity " of the people , waits like Micawber for something to turn up . |
| 24 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 25 | She was confused , upset and bewildered by the train of events . |
| 26 | These offices involved exacting duties in the enforcement of a system which was considered hateful and oppressive by the forest inhabitants ; default in any particular resulted in heavy amercement at the Forest Eyre . |
| 27 | The granite steps and the pillared doorcase were new and unmarked by the city 's dirty air . |
| 28 | The efficient parts were not perceived as significant and powerful by the public but they nevertheless had power and " governed the many " . |
| 29 | Thus , the local Serbian chiefs had considerable freedom of action , and most , like Miloš , used it arbitrarily and grew rich and powerful by the exercise of their power . |
| 30 | Their political activities may not be perceived as very significant and useful by the bulk of the membership . |