Example sentences of "and [vb pp] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some had excessive swings of mood , and were either excessively energetic or elated , or , more often , inert and plagued by beliefs of their own worthlessness and guilt ; the manic-depressive psychosis . |
| 2 | esteem that arise from unwitting acceptance of the injunctions may be mirrored and compounded by assaults on public esteem , if the community in which people work gives its collective assent to the same injunctions . |
| 3 | Accidental Damage is self explanatory and limited by exclusion of damage due to breakdown , explosion or collapse which in effect excludes damage from any inherent defect in the plant . |
| 4 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 5 | First , the judicial history in England was examined and explained by reference to legislative circumstances for which there was no parallel in Hong Kong . |
| 6 | It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 . |
| 7 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 8 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 9 | In a matter of seconds , his fingerprints had been photographed and checked by computer against the central memory banks . |
| 10 | He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry . |
| 11 | Any changes in deployment , recruitment , promotion and grading can be quantified , tested and checked by reference to a library of analysis routines and projection models . |
| 12 | The big man looked into a face blotched with superficial burns and punctuated by tufts of singed beard . |
| 13 | It is organised and taught by tutors from the WEA and the Liverpool University Department of Adult Education . |
| 14 | The oscillator input is provided by a function generator , which can be started by a signal from the microprocessor and stopped by signal from the step counter . |
| 15 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 16 | It is fitted with the Automatic Vacuum for the L & NW , and the Westinghouse brake for the Caledonian , the pipes running along the sides , under the frames ; and Peters & Co 's American system of steam heating — an inner tube filled with acetate of soda , and heated by steam from the engine sent through an outer one , the amount of heat being under the control of the guard . |
| 17 | The throne is thought to have been made in Constantinople and given by Justinian to his viceroy Maximian . |
| 18 | His pristine shield with the glittering cross was scarred and broken by blows of which he had no recollection . |
| 19 | Finally I passed rows of sombre-looking huts , blackened by cooking smoke and infested by scores of small children and large dogs . |
| 20 | Both are drawn from archival and historical records and show the High Street as it would have been in 1540 , at the close of the last independent century of Scottish culture and accomplishment when 22 kings , queens and princes lay undisturbed and revered by pilgrims in the abbey . |
| 21 | Kuwait was invaded and annexed by Iraq in August , a move which in January 1991 led to the outbreak of war and in late February to the defeat and expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 22 | We believe people should be informed and consulted by employers about issues which affect their work . |
| 23 | They usually begin with pictures of the occupations of the different months , followed by passages from the Gospels and the liturgical hours from Matins ( and Lauds ) to Vespers and Compline , and completed by miniatures of the life of the Virgin . |
| 24 | This has been achieved since the collaboration originally initiated and sustained by means of this series of ESRC/CNRS grants is still continuing.S . |
| 25 | Some propose that social behaviour is caused by external social forces while others , such as the symbolic interactionists or the ethnomethodologists , want to see social behaviour as actions mutually created and sustained by parties to social arrangements . |
| 26 | Newton 's physics , however , once it had been created and developed by way of the conjectures of the likes of Galileo and Newton , was a superior theory that superseded Aristotle 's . |
| 27 | This problem , associated with attempts to ascribe probabilities to scientific laws and theories in the light of given evidence , has given rise to a detailed technical research programme that has been tenaciously pursued and developed by inductivists over the last few decades . |
| 28 | In that first year posters were designed and painted by members of the publicity sub-group and sponsorship was nonexistent . |
| 29 | In this still picturesque village , beloved and painted by generations of English as well as French artists , so charmingly , proudly , and absurdly known as the Venice of Provence — it is built on the Lagoon of Berre , west of Marseille — most of the inhabitants still live by fishing , and in spite of tremendous industrial development round about it is still comparatively unspoilt . |
| 30 | Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken . |