Example sentences of "spurred [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My gut , after a period of glorious dependability on a diet of potatoes , was bailing everything out again , spurred on by a meal of Lomo ( pork ) a lo Gordon Blyed from Puno International Restaurant . |
| 2 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 3 | I ask if they have heard that in Bolivia the government , spurred on by the IMF , made thousands of miners redundant to make their economy ‘ viable ’ . |
| 4 | However , the atmosphere was so friendly and relaxed that it was n't long before we made lots of friends and , spurred on by the Animation Team , joined in the occasional game of volleyball or tennis — you can hire racquets and even have expert tuition if you want to improve on your technique . |
| 5 | In the mid-fourteenth-century the Archbishop of Milan , Antonio da Saluzzo , spurred on by the population , asked Gian Galeazzo Visconti , Duke of Milan , to support the building of a cathedral on the site of the two old churches . |
| 6 | Britain had its own discussions , spurred on by the Wootton Report on Drug Dependency , published in July 1969 , which recommended substantially reduced penalties for pot-smoking . |
| 7 | I can truthfully say that there were about a hundred people , male , female , young , old , and of all races , happily training their dogs , all spurred on by the infectious enthusiasm of Dave Lower and the committee of the Meridian Rottweiler Club , who all muck in to help . |
| 8 | Many sauropods , in spite of their ever-growing height spurred on by the need to reach the foliage of trees growing ever higher , had hollowed out , weight-saving vertebrae and a pelvic girdle described by one writer as being like a suspension bridge , with the massive erect hind legs acting as the down-pillar , and the long torso and rigid tail acting as the cross-span . |
| 9 | It is hoped that the managers , spurred on by the profit motive , will have an incentive to improve efficiency , as will the workforce , aware that the state will not be there to bail out loss-making enterprises . |
| 10 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 11 | Now , however , spurred on by the popularity of the Victorian nightdress , she decided it was time to produce a modified version as a day dress . |
| 12 | This aspect of his practice is only just beginning to change , but he intends to persevere with it , spurred on by the personal satisfaction he has derived from ‘ seeing them do their maths ’ . |
| 13 | Such concerns were unlikely to have interrupted the deliberations of the police when , spurred on by the News of the World , they raided It 's offices at Indica in Southampton Row . |