Example sentences of "and [vb pp] 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 | Like nobles , powerful clergymen had access to estates , which were cultivated by serfs and guarded by armed retainers . |
| 4 | A large cedar-barque rode at anchor , still loaded with its expensive cargo and guarded by two men armed with spears and swords . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They became relevant for science only when they were formulated and communicated as observation statements capable of being utilized and criticized by other scientists . |
| 8 | 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° . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The claim forms for each section are checked and totalled by administrative assistants , and totals transferred to section registers for record purposes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Coastal plains often feature long , shallow lakes , separated and aligned by raised beaches and occupying up to 90% of the terrain . |
| 14 | Pre-school child care , for example , when socialised and undertaken by registered childminders or in nurseries and creches , is subject to stringent regulations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The roundabouts had galloping horses , ostriches and other animals beautifully carved in wood and painted by real craftsmen . |
| 20 | The recipe is modified and simplified by succeeding generations of cooks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These treaties have not remained immutable but have been amended and supplemented by other treaties over the course of time . |
| 24 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |
| 25 | ‘ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Paintings , Drawings and Prints ’ is a small survey selected from the museum 's own collection and supplemented by several loans from private sources . |
| 26 | Almost all individualists are willing to concede that actions have some causal antecedents , since they allow that people are shaped and constrained by environmental factors which form their personalities and affect what they do . |
| 27 | However , it appears that , if the ice motion is slowed or temporarily halted against a barrier , the snow will be stripped away and the bare ice rippled and eroded by dry winds that continually course down the ice cap . |
| 28 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 29 | Brian McEniff 's side took on a full strength Roscommon in a challenge match at the week-end and won by six points . |
| 30 | ‘ He got pole position and won by 13 seconds . |