Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller , but equally welcome amounts of money have changed hands for pieces of driftwood and other finds worked on by artists and later sold to tourists . |
| 2 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 3 | She was educated at home by governesses and later attended schools in France and Germany as well as Queen 's College , Harley Street . |
| 4 | The church doorway is splendid , flanked by columns and elegantly arched , a neat balcony above it , set in an elaborate second tier , the whole under a triangular gable section . |
| 5 | Rack renting of this marginal land , bitterly attacked by reformers but never remedied , was the greatest single cause of hardship to those who had not sunk or been born into the vast reservoir of casual labour . |
| 6 | For him , the worst possible outcome was not the one feared by republicans and dutifully recorded in his memoirs — a coup followed by a protracted civil war between the army and a communist-led Popular Front . |
| 7 | The technique of introducing a steam re-heat cycle ( in which steam is extracted from the turbine at an intermediate stage , raised to a higher temperature and reintroduced into the lower pressure stage ) had been pioneered in Britain by consultants and widely adopted in America . |
| 8 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 9 | The King agreed that the forthcoming elections should be by secret ballot , with parliamentary candidates nominated by chiefs and directly elected by traditional tribal communities ( tinkundla ) . |
| 10 | The Report was welcomed by federalists but soon faced numerous difficulties . |
| 11 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 13 | In both cases the metallicity is low compared with the solar value ; this indicates that the gas is mainly primordial , with a small admixture of material processed by stars and then ejected from the galaxies . |
| 14 | But in the absence of an effective liaison between drainage men and archaeologists , there is a danger that such remarkable finds as the Bronze Age settlement built on a timber ‘ island ’ recently rescued at Flag Fen near Peterborough could be broken up by diggers or else left to crumble on exposure to the atmosphere . |
| 15 | A state marketing system gives derisory prices for commodities produced by peasants and later exported to earn foreign exchange spent by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and other privileged classes , or consumed as foodstuffs at cheap prices . |
| 16 | The business domination variant regards the state as responsive to a cohesive property-based class of capitalists because it is literally staffed by capitalists or closely associated social groups , especially in the key ( executive and judicial ) decision-making sites ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1970 , 1978b ) . |
| 17 | We noted above that Marx and Engels most commonly relied on an instrumentalist account of the liberal state as a machine directly controlled from outside by capitalists and hence bound to act in furthering their interests . |
| 18 | The contract is witnessed by others and duly recorded . |
| 19 | Whether these children had been raised by wolves or simply abandoned and left to their own devices in the forest is unclear . |
| 20 | The Centre should be timetabled for operational use by students and formally supervised by a designated member of staff . |
| 21 | The bodies of the 11 were later taken away by soldiers and secretly buried or otherwise disposed of . |
| 22 | On this particular Sunday afternoon , Celia 's husband , clad in shorts and T-shirt , bent over them carefully , snipping here and there , and occasionally looking towards the pram , parked in the shade a few feet away , where his nine-month-old son , propped up by pillows and securely strapped in , made contented unintelligible noises at him . |
| 23 | In other words , they can be broken down by bacteria and so removed from the environment . |
| 24 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |
| 25 | It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics . |