Example sentences of "all [verb] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was by no means all consumed by the brethren in an orgy of gluttony ; most of the larger monastic records in Sussex would have shown a similar pattern , since there was a constant coming and going of important visitors and benefactors with extensive retinues . |
| 2 | They all abided by the umpire 's decision , whichever way it went . |
| 3 | The remaining 12 seats were all won by the opposition United Sabah National Organization ( USNO ) . |
| 4 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 5 | Rotas and overtime were all organised by the porters themselves who were operating what amounted to their own business within the hotel . |
| 6 | Peat wastes as a result of shrinkage , oxidation , and bacterial action , all triggered by the drying effect of drainage upon peat . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 8 | We are all impressed by the Gurkhas , and anyone who has visited Nepal and seen them in operation is even more impressed . |
| 9 | Billy was not at all impressed by the chapel and was trying to out-stare some heifers in the next field . |
| 10 | It was first of all made by the Council 's planning consultants and then by the Planning Department set up under Local Government reorganisation , a department intended in part to oversee the Council 's housing policy and headed by a former employee of the Council 's erstwhile planning consultants . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the exertions of Peachtree proved too much for the four and they were all defeated by the quarter-final stage . |
| 12 | This was all done by the school following DES and LEA guidelines . |
| 13 | They 're all forgeries of course , nearly all done by the Master forger Tom Keating . |
| 14 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 15 | They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point . |
| 16 | But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded , badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade . |
| 17 | ( And these black musicians were themselves all shaped by the counter culture and acid rock . ) |
| 18 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 19 | On the north side , that 's all disrupted by the Castle , and as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the of Lewes was ceded to William de Warren , most of the local powers of the town council , such as it was , were taken away and subverted , and the town became a manorial borough . |
| 20 | They all stand by the door do n't they ? |
| 21 | When arable land replaced pasture over much of Britain between the 1950s and 1980s , there was little in the soil ecosystem to hold nitrate back ( only rarely is it all used by the crops ) . |
| 22 | Henley MBA tutors are all approved by the University . |
| 23 | Terrorising and plunder , all by Mamelukes , and all countenanced by the Sultan because he 's afraid of ‘ em . |
| 24 | You see , none of these laws actually mention homosexuality at all ; they 're all interpreted by the police and the courts to criminalise our affection . |
| 25 | Just as regards two children , that was all agreed by the parties . |
| 26 | All drawn by the wag Willie Rushton , they are each priced at £75 . |
| 27 | ‘ With me ’ is more correct ; we 're all employed by the Health Authority . ’ |
| 28 | In some way we were all affected by the impact of the Food Safety Act 1990 and the amendments to food hygiene regulations . |
| 29 | Analysis of pre-war Japan is not at all characterized by the absence of attention to the state , quite the contrary . |
| 30 | Mr Reed , along with Martin Gibbs and Christopher Stainforth , director of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , were all condemned by the inspectors , and Mr Reed resigned from County as a result . |