Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by fire [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 2 | Now imagine that same rainforest being totally destroyed by fire in just three months . |
| 3 | Bishop Ralph de Luffa began a complete rebuilding in 1091 , but it was badly damaged by fire in 1114 . |
| 4 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 5 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 6 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 7 | A car on the Melsonby to Aldbrough St John road , near Richmond , was badly damaged by fire after petrol leaked from a loose pipe and ignited the hot engine , setting fire to the car . |
| 8 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 9 | The present building was begun in the mid-eleventh century and incorporates an earlier one which was partly destroyed by fire in 976 . |
| 10 | After Bishop Seffrid consecrated the completed building in 1184 , it was severely damaged by fire in 1187 and had to be substantially reconstructed , using the existing framework . |
| 11 | A timber door was severely damaged by fire in a blaze at the Park Methodist Church , Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , yesterday . |
| 12 | UPPARK HOUSE in West Sussex , one of Britain 's finest seventeenth-century houses , which was virtually gutted by fire in August , is to be restored , the National Trust announced yesterday . |
| 13 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 14 | A car was completely destroyed by fire in Dukes Way , Thornaby , at the weekend . |
| 15 | A car was completely destroyed by fire in Dukes Way , Thornaby , at the weekend . |
| 16 | The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design . |