Example sentences of "and [vb past] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the appointed attendants snivelled by day and snored by night , and understood nothing of the pharmacopoeia and its uses , until Ariel , strained taut by her predicament , became impatient with them . |
| 2 | A self-complementary 19-base oligonucleotide , with sequence 5'-TTAGACGTCTAGACGTCTA-3' ( that is , two tandem consensus met boxes flanked by T.A base pairs and one unpaired 5'-T ) , was synthesized on an Applied Biosystems 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer , purified by anion exchange and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) , and annealed by heating to 80°C for 5min , followed by slow cooling to room temperature , for use in crystallization trials . |
| 3 | Millones ( 1982 ) believes that the value of the soil as a resource was fully acknowledged by the Incas and is reflected in the many thousands of hectares that were contour terraced and irrigated by water stored in artificial lakes ( chochas ) . |
| 4 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 5 | Any British secondary school head , deputy head or head of department will be acutely conscious that his or her work will ultimately be judged and validated by examination grades . |
| 6 | Large packages may be unloaded onto pallets and moved by fork-lift truck . |
| 7 | Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths . |
| 8 | Three oligonucleotides ( Figure 1 ) and single stranded M13mp18 DNA were necessary for this method , synthesized by a Pharmacia LKB Gene Assembler Plus ( Pharmacia LKB Biotechnology AB , Uppsala , Sweden ) and purified by separation on a 1.5 ml NAP TM -10 column ( Pharmacia LKB ) . |
| 9 | For this purpose the two subunits ( TOA I : 32.2 kDa ; TOA II : 13.5 kDa ) of the protein were separately expressed in E.coli and purified by chromatography on Q Sepharose as described ( 17 ) . |
| 10 | The labelled fragments were eluted from acrylamide gels and purified by ethanol precipitation . |
| 11 | Albumin : a protein that is soluble in water and coagulated by heat . |
| 12 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 13 | He may be shy and intimidated by school . |
| 14 | A COMPUTER screen linked to Britain 's only medical mass-spectrometer gives a constant read-out of gases inhaled and exhaled by patient . |
| 15 | Raffles was an ex-public schoolboy , a distinguished amateur cricketer — ‘ perhaps the very finest slow bowler of his decade ’ — who shone in society and at Lord 's by day , and burgled by night . |
| 16 | She was all pale green and chestnut , with an emerald blaze at her throat ; I roamed her face , from the bursting curve of her forehead to the plum-dent of her chin ; her cheeks , so often pallid , were brushed with the pink of a Tiepolo dawn , though whether the brush was external and garaged in her handbag or internal and wielded by ecstasy , I was unable or unwilling to guess ; her mouth was besieged by a half-smile which seemed to last and last ; her eyes were her lustrous dowry . |
| 17 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 18 | What 's more all the holiday parks listed are regularly checked and graded by tourist board inspectors . |
| 19 | People whose own names she was no long certain of called out her name and she smiled and nodded by way of general response . |
| 20 | The clothes were modelled by celebrities , including Boy George , and applauded by royalty and stars at an exclusive fashion show . |
| 21 | GERMINATION Malt whisky is made from malted barley , water and yeast — the barley first steeped for two or three days before being allowed to germinate — either spread out and turned by hand in the time-honoured fashion on the malting floor , or by mechanical methods in modern plants . |
| 22 | This scientism took as axiomatic that systematic and reasoned study , its methods reflected upon and sanctified by epistemology , could generate ‘ truth ’ . |
| 23 | THE Shamen were booed and jeered by football fans when they performed at half-time at Arsenal 's home game against Manchester City on Monday night . |
| 24 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 25 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 26 | Like Arnold and Leavis these writers , concerned above all with what Holbrook calls the children 's ‘ humanity ’ , believe that this can be touched and sensitized by engagement with great works of art . |
| 27 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 28 | And our minds are heavily conditioned and circumscribed by habit , by what we have been taught to think , and by subconscious emotion , human weakness and social environment or circumstance . |
| 29 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 30 | The wax was put into a huge wooden bowl , warmed at the fire , and worked by hand to get the last honey out . |