Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 3 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 4 | James himself , ill with some ailment which has never been reliably diagnosed , and perhaps debilitated by a variety of medicines in which he dabbled , fled despondently to his palace at Linlithgow to see his pregnant wife . |
| 5 | The overall mood is decidedly downbeat , but ( thank God ! ) without recourse to the anti-Soviet ‘ protest ’ mode , and constantly enlivened by stark ( though never exaggerated ) contrasts between lyrical and energetic musical material . |
| 6 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 7 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 8 | It is found that receipts are stamped with a firm 's name and merely initialled by a cashier or other employee . |
| 9 | As most of the decisions are now taken in Brussels and merely rubber-stamped by Westminster , just what is the point in voting ? |
| 10 | The handwriting was unfamiliar , and the letter had been addressed to Bracken Cottage and obviously redirected by Professor Wendell . |
| 11 | ET-1 is produced by transcription and translation as a 212-residue precursor ( prepro ) molecule , which is subsequently processed to ‘ big ET-1 ’ and finally cleaved by an endothelin-converting enzyme to ET-1 . |
| 12 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 13 | The dinner itself , a ritual of many courses , begins to emerge in relays from the swing doors of the kitchen , the food bland and unexceptionable , but plentiful and somehow sanctified by being served by the immaculate waiters in sashes and gloves . |
| 14 | Breeze O'Brien , laden with parcels of all shapes and sizes , and further hampered by an enormous umbrella , came into violent collision , not once but many times , during her headlong dash up the hill . |
| 15 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The first specimen to be formally described according to the rules laid down by Linnaeus ( and later codified by Strickland and others from 1842 on ) is the type , and these are carefully kept in great museums , which exchange duplicates after due comparison . |
| 17 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
| 18 | Formed in ice-cut cirques or shallow , steep-sided valleys , the Signy Island lakes are moraine-dammed and often rimmed by a rubble-covered shelf about 1 m below the surface ; the shelves are swept clear of sediment by wind-induced turbulence , and fall away to a narrow , sediment-filled trough . |
| 19 | If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll . |
| 20 | However , the heteromorphs were extremely successful and widespread , and they are accompanied by , and even survived by other species with a perfectly usual appearance . |
| 21 | His tactic was simple : he harried the coastline wherever it was not heavily guarded , and simply withdrew by sea when Frankish opposition appeared . |
| 22 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 23 | Suppose the suspect had taken the taxi to get rid of Carella , got out at the hospital to confuse matters further , walked around the comer to the terminus and then continued by bus to his original destination ? |
| 24 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |
| 25 | The nonsmoker breathes ‘ sidestream ’ smoke from the burning tip of the cigarette and ‘ mainstream ’ smoke that has been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker . |
| 26 | A weird cocktail of fragmented narrative , crazy characters , gross-out eating scenes , bizarre sex ( at one point Singapore is strapped to a bed , given electric shock treatment and then straddled by the squealing daughter while still convulsing ) , this is obscurely related to Otto Preminger 's classic 1944 film noir , Laura . |
| 27 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 28 | PGE 2 rose after radiotherapy from 0.6 ng.ml - 1 ( 0.60 to 2.4 ) to 1.58 ng.ml - 1 ( median 0.60 to 9.6 ) with a median rise of 0.44 ng.ml - 1 , p=0.038 ) and then fell by -0.48 ng.ml - 1 ( median , range +0.92 to -1.56 , p=0.173 ) ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 29 | He believed , for example , that Christ had been conceived in the normal way and then sanctified by God rather than being born of a virgin . |
| 30 | She walked slowly to the door , and then stood by the door and looked at her daughter again . |