Example sentences of "and [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combine the processes , or perm the same tresses more than once , and the result can be hair that 's dry , brittle and plagued by split ends . |
| 2 | In a country still torn between two rivals for sovereignty , and plagued by numerous uncommitted lords more interested in carving out kingdoms of their own , wise men observed their hospitable duties and opened their houses to all , but waited to examine credentials before opening their minds . |
| 3 | One young magistrate commented : ‘ An animal is stolen , killed , and consumed by half a dozen people in a single night — by morning not a vestige of the animal is to be found . ’ |
| 4 | As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug , he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube . |
| 5 | However , he emerged convinced of the extent of severe , if quietly borne , rural poverty , caused above all by low pay and compounded by large families and diminishing work opportunities for wives . |
| 6 | Even without regulars Steve Mardenborough and Andy Toman there can be few excuses for such a disappointing performance in which Frank Gray 's side were outplayed and outfought by fellow strugglers . |
| 7 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 8 | Compared with the prolonged torment and mutilations of life on the ground , the knowledge that a pilot 's expectancy of survival was far poorer even than a machine-gunner 's could not detract from the infantryman 's envy ; even though death commonly meant being burned alive , at least it was quick , clean — and witnessed by thousands . |
| 9 | I welcome the public debate the NCCL is trying to stir up because I know I 'll get the support of the majority who are frustrated and frightened by deteriorating public order . |
| 10 | Like nobles , powerful clergymen had access to estates , which were cultivated by serfs and guarded by armed retainers . |
| 11 | Current proposals for Birmingham envisage that the centre of the city be privately owned , closed at night if necessary , and guarded by private security . |
| 12 | A large cedar-barque rode at anchor , still loaded with its expensive cargo and guarded by two men armed with spears and swords . |
| 13 | ‘ Set in a little valley of orchards and vines , and guarded by rugged scenic mountains . ’ |
| 14 | Robert Forbes was born Terence Lewthwaite in Salford , part of the industrial heartland of England , a sprawl of sour streets of back-to-back houses , cross-hatched with scummy canals and punctuated by decaying factories which fouled the atmosphere with their effluents . |
| 15 | Eadred went and opened a great , iron-bound coffer and brought out a thick folio , leather bound and fastened by two small clasps . |
| 16 | New opportunities can not be designed and prescribed by one group of people , produced by another , and offered as discrete choices to ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 17 | He 's a really good man , who is suffering from ‘ technology shock , ’ and reacting by some heavy psychological things . |
| 18 | JTPs are operating in a vacuum , with some schemes attempting to provide quality training while constrained by inadequate funds and overloaded by bureaucratic paper work . |
| 19 | I would imagine that fish such as Elephant-Noses and Knife Fish , which navigate and communicate by electrical impulses would also benefit , being especially sensitive to electricity . |
| 20 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 21 | Hockney was the odd man out in Kasmin 's stable of abstract artists , and resented by some of them as a result . |
| 22 | Anwar was bewildered and irritated by this non sequitur . |
| 23 | Backed by sophisticated research programmes throughout the world , endorsed by legislators seeking to meet clean air targets , and proven by more than 1 million drivers worldwide , natural gas vehicles [ NGVs ] are emerging as one of the most promising solutions to the problems of fleet managers . |
| 24 | Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces . |
| 25 | There are also a few special sailors ' clinics in ports , but even so two-thirds of patients will be seen and treated by private practitioners . |
| 26 | Factors related to early mortality in cirrhotic patients bleeding from varices and treated by urgent sclerotherapy |
| 27 | All patients admitted with their first variceal haemorrhage were resuscitated and treated by urgent endoscopic sclerotherapy . |
| 28 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 29 | Of particular interest is the Chicago School 's sensitivity to localities and locales as the context of human interaction , the formation ( though moral careers ) of personal and social identities and large-scale social transition forming and formed by small-scale interaction . |
| 30 | By the late nineteenth century , paleontologists were becoming increasingly aware of this phenomenon and ( in the absence of a theory of continental drift ) were postulating temporary ‘ land-bridges ’ between the continents , which were raised and lowered by geological forces , providing migration routes in some epochs and not in others . |