Example sentences of "thrown [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the field-glasses were finally passed to her she was able to confirm that every roof and every wall of the monastery church and of the little community they had left only that morning had been thrown down by the violent commotion . |
| 2 | These were thrown down by the Persian invaders in 480 , and shattered remains preserved for us in terraces and foundations of the fifth century . |
| 3 | Changing this would require a vast input of resources : the best way forward would be to capitalise on all the training opportunities thrown up by the existing system . |
| 4 | Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval . |
| 5 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 6 | The more the government dislikes the income distribution thrown up by the free market , a distribution reflecting differences in innate ability , human capital , and financial wealth , the more the government is likely to judge that the inefficiency costs of distortionary taxes are a price worth paying in order to secure a more equitable distribution of income and utility . |
| 7 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 8 | It has survived from the early 1930s because of its craggy independence , its non-institutional base , its ability to adapt to new social movements thrown up by the working-class and oppressed groups and , most important , its radical philosophy and perspective . |
| 9 | Paul 's argument is that if you can get the word ‘ only ’ into your Christian thinking , then it will really help to sort out the dilemmas that were being thrown up by the different groups within the church . |
| 10 | While many indigenous workers moved up into better-paid , pleasanter and more skilled jobs , the immigrants were left the dirty , hard and low-paid work in the foundries and textile mills , as transport or catering workers or in sweat shops and small factories thrown up by the post-war boom . |
| 11 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 12 | A move by the player to contest the level and frequency of fines imposed on him by McLean was subsequently thrown out by the Scottish League Management Committee . |
| 13 | A bill to legalize the marriage of Jews and Christians was thrown out by the Hungarian Diet in 1883 . |
| 14 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |