Example sentences of "and [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seems , however , that the tension for the actor is but derivative of that tension endlessly defined and redefined by psychiatrists , psychologists and social psychologists in terms of inner/outer reality : I/Me , Ego/Self , or subjective/objective . |
| 3 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 4 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 5 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 6 | Free kick taken by Phillips and wasted by him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 9 | Sales in its department stores in the year to January 1991 were only 6.4% higher , by value , than in 1989–90 — and plunged by 16% on the previous year in the first , snowy week of February . |
| 10 | Conference , I believe that this existing rule nineteen , gives the G M B an opportunity to expand into branch administration officers across all the regions and use them to do any job that is needed and expected by the members . |
| 11 | The bravest of us raised her hand and asked by what authority the Maoist Women 's Liberation Front had commandeered the stage , and seen fit to hand out reams of papers as proposed discussion documents . |
| 12 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 13 | Professor Kingsley was called and asked by prosecuting counsel , ‘ Are you just an expert on the word ‘ bollocks ’ ? ’ |
| 14 | Thus , in 1798 , he re-visited Buttermere and met Sally with an intent to destroy the false consequence , which , in the breast of Sally , might have been sown by himself and germinated by others . |
| 15 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is the site of the battle in 1485 at which King Richard III was killed , and succeeded by Henry VII . |
| 18 | For that to be followed by the Welsh squad members being introduced by the crowd one-by-one in almost American Super Bowl style , and succeeded by an impassioned Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau led by an operatic soprano under spotlights on the half-way line , is likely to induce , ere long , too high an emotional state within crowd and players . |
| 19 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 20 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 21 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 22 | He shall be substituted for and succeeded by his wife , the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza . |
| 23 | In January 1327 Edward II was deposed and succeeded by his son , Edward III . |
| 24 | Cynewulf was slain in 786 by a rival aetheling , Cyneheard , the brother of the former king , Sigeberht , whom he had been seeking to expel from Wessex ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , and succeeded by Beorhtric . |
| 25 | The new rules still fall short of the ‘ positive consent system ’ proposed by the European Commission and agreed by the Council of Ministers last month . |
| 26 | direct debits under the instruction will be originated only in respect of premiums payable as notified in advance and agreed by you ; |
| 27 | The plot concerns a strategy conceived and agreed by the women of the world to end all wars . |
| 28 | Otherwise , departmental estimates have to be discussed with and agreed by the Treasury , with any surviving disagreements falling to be resolved by the Cabinet . |
| 29 | Once this has been discussed and agreed by the client , the film goes back to the laboratory to be married to its sound track and to have its ‘ opticals ’ added and ‘ grading ’ of the print carried out . |
| 30 | Each programme is discussed with the responsible manager and agreed by him or her . |