Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] by a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 2 | Somehow , Dai , goaded on by a blend of Bernard 's impatience and supervision , got them working . |
| 3 | There was n't anything I could do and , knowing that , I was conscious of my own inadequacy , weighed down by a sense of helplessness . |
| 4 | Sears put on 2 to 92p , helped along by a couple of brokers ' recommendations . |
| 5 | They amount to no net tax increase in the coming year , but thereafter very substantial tax increases : £6.5 billion in 1994/5 and £1O.5 billion in 1995/6 financed mainly by a combination of freezing income tax allowances , a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance contributions for employees ( in reality a form of income tax ) and extension tax of value-added tax to domestic fuel . |
| 6 | My gut , after a period of glorious dependability on a diet of potatoes , was bailing everything out again , spurred on by a meal of Lomo ( pork ) a lo Gordon Blyed from Puno International Restaurant . |
| 7 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 8 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 9 | My curiosity had ceased , swallowed up by a kind of dreamy awe which from that day increased in me very greatly . |
| 10 | Modelled on claret and made from Cabernet Sauvignon with Syrah and Cinsault thrown in , there 's a ripe fruitiness to this well-balanced wine , pepped up by a shake of spice . |
| 11 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3,000m , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 12 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3bn , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 13 | With a sense of endlessness contained only by a sense of the sea beyond , the earth slopes and drops away from one 's eyes in charcoal heaps of volcanic ash . |
| 14 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 15 | Its conically-roofed tower , hugged about by a brood of smaller roofs shaped like candle snuffers , is visible for miles . |
| 16 | It was at this juncture that Molly was distracted by Jacqueline , who had to be taken back to the house into one of the lavatories sluiced only by a bucket of old chlorinated pool water . |
| 17 | Marx , like his contemporaries , seems to have been much struck by the description of a huge empire run without the aid of literacy but held together by a mixture of ruthless military power and religion . |
| 18 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 19 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 20 | IT was a delight to read that 115-year-old Charlotte Hughes attributes her age to a sensible breakfast of bacon and eggs washed down by a tot of brandy . |
| 21 | This winter Koffmann has been reinterpreting Cabessal de lievre : instead of stuffing and braising the hare he lightly roasts the fillet and laps it in a deep spicy sauce grand veneur set off by a heap of nutty pates . |
| 22 | Then , she would trot out an array of fresh , original ideas backed up by a parade of articulate , intelligent and experienced public relations women . |
| 23 | They have a three-tiered medals system , backed up by a number of Testimonial awards . |
| 24 | Under the single payments system grants , involving certain rights to payment backed up by a right of appeal to an independent tribunal , disbursed some £350 million in 1986/7 . |
| 25 | and then , not if you ca n't get , held up by a piece of string would it ? |