Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |
| 2 | jobs which represent an extension of the wife-mother role , such as nursing and teaching , and those which require an attractive image , such as secretaries , are predominantly filled by women . |
| 3 | His association with these Hammersmith artists was a little resented by Elinor Moynihan who felt that , in comparison with the Soho painters , the Hammersmith set were artists with their claws pulled out . |
| 4 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 5 | Interviews reveal the need for ‘ emotion work ’ in relationships , a skilled task mostly undertaken by women . |
| 6 | Deliveries to London were mostly undertaken by Meirion or Dai Jones , and occasionally , Bernard . |
| 7 | Weary of quotations from the Bible being used to lend God 's authority to the subjection of women , the leading US feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Woman 's Bible in 1895 , a caustic and entertaining commentary on the scriptural passages most favoured by misogynists . |
| 8 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 9 | Sewel 's study ( 13 ) into the economic and social effects of centralised education in the rural areas of the Highlands and Islands found that ( a ) the structure of secondary school provision was not a crucial factor in migration , although the types of organisation most favoured by parents were the local two-year comprehensive school and the all-through comprehensive , located in the West , and ( h ) expectations and aspirations of both parents and pupils tended to be influenced by general social and economic conditions rather than specifically educational considerations . |
| 10 | Despite little definite evidence supporting the use of high dose ascorbic acid , it is widely favoured by doctors and patients as healthy , natural , and without appreciable side effects . |
| 11 | It should be noted that this test was expressly limited by Megarry V-C to secrets in industrial or trade settings . |
| 12 | A compromise was forged on the divisive issue of East Timor , the Portuguese colony forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1976 . |
| 13 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 14 | This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country . |
| 15 | Ace nudged Defries , grinned , and pointed proudly to the two largest pyres : they were the remains of two hover-speeders , presumably wrecked by Ace 's grenades . |
| 16 | The consequence of this weighting is that young children are rarely taught by men . |
| 17 | There is a great deal of scalic movement , though it is mostly hidden by notes leaping out of direction and back again . |
| 18 | The England captain , who had an outstanding match , is eventually halted by Aherne after a powerful midfield burst — but not before Geoghegan and Matthews are sucked in … |
| 19 | On the internal market the European Council " noted with particular satisfaction that the White Paper programme for creating the internal market will in all essential respects be successfully completed by Dec. 31 , 1992 " . |
| 20 | The process of disarming the militia forces which had started in late April [ see p. 38168 ] appeared to have been successfully completed by mid-May . |
| 21 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 22 | It has been very stylishly furnished by Cliff and Barry with great attention to detail . |
| 23 | The list of editors makes interesting reading if only for the number of composers it contains : Saint-Säens was eventually joined by Vincent d'Indy , Paul Dukas , Auguste Chapuis , Reynaldo Hahn , Alexandre Guilmant , Henri Busser , Georges Marty and ( surprisingly ? ) |
| 24 | It contains a unique ingredient , Crotamiton , widely prescribed by doctors . |
| 25 | This provincial brumaire was bitterly criticized by civilians of the Central Junta : Jovellanos could neither forgive nor forget Romana 's ‘ tyranny ’ . |
| 26 | But clearly Hateley , who made his England debut back in 1984 and earned a fortune playing abroad , does not feel he was properly treated by Taylor . |
| 27 | For example the rate of atomic clocks , one on Earth and one 10 000 km above the Earth in a rocket , have been compared and the difference is successfully explained by GR . |
| 28 | A good slo-cooker will come with a recipe book , but there are many recipe books that deal with slo-cooking , such as Slow Cooking Properly Explained by Dianne Page , or Marks and Spencer 's One Pot Cooking . |
| 29 | The extent of the ‘ gap ’ thereby filled by coin evidence can be appreciated from a glance at any book on Hellenistic or Roman portraiture . |
| 30 | The handling of the whole referendum affair was widely regarded by commentators as a humiliation for Tudjman 's administration . |