Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A government press note issued on Jan. 11 said that the riots had been sparked off by inmates demanding " the release of all prisoners following the liberation of the country from autocratic rule " . |
| 32 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 33 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 34 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 35 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 36 | Frogs in tropical countries are being killed off by pesticides developed in cooler climates . |
| 37 | These covenants may be carefully drawn up by lawyers seeking to create a system which will match the requirements of the particular landlord/tenant relationship . |
| 38 | Agreement in principle on these standards was reached in December 1990 but formal approval was held up by attempts to introduce tougher standards . |
| 39 | On one occasion he and his travelling partner Don McCullin were lined up by Indonesians bearing automatic machine guns . |
| 40 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 41 | The Milice was a political police force set up by Vichy to safeguard Pétain 's National Revolution and combat enemies of the ‘ new moral order ’ , identified as communists , freemasons and Jews . |
| 42 | The court has two objects in mind : first to give the tenant security for as long as the holding is not required for development ; secondly to ensure that when the landlord is ready to proceed with the development , the development is not held up by rights possessed by the tenant ( National Car Parks v Paternoster Consortium [ 1990 ] 1 EGLR 99 ) . |
| 43 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 44 | Rocks can also be broken up by microbes finding their way into cracks and crevices , exposing more surfaces which can then absorb more CO 2 , and so forth . |
| 45 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 46 | And if the roof is made up of a series of roof trusses , these should all be joined up by timbers running the length of the roof to prevent a ‘ domino ’ kind of collapse . |
| 47 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 48 | He will judge as quite plausible an event , such as the origin of the first replicating molecule as postulated by some chemist 's theory , which we , kitted up by evolution to move in a world of a few decades ' duration , would judge to be an astounding miracle . |
| 49 | Unemployment up by 13pc says MP |
| 50 | The chief functions of the short time-limit under Ord. 53 are to prevent public programmes from being unduly held up by litigation challenging the legality of such programmes ; and to prevent steps already taken in execution of challenged decisions having to be reversed long after the decision was acted upon . |
| 51 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 52 | Loveless 's cause was also taken up by defenders ranging from William Cobbett and Edward Bulwer Lytton ( later first Baron Lytton ) to Joseph Hume and Daniel O'Connell [ qq.v . ] . |
| 53 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 54 | During 1864 the Schools Inquiry Commission , set up by Parliament to examine and report on the condition of the ancient foundations , visited the School . |
| 55 | He was elected vice-chairman of the Basic Law Consultative Committee , the body set up by Peking to promote awareness and discussion of post-1997 constitutional arrangements in Hong Kong . |
| 56 | In fact we were receiving £850,000 and the balance was being made up by Lineker waiving a cash payment Tottenham would have had to pay to him . ’ |
| 57 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 58 | Ground staff were called in to repair an area of turf which had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel . |
| 59 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 60 | In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG . |