Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly fuelled by an increased concern by enterprises with their environments , partly by an increase in the volume of potentially relevant information being published , and partly by improvements in the physical communication of information from source to recipient made possible by advances in IT . |
| 2 | The carriers were women chosen to be impregnated , made pregnant by members . |
| 3 | A WOMAN found dead by firefighters in a blazing flat had been stabbed , it was revealed last night . |
| 4 | A final climb to the hut finds a way over ice polished rocks , made simple by ladders that snake upwards almost to the hut door , where the friendly guardian and her daughter made us welcome . |
| 5 | The medal was backed by a small oval of wood , polished smooth by centuries of wear . |
| 6 | Massa and Oudin ( 1980 ) give an interpretation of the stratigraphical , geochemical , and seismic data in Northern France and Belgium made available by changes in legislation . |
| 7 | If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues . |
| 8 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 9 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |
| 10 | The churches are ruled by men but kept alive by women . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like a parking lot out there , rolled smooth by rocks and wave action . ’ |
| 12 | More urban patients attended a hospital based diabetic clinic and this may be one reason why such patients had less unrecognised retinopathy , although hospital attendance is not always welcomed or thought necessary by patients . |
| 13 | Beneath her external calm , she raged and felt frightened by turns . |
| 14 | The names are interesting too , the city fathers deciding to name much of the outside ring after sites made legendary by exploits of Italian soldiers in World War 1 — Montenero , Premuda , Monte Grappa , and so on — while many of the inner ring streets were named after women famous in the history of the city — Regina Margherita , Beatrice d'Este , Bianca Maria , and so on . |
| 15 | By creating new credit instruments — at first Eurodollar loans , then Certificates of Deposit and more recently all sorts of commercial paper ( i.e. more promises-to-pay issued direct by enterprises ) , banks began creating money in a new , unregulated international banking system , thus adding to the world 's money supply . |
| 16 | Broadman waited impatiently , ill at ease in a room made noisome by vats and bubbling beakers and lined with shelves containing shadowy shapes suggestive of skulls and stuffed impossibilities . |
| 17 | Some cuts involved not filling posts left vacant by teachers discouraged by the rock-bottom pay and difficult conditions . |
| 18 | Pte Clegg is one of six members of 3 Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers who opened fire on the car as it sped along Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 . |
| 19 | Private Clegg is one of six members of three Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers at the Upper Glen Road on September 30 1990 . |
| 20 | The funeral of two IRA men shot dead by soldiers in Northern Ireland was delayed after the priest initially refused to allow the coffins into the church becuase they were draped with the Irish Tricolour . |
| 21 | Four people shot dead by loyalists , other targets on both sides of the divide lucky to survive , and the IRA 's scorched earth bombing campaign continuing . |
| 22 | Five people shot dead by loyalists , other targets on both sides of the divide lucky to survive , and the IRA 's scorched earth bombing campaign continuing . |
| 23 | THE Brazilian ambassador to Britain has written a letter of sympathy to the family of a young North Wales adventurer shot dead by robbers in Brazil . |
| 24 | A man shot dead by marksmen during a siege in West Yorkshire was armed with replica guns which could not be fired . |
| 25 | A man shot dead by marksmen during a siege in West Yorkshire was armed with replica guns which could not be fired . |
| 26 | A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a tourist shot dead by terrorists while on holiday in Egypt . |
| 27 | This meant that when a traveller came upon a stretch of road made impassable by ruts , holes or waterlogging , he simply led his horse or walked off the highway and into the flanking fields . |
| 28 | In Woolwich , the Sikh temple was attacked in broad daylight and the ceremonial flag set alight by thugs . |
| 29 | A revolution set alight by students , snuffed out by communists |
| 30 | Grey-black smoke rises from bonfires of tyres and rubbish set alight by gangs of youths who roam the streets , stop expensive cars like BMW or Mercedes , and siphon out the petrol . |