Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has travelled by ordinary train on a number of occasions . ’ |
| 2 | The EC has responded by imposing restrictions on infected areas , but farmers , faced with piglet losses of between five and ten per cent , are increasingly worried . |
| 3 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 4 | He has stuck by radical plans for economic reform in Russia . |
| 5 | It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone . |
| 6 | Apart from North Sea projects on the drawing board , progress is expected during 1993 towards the development of the huge Mars discovery it shares with Shell in the Gulf of Mexico and the oil reserves it has established by pioneering exploration work in Colombia . |
| 7 | To the extent that such materials are realizations of principles , instances of what exercises informed by certain ideas might look like , then they are illustrations . |
| 8 | The desert town of Perfection , Nevada — all tumbleweed and beat-up trucks — gets attacked by giant earthworms . |
| 9 | ‘ Or what if Chelsi gets killed by Nebulan guards when she escapes with Brad ? ’ |
| 10 | Check the colour for lighting in case your scheme gets spoiled by wrong filters . |
| 11 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl is said by aides to favour stronger backing for the allies but feels constrained by empty coffers and by a constitutional provision which arguably bans the use of German forces outside the NATO area . |
| 12 | The extent to which a person feels threatened by other people having information about him or her varies from one person to another . |
| 13 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 14 | Indeed , an IS1151-like element was located near the epsilon-toxin structural gene in all 19 type B and type D isolates studied by Southern blotting ( 3 ) . |
| 15 | In the case of the example in the preceding paragraph , the maintenance function remains performed by permanent staff but the development function is now performed by temporary staff brought in via an agency . |
| 16 | In a short time , the chitin hardens and becomes strengthened by new deposits of sclerotin . |
| 17 | It 's fed by underground springs . |
| 18 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 19 | It 's produced by Christian Aid and it 's part of its Christian Aid week 's activity . |
| 20 | Er , it 's not a funding system that er that we would choose to work under , we would want to keep the rents as low as possible er , but it 's one that 's set by central government through the housing corporation and that we have to live with . |
| 21 | So it 's caused by foetal position and there 's something that can make it worse , you know the mother erm inside erm the womb there 's a bag of fluid that the baby floats in |
| 22 | Yeah place , nice place , oh it 's run by National Car Park , N C P , National Car Parks |
| 23 | Now as th this weak bou bonding 's overcome by biological processes to actually produce solid calcium carbonate in skeletons , now as that skeletal material sinks down through the water column , it moves out of the region of super-saturation and begins to dissolve . |
| 24 | It 's a disease that 's characterised by fatiguable muscle weakness . |
| 25 | It 's prompted by therapy sessions , it 's prompted by other kinds of tastes and feelings and ideas . |
| 26 | Erm , usually um action is prompted by well it 's prompted by various things . |