Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 2 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 3 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 4 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 5 | Even psychoanalysis , the field most criticized by other areas of psychology for its methodological irregularities , claims scientific credibility from its set rules of data collection and interpretation , and its large body of clinical material . |
| 6 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |
| 7 | However , government austerity policies and plans to reform the previously restricted economy by privatizing state monopolies and encouraging the private sector and international investment were bitterly criticized by organized labour , disaffected FLN traditionalists and opposition parties [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 9 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 10 | Tau-Taus , together with textiles and carved panels , are amongst the Toraja 's artistic products most coveted by ethnographic collectors . |
| 11 | Snow may also lie later in block screes ( which also tend to be located below north-facing slopes because they were mostly formed by freeze-thaw action ) . |
| 12 | The ‘ danger ’ is that natural processes are being fundamentally altered by human activities and , once begun , these changes can not be switched off . |
| 13 | It was subsequently badly damaged but the clumsy repair is skilfully disguised by deceptive restoration . |
| 14 | It is also clear that traditional syntheses between science and faith were badly shaken by new conceptions of nature . |
| 15 | All remaining seven patients with leakage or strictures , or both were successfully treated by endoscopic sphincterotomy only ( n=1 ) or sphincterotomy and subsequent stent placement ( n=6 ) . |
| 16 | A recent study describes 11 patients who had retroperitoneal perforation during ERCP and who were all successfully treated by conservative means . |
| 17 | Tucked away in a quiet part of the town , mostly inhabited by better-class salesmen and small businessmen , it was a second storey apartment . |
| 18 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 19 | In our view , this philosophy of partnership with clients , in which the primary caring role of the family is reasserted but effectively supplemented by public services , must be reintroduced into national policy and practice . |
| 20 | There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies . |
| 21 | Ron Amann , Professor of Soviet Politics , explains why , like other members of CREES , he is a little overwhelmed by recent events , but not entirely surprised … |
| 22 | In parallel with the fresh crusade directed at politicians in the present election run-up , the Fnac last week launched a F5m campaign aimed at young people , the section of the public the store group says is most discouraged by current book prices . |
| 23 | Bagehot said that Ash 's presentation of Mesmer 's belief in spiritual influences showed he was less rigorously confined by positive science than he now claimed to be . |
| 24 | The sale was to be financed by the flotation of around 30 per cent of the Commonwealth Bank , a proposal that was bitterly attacked by left-wing members of the ALP within the federal parliament . |
| 25 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 26 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 27 | The Northern state became wholly dominated by protestant loyalists and became extremely coercive in its dealings with the substantial catholic — nationalist remnant within its borders . |
| 28 | The Ethiopian government responded by pressing for airlifting of relief supplies to the Eritrean provincial capital , Asmara , effectively surrounded by rebel forces . |
| 29 | The existence of terra nullius was widely considered by Aboriginal groups to be a huge obstacle in the pursuit of land claims . |
| 30 | This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed . |