Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can reveal that ministers will come under increasing pressure from a range of new research on the plight of elderly people , who are widely beaten , tormented or robbed by relatives or carers . |
| 2 | One such is biliary colic induced or aggravated by morphine used to treat biliary colic . |
| 3 | His eyes were brown and dulled by drugs , his temperature , and anxiety . |
| 4 | The present chapel was built by William Middleton in 1825 and opened by Bishop Peter Baines on May 18th. 1825 . |
| 5 | A community bureau on a council estate will be favoured by some but rejected by others on the grounds of lack of anonymity . |
| 6 | Wittgenstein , Ludwig ( 1890–1981 ) One of the most brilliant of twentieth century philosophers , Wittgenstein was destined to be one of the most quoted and misquoted by theologians . |
| 7 | Millones ( 1982 ) believes that the value of the soil as a resource was fully acknowledged by the Incas and is reflected in the many thousands of hectares that were contour terraced and irrigated by water stored in artificial lakes ( chochas ) . |
| 8 | Betty had embarrassed her exceedingly because , seeing that the Molesworths were dismayed and repelled by Lydia 's uncompromisingly exotic appearance , she had explained that Lydia was a most brilliant journalist . |
| 9 | He may be shy and intimidated by school . |
| 10 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 11 | Remember that whenever either a conveyance , lease or transfer defines the land by reference to a plan attached to the document , the plan must be signed ( sealed and attested by director and secretary in the case of a company ) by all parties — except that the conveyancer for buyers can sign on their behalf if they state the capacity in which they sign it : " solicitor for the transferee . " |
| 12 | Genomic DNA from a somatic cell hybrid containing a human X chromosome ( GM06318 ) and a radiation hybrid ( RH 128 ) containing approximately 10% of a human X chromosome , including DNA markers spanning the IP1 X-chromosomal translocation breakpoints within Xp11.21 ( 2 ) , was digested with Sfi I and fractionated by PFGE . |
| 13 | To recover the 660 kb Sfi I fragment containing locus DXS14 , RH 128 DNA ( 30 µg ) was digested with Sfi I and fractionated by PFGE . |
| 14 | According to the study , cats were shot , poisoned and snared by people who look after game birds . |
| 15 | There is some doubt about the circumstances of Molla Yegan 's death , to which reference will be made in due course , but it may be remarked here that while el-Kefevi is possibly right at least about the rough date of Molla Yegan 's death , the slightest suspicion attaches to the basis for his statement by reason of the fact that his words ( if not their order ) are practically identical with Taskopruzade 's statement about the death of Molla Taj al Din Ibrahim , known as Khatib-zade ( Hatibzade ) : Hatibzade and Molla Yegan are associated in an anecdote related by Taskopruzade in the biography of the former but included by el-Kefevi in the biography of Molla Yegan . |
| 16 | When children are thirteen or fourteen instead of being excited and stimulated by subjects such as physics and chemistry , they 're bored by them , and many of the brightest minds turn away to history or english , the arts and humanities . |
| 17 | New South Promenade was the last major extension to the Blackpool system , completed on 2 October 1926 and opened by Lord Derby . |
| 18 | In an internal document issued on Dec. 14 and discovered by police during a raid in February , the leadership of ETA rejected arguments from within the organization to the effect that the armed struggle was lost , was senseless and was damaging the Basque nationalist left , and that ETA must face up to defeat . |
| 19 | The place is experienced as an accumulation of its pasts , a wreck like those whose flotsam litters its shores and provides the walls and furniture and windows of one of its villages , described by the English travellers Joseph and Henry Bullar in 1841 and revisited by Tabucchi 140 years later ( 29 ) . |
| 20 | She was all pale green and chestnut , with an emerald blaze at her throat ; I roamed her face , from the bursting curve of her forehead to the plum-dent of her chin ; her cheeks , so often pallid , were brushed with the pink of a Tiepolo dawn , though whether the brush was external and garaged in her handbag or internal and wielded by ecstasy , I was unable or unwilling to guess ; her mouth was besieged by a half-smile which seemed to last and last ; her eyes were her lustrous dowry . |
| 21 | The use of authority is not arbitrary but governed by rules . |
| 22 | Lord Taylor said the assaults on Donna King aged twenty six were not carried out in rage , they were coolly deliberate and inflicted by way of punishment . |
| 23 | The town of Bendery was taken by Moldovan forces on June 20 but recaptured by Dnestr separatists the following day . |