Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years , two quarrying companies based in Somerset — Foster Yeoman and ARC — have used their own wagons and locomotives — driven and maintained by BR staff — to haul millions of tons of stone across Britain . |
| 2 | On the left is the first tenement block to be built in Prague in 1813–47 and designed by J. Hausknecht . |
| 3 | His eyes were brown and dulled by drugs , his temperature , and anxiety . |
| 4 | Such systems usually comprise rows of back-to-back adjustable pallet racking up to 12 metres high and separated by gangways as little as 1.2 metres wide — and rarely more than 1.9 metres wide . |
| 5 | One , seldom more than three feet high and called by Ray the Dwarf Red Rose , had small flowers and rounded buds which before opening appeared ‘ as if they had been clipp 'd with Scissars ’ . |
| 6 | Paris House — the horse — is two years old and trained by Jack Berry at Cockeram , Lancashire , Chandler cautioned fellow chefs against betting on Paris House in the future , for fear that he could lose a lot of friends ! |
| 7 | Walk north to Tintern where you 'll see the impressive ruins of the Cistercian Abbey , built in 1131 and destroyed by Henry VIII in 1536 during the dissolution of the monasteries . |
| 8 | Over 500 cricket clubs from 32 counties are being invited to enter a knockout competition , commencing in September and progressing through six rounds , quarter and semi-final stages to a grand final to be held at Lord 's Cricket Ground in April 1993 and chaired by Brian Johnston — ably assisted by Tim Rice and Bill Franklyn as team captains . |
| 9 | Over 150 singers appear in this superb retrospective , assembled and engineered by Keith Hardwick , which prompts the thought that given current prices at the Royal Opera House , I would gladly exchange almost any performance for one of these volumes . |
| 10 | The discrediting of the post-war system in the late 1960s and 1970s , discussed in Chapter 2 and charted by Leys ( 1983 , Ch. 5 and 6 ) , was also reflected in the position of local government within it . |
| 11 | Murray Perahia 's versions of Mozart 's Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 27 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe ( as screened by BBC 2 and released by Sony ) were the cat 's whiskers . |
| 12 | Apart from the above conditions , the externally intermediated currency , e.g. dollar , DM , Sw.Fr. , etc. , must be reasonably sound and held by non-residents in substantial amounts for trading and investment purposes . |
| 13 | Nothing that makes you happier than a child 's Christmas toy , bought in the land of plenty , broken and forgotten by Christmas night , discarded , swept up , thrown away ; some unbiodegradable bit of plastic , moulded into partial or sentimental shape . |
| 14 | Some years ago , broken and wounded by others , and deeply convinced of my own self-concealing sinfulness , I cried out to God in the words of one of the psalms : |
| 15 | The long façades of these redbrick buildings were adorned with Mughal arches ; the interiors were provided with airy loggias and wide verandas , from which sprang a whole succession of open towers adorned with lattice-work and capped by domes of varying sizes . |
| 16 | On Nov. 27 the government banned the neo-Nazi Nationalist Front , an organization with 130 members , founded in 1985 and led by Meinholf Schönborn , 36 . |
| 17 | We are all turned into addicts of medicine as every stage of human life from pregnancy and childbirth to old age and dying becomes colonised and labelled by medicine . |
| 18 | The face -mask was rigid and attached by rivets , the neckguard and cheek-pieces hinged by strips of leather strengthened by bronze bars and riveted . |
| 19 | The present chapel was built by William Middleton in 1825 and opened by Bishop Peter Baines on May 18th. 1825 . |
| 20 | It is a mineralised breccia pipe in Cambrian sediments consisting of angular fragments veined and cemented by chalcopyrite , pyrite and quartz ( Allen and Easterbrook , 1978 ; MRP 29 ) . |
| 21 | Rudi Anton Bali , who was born on 8 December 1979 and bred by Mr and Mrs Radcliffe . |
| 22 | Developed and presented by Dr Solomon |
| 23 | Developed and Conducted by Howard Dowding |
| 24 | Developed and designed by Austin , Texas-based Ross , under the watchful eyes of Sun Microsystems Inc engineers , the superscalar , superpipelined HyperSparc begins life as a 66.7MHz unit delivering 70 SPECmarks ( 55 SPECint , 64 SPECfp ) , 133 MIPS and 32 MFLOPS , compared to the 50 SPECmarks of Texas ' initial 40MHz Viking CPU . |
| 25 | When later in 1823 he was once again arrested for debt , he watched fellow debtors in King 's Bench Prison perform a mock election which became the subject of a famous painting exhibited in 1828 and bought by George IV for £500 — ‘ baronets , and bankers , authors and merchants , painters and poets , dandies of rank in silk and velvet and dandies of no rank in rags and tatters , idiotism and insanity , poverty and affliction , all mingled in indiscriminate merriment , with a spiked wall twenty feet high above their heads ! ’ |
| 26 | The North was to be Communist in ideology , and led by Ho Chi Minh and the South non-Communist and led by President Diem . |
| 27 | ( Joseph ) A petition for a new home , submitted by Joseph in December 1877 and endorsed by Captain Randall at Fort Leavenworth , was disapproved by Sherman . |
| 28 | It felt inappropriate that my introduction to live sex was wholly voyeuristic and accompanied by images from Looney Tunes . |
| 29 | It 's voluptuous actresses — even more beautiful than you all are — hand-picked and caressed by Pyke ! |
| 30 | On Feb. 7 the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Violence and Intimidation , established in October 1991 and chaired by Appeals Court Judge Richard Goldstone , published an interim report on an investigation into the killing of 19 people by Inkatha supporters at Mooi River , near Durban , in December 1991 . |