Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 2 | The pioneering work started at North Road by Mr Wolfe is still carried on today by the Railway Preservation Society . |
| 3 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 4 | His nose began to water , and the grime from his lips was carried slowly downwards by the fluid in two , dirty streams which he made no effort to check . |
| 5 | The astonishingly monochrome , synthetic quality of the set is modified only occasionally by the saturating splashes of blood-sachets , perfunctorily punctured over the bodies of the slain . |
| 6 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 7 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 8 | On the other hand , public relations is often looked down on by the media as messengers with stories that hold no interest and which will be presented in the wrong way at the wrong time and in the wrong situation . |
| 9 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 10 | In the early period , the designation ‘ middle ’ marked out an intermediate place between the industrial proletariat and servant classes on the one hand , and the landed and financial aristocracy on the other — a place occupied not only by the rising industrial and commercial bourgeoisie , but also by the traditional professions and the civil servants , clerks and school teachers . |
| 11 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 12 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 13 | Posture is constrained not only by the physical dimensions of the work-space but also by the need to be in a position to see certain events and to feel others through control operations or machine movement . |
| 14 | These new principles of greater kindness towards horses continued , despite the many advocates of cruel practices which were recommended not only by the Neopolitan School but also by other influential writers on the Continent and in England . |
| 15 | Major was understood to want to prevent the Commonwealth Conference in Harare in October from being dominated once more by the sanctions issue . |
| 16 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 17 | Distribution of United Distillers brands in New Zealand is carried out principally by the Magnum Corporation . |
| 18 | In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator . |
| 19 | This mapping may be carried out automatically by the DBMS ; indeed there may not be any options open to the user . |
| 20 | No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities . |
| 21 | Currently , external course assessment is carried out either by the organization providing the course , or by individual users for the benefit of their own authorities . |
| 22 | In a smaller agency many of these tasks are carried out either by the managing director , the finance department or a general manager , with help where necessary from other members of other departments . |
| 23 | In the rest of the UK , these functions are carried out separately by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and a variety of awarding bodies . |
| 24 | The current research is being carried out jointly by the Hydrogeology and Fluid Processes groups in cooperation with the Soil Science Department of the University of Reading . |
| 25 | In the traditional mental test , for example , questions are given orally and are supposed to be carried out mentally by the pupils . |
| 26 | Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army . |
| 27 | Among other things , this established the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England ( HBMC ) which has taken over many of the functions formerly carried out directly by the DoE . |
| 28 | Drilling and circulation experiments have been carried out there by the Camborne School of Mines . |
| 29 | Their little brother had fallen in and was being carried fast downstream by the current . |
| 30 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |