Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] by the " in BNC.

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1 The pioneering work started at North Road by Mr Wolfe is still carried on today by the Railway Preservation Society .
2 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 .
3 He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Distribution of United Distillers brands in New Zealand is carried out principally by the Magnum Corporation .
7 In contrast to this , all inputs to a process are carried out automatically by the IPC type expert system without consulting a human operator .
8 This mapping may be carried out automatically by the DBMS ; indeed there may not be any options open to the user .
9 No investigation is known to have been carried out either by the Indian or Sri Lankan authorities .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In the traditional mental test , for example , questions are given orally and are supposed to be carried out mentally by the pupils .
15 Today 's mission was the first to be carried out entirely by the British army .
16 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 .
17 Drilling and circulation experiments have been carried out there by the Camborne School of Mines .
18 Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone .
19 It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press .
20 The bill of exchange is written out initially by the seller who becomes the drawer .
21 Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction .
22 Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS .
23 Thus the church and its site were purchased for £20,000 in 1979 by Waverly District Council , while the adjacent church hall was sold off separately by the local diocese for conversion into two small private dwellings .
24 He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million .
25 These stones , contrasting in shape and colour and radiating light , are shown off admirably by the severe but wearable linear design .
26 Sparked off undoubtedly by the announcement that chairman and m.d .
27 Third , there is the issue of the party manifesto for a general election and the idea that this should no longer be drawn up just by the leader on the basis of informal consultations .
28 The ordinary annual grant for restoration will be used up partly by the Laboratorio del Restauro in Palazzo Barberini , which recently restored Correggio 's Borghese ‘ Danae ’ , and partly by the needs of the five other museums which the Soprintendenza is responsible for : the Gallery in Palazzo Barberini , the Spada Gallery , the Corsini Gallery , the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Borghese Gallery .
29 It was ‘ a spit in the ocean ’ which would be wiped out immediately by the increased costs of fuel and transport , they said .
30 Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home .
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