Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead of her the canal turned in a broad left-hand sweep , its line dominated by trees until it disappeared beneath the parapet of a bridge . |
| 2 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
| 3 | The political right is attracted by workfare because it resents the idea that people might be paid by the state to do nothing . |
| 4 | BELOW : Millend was gutted by fire when it was a maltings . |
| 5 | " I felt threatened by Marxism because it was the doctrine of a friend , and because it cut across our friendship " , noted Sartre . |
| 6 | It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine . |
| 7 | Providing his standards and requirements are met , he 'll get the cleaning done by outsiders if it 's cheaper . |
| 8 | Interestingly the blue metal deposit , cobalt , was so named by miners because it was useless and troublesome , reminding them of harassment suffered at the hands of these GOBLINS . |
| 9 | The establishment of reserves to protect wildlife was accepted by hunters when it became clear that some species would soon be wiped out altogether . |
| 10 | This should put a stop to the sort of attempt made by Hanson after it had successfully taken-over Imperial . |
| 11 | There is no evidence that zinc metal was ever prepared in Africa — it has to be made by condensation since it volatilises before it can be reduced from the ore . |
| 12 | The latest sell-offs are in line the promises made by TI when it took the group over last year . |
| 13 | Heavy rains at the beginning of June alleviated the problem only partly , since much of the water evaporates or is used by plants before it can seep through to replenish aquifers . |
| 14 | For those who might argue that this information comes from ‘ the industry ’ it should be pointed out that such data have to be approved by government before it is issued . |
| 15 | ‘ The Political Parties should join with us as Trade Unions in tackling the lethargy shown by employers when it comes to job creation . |
| 16 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 17 | It was his own insistence — ‘ Life , ’ he wrote in his authorized biography , ‘ is too short to be bound by regulations when it is n't absolutely necessary . ’ |
| 18 | The main street , the Decumanus Maximus is bordered by tombs until it reaches the city gate . |
| 19 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |
| 20 | Damaged by customs when it arrived in Iran , it has remained unrestored and in storage since the Revolution . |
| 21 | Helium ( He ) has been detected by spacecraft though it has such a weak spectral signature that its abundance has been estimated by indirect means . |
| 22 | Their power to do justice will become more restricted by law than it need be , or is today . |
| 23 | This database will be protected by copyright because it has required skill and judgment in the design of the structure of the database ( that is , number and type of fields and their lengths ) and in the selection of the information to be entered . |
| 24 | This is often confused with a lot of idealistic nonsense about the inevitability of progress , often coupled with ignorant nonsense about evolution " violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics " ( those that belong to the half of the educated population that , according to the novelist C. P. Snow , know what the Second Law is , will realize that it is no more violated by evolution than it is violated by the growth of a baby ) . |
| 25 | It is a system opposed by CAMRA as it interferes with the natural processes of beer maturation . |
| 26 | But it was opposed by Beijing since it required the Pol Pot group supported by China to lay down its arms . |
| 27 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
| 28 | A slow down in the bathroom business — identified by MB when it announced its results last week — affected City confidence in Caradon . |
| 29 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski declared that he would not , however , resign unless the 1992 budget , to be presented on March 23 [ see below ] , was rejected by parliament when it was debated in April . |