Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red Lion Square , covering about half an acre at the most , and mostly taken up by the Great North Road , represents just the shrunken remains of a market place that once covered about five times that area . |
| 2 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 3 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 4 | There is usually no way of enforcing attendance , so such threats have to be taken seriously , and perhaps worked through by paying special attention to their particular feelings and needs . |
| 5 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 6 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 7 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 8 | But there were indications that Mr Gorbachev feels compromised and personally let down by President Bush after their talks in Malta earlier this month , when both leaders undertook to consult on actions that could undermine international stability . |
| 9 | So Deborah went with Farmer Plant and was washed and generally cleaned up by the motherly farmwife . |
| 10 | All electric fencing requires regular attention to ensure the system is ‘ alive ’ and not earthed out by wet grass touching the wires . |
| 11 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 12 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 13 | A fox 's earth , long abandoned , and not taken over by birds or rabbits , provided the dumping-ground . |
| 14 | Because the other bit of rumour , and not passed on by his friend Jordan , none of it was , said that with one of the victims , the last , as yet not formally identified as Ephraim Humphreys , a teddy-bear had been found . |
| 15 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 16 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 17 | A similar amendment had been introduced in the Commons and quickly voted down by the government . |
| 18 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 19 | At different times , the town was well known for its stocking frame knitters , the substantial brick works at the Mythe , as well as , during the 19th century , its large brewery , originally founded by David Jones , and later taken over by Blizard and Colman . |
| 20 | This festival was linked in the East with the birth of Mithras and later taken over by the Christians by conveniently moving the birthday of Christ to this date . |
| 21 | William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher . |
| 22 | This appeal to the idea of analysing complex mental thoughts into constituent simples was made earlier by Gassendi , and also carried on by philosophers in later centuries . |
| 23 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 24 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
| 26 | When she was a girl of eight , she witnessed the horrors of war when Apley Castle was stormed and partially burned down by parliamentarian troops . |
| 27 | A similar ambivalence can be sensed in Uppercross Cottage : on the one hand , its windows can relieve a social occasion by allowing those under stress to admire the view and recover their composure ; on the other , the tendency of the younger generation to appear at those windows unannounced , and even to come in by them , suggests a social life that has become altogether too informal and erratic . |
| 28 | At times Great Chaos beasts find a way down to Avelorn from the Annulii and ravage the land , but they are swiftly and ruthlessly hunted down by the Everqueen 's would-be consorts in an effort to gain her favour . |
| 29 | The relay satellites , each of which can relay 300 million bits of information , or about five million words , per second , were needed to handle the massive flow of data collected and immediately beamed down by Spacelab 's instruments . |
| 30 | After cleaning , it was displayed in the department and immediately snapped up by an excited young Australian . |