Example sentences of "by [noun] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller , but equally welcome amounts of money have changed hands for pieces of driftwood and other finds worked on by artists and later sold to tourists . |
| 2 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 3 | If they had said no help would be forthcoming and no stock of food had been set aside and no extraordinary public works would be undertaken , they might have provided all three by stealth and so avoided a great nuisance . |
| 4 | She was educated at home by governesses and later attended schools in France and Germany as well as Queen 's College , Harley Street . |
| 5 | Very ancient grains — carbonified by cooking and therefore preserved — are investigated individually . |
| 6 | Where the conviction is murder the sentence is determined by Parliament and simply pronounced by the judge . |
| 7 | The exact amount is decided by Parliament and usually revised each year to take account of the rise in prices . |
| 8 | Those who believe Gerstner is a good choice for IBM point to his skill at cutting corporate expenses and willingness to pare payrolls , implying that IBM is a good but bloated company and conveniently forgetting that Akers cut IBM 's payroll by 25% and still ended up with unacceptable results . |
| 9 | In 1966 he suggested the formation of the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee : a body of twelve loyalists chaired by Paisley and quickly nicknamed ‘ the twelve disciples ’ . |
| 10 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 11 | It is from Zakarpatská Ukrajina , the Czech Ukraine or sub-Carpathian Ruthenia , first annexed by Hungary and later taken by the Soviet Union and never given back at the end of the war in 1945 . |
| 12 | They found seats side by side and silently agreed to talk no more about the tragedy . |
| 13 | But religious music was composed in France largely by Huguenots and therefore limited to little other than psalms . |
| 14 | The church doorway is splendid , flanked by columns and elegantly arched , a neat balcony above it , set in an elaborate second tier , the whole under a triangular gable section . |
| 15 | These are the subsidence theory originally put forward by Darwin and strongly supported by Davis , and the Glacial Control theory advocated by Daly . |
| 16 | Yet , in many ways , events have created a similar situation : a town abandoned by humanity and then preserved by natural forces until excavation in modern times . |
| 17 | Thus if A loses his goods , which are found by B and then converted by C , both B and A might bring successive claims against C. If B accounts to A under section 7(3) , A must then reimburse C. |
| 18 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 19 | In the Abdaly region of northern Kuwait there are some 156 farms which are separated by desert and thus exposed to sandstorms , where metal wind-breaks and shelter-belts have not prevented sand encroachment , largely as Al-Nakshabandi and El-Robee have suggested , due to poor management . |
| 20 | Traditional football had been an expression of male prowess and village pride sanctioned by custom and loosely supervised by adults . |
| 21 | The judge held that the plaintiff had not been entitled to re-enter without execution by warrant and accordingly awarded the defendant damages on the counterclaim . |
| 22 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 23 | Here Zande clearly exemplify the principle , enunciated by Tacitus and endlessly repeated by modern psychiatrists , that it is a basic characteristic of the human mind to hate the man you have injured . |
| 24 | For him , the worst possible outcome was not the one feared by republicans and dutifully recorded in his memoirs — a coup followed by a protracted civil war between the army and a communist-led Popular Front . |
| 25 | I 'm sure everyone 's familiar with the roundback or bowl design pioneered by Ovation and successfully used by them in their electro-acoustic guitars . |
| 26 | The technique of introducing a steam re-heat cycle ( in which steam is extracted from the turbine at an intermediate stage , raised to a higher temperature and reintroduced into the lower pressure stage ) had been pioneered in Britain by consultants and widely adopted in America . |
| 27 | They spoke frequently by phone and soon found reasons to meet , often at the homes of friends . |
| 28 | First comes the Theological Library ( 1671–9 ) , by Orsi and again decorated by Nosecký , the in-house painter , between 1723 and 1727 . |
| 29 | But the incident at the US-controlled airport illustrated continuing security problems in a city ravaged by conflict and still stalked by muggers . |
| 30 | The group was built from nothing by Gedge and brilliantly nurtured without the sickening prevarication involved in most of pop 's success stories . |