Example sentences of "by [noun pl] eager " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 2 | When other ships were sunk by icebergs he would be telephoned by newsmen eager for him to imagine the fate of the victims . |
| 3 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |
| 4 | Mr Borja , hounded by industrialists eager to protect domestic monopolies , is stalling . |
| 5 | Stored at Wroughton , on July 11 the following year , the airframe was struck off charge and joined a large number of Lancs that were pounced upon by scrapmen eager to turn them into saucepans . |
| 6 | Genetic screening , a legacy of the eugenics movement , was invented after the second world war and brought to medicine by eugenicists eager to ease public acceptance . |