Example sentences of "place [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge stone carvings of Presidents ' faces at Mount Rushmore — which began to take shape following the routing of the Sioux in 1876 — overshadow the Pine Ridge reservation , a place plagued by an unemployment rate now at 82 per cent , an alcohol problem , numerous gambling dens and the inevitable resulting loss of young people to neighbouring cities . |
| 2 | It is when they first suffer for Christ that the earliest apostles return to their friends , pray ( not for safety but for boldness ) , and find the place shaken by the Holy Spirit ( Acts 4:29–31 ) . |
| 3 | If the basis of primary schools was now ( to quote Alec Clegg ) ‘ to help each child to walk into his future with firm steps and bright eyes ’ , the primary school classroom should not be a place dominated by the teacher but a place of mutual trust and co-operation . |
| 4 | The Sushumna seems to be in the effect place occupied by the spinal chord and the Ida and Pingala are similarly located along the main sympathetic nerves . |
| 5 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 6 | Thus the propositional schema " x is a man " can be appropriately filled in by inserting a proper name , say " Jones " , in the place occupied by the variable , yielding a meaningful proposition whose truth-value happens to be true . |
| 7 | Such an order would impinge upon the operation of the organisation ; it would prevent the International Tin Council from having its Headquarters in the place stipulated by the treaty , and its members would be unable to perform their treaty obligations . |
| 8 | It was on the slope of the gardens in a tiny old place built by the previous ( Qajar ) dynasty . |
| 9 | I was still in a place washed by the waters which had thundered off Tonga , where there was a king with a nation of Brobdingnagian subjects , a million pigs and a tradition of wearing clothes made of pandanus leaves and coconut string . |
| 10 | Aspinall , who scored against Grimsby , is a contender , with Darryl Powell and possibly Steve Wigley , for the place vacated by the injured Mark Chamberlain . |
| 11 | This major rearrangement of the aircraft will enable the RAFM to reposition some of the existing aircraft , for example , the Fairey Battle will occupy the place vacated by the Hudson and there will be a general shuffle around with the Proctor and C.30A autogiro . |
| 12 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 13 | The shoot takes place accompanied by the inevitable sequence of bacon butties , coffee , tea and cakes . |
| 14 | The inevitable result was over-capacity in the market place followed by a vicious price war . |
| 15 | Any place struck by a bolt of lightning was considered sacred to him . |
| 16 | The centre is a friendly place run by the Williams family and is open all year except December . |
| 17 | She felt certain that he intended her no harm and her fear began to recede , its place taken by a surge of excitement and anticipation . |
| 18 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |
| 19 | It is a place covered by a cloud . ’ |
| 20 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 21 | At least two ‘ campaigns ’ are now up-and-running offering to fill the place held by the demised Vulcan Association ( VA ) . |