Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 2 | I can see Lou Reed and Keith Richards playing one , and I suspect that some of the current Indie bands , champions of retro-style , could easily find themselves bewitched by the New York . |
| 3 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |
| 4 | The labour movement bewitched by the enemy , bothered and bewildered by the passivity " of the people , waits like Micawber for something to turn up . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 6 | She went on , somehow bewitched by the enchantment of the surroundings into feeling totally relaxed . |
| 7 | ‘ This one cost only 25,000 dollars , which is incredible for something sired by a champion sprinter . ’ |
| 8 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 9 | Of the systems of proportional representation , the one favored by the Liberal Party and the Electoral Reform Society is the single transferable vote ( STV ) system . |
| 10 | For a brief period of one year , 1977-1978 , the Labour government of James Callaghan entered into a Pact with the Liberal parliamentary party : in return for voting support in the House of Commons ( necessary to maintain its majority ) , the government modified certain policies of its own and introduced certain measures favored by the Liberals . |
| 11 | After a few moments she had relaxed fully , her apprehension shrivelled by the atmosphere of friendliness and laughter . |
| 12 | The force put through the footrest is more difficult to see — until you check out the soles of a GP star 's racing boots — which invariably boast great holes gouged by the footpegs . |
| 13 | Mohammed Ali Samater , was sworn in on Feb. 17 by President Mohammed Siyad Barre , replacing that dismissed by the President in January [ see p. 37174 ; for previous full listing see p. 36757 ] . |
| 14 | The Rancher President , who had carried a gun for the sake of the movie camera , nearly perished by the gun . |
| 15 | The House of Representatives began debating the legislation on June 4 by defeating alternative bills , one of which was supported by Bush and another proposed by a group of black legislators . |
| 16 | In the 1970s and 1980s , Otmoor has been the controversial subject of vigorous campaigns fought against both a motorway and an extensive drainage scheme for the river Ray proposed by the Thames Water Authority . |
| 17 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 18 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 19 | By the early twentieth century , paleontologists were promoting a coherent model of evolution that differed significantly from that proposed by the early Darwinians . |
| 20 | The first of these men was Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , founder of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) , who initially established contact with the Comintern and whose model was in fact not dissimilar to that proposed by the Soviet theorists , although he differed greatly on questions of strategy and tactics . |
| 21 | There would be 12 judges ( six from the Czech Lands and six from Slovakia ) appointed by the President upon the proposal of the Federal Assembly Presidium , having been chosen from 24 proposed by the legislative bodies ( eight by the federal and eight by each national parliament ) . |
| 22 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 23 | The working party prepared written submissions drawing comparisons between the Bar 's training and that proposed by the Law Society but taking account of the experience solicitors would be likely to have had in the lower courts . |
| 24 | A road from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is to be built as part of the project , providing a link to the proposed A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 25 | A new road running from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is also to be built , eventually providing a link to A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 26 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 27 | The bees could learn the smell of the food from the sample regurgitated by the discoverer . |
| 28 | Tony , 37 , bursts into a plush restaurant where Sharon , 41 , is being wined and dined by a romantic Italian rival for her affections . |
| 29 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 30 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |