Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government attributed the crash to a technical fault , but foreign diplomats speculate that the helicopter was shot down by a Blowpipe . |
| 2 | The Guardian , The Observer and The Sunday Times are seeking a ruling that temporary injunctions handed down by a 3-2 House of Lords majority in 1987 , banning publication of details from the memoirs of an ex-MI5 officer , Peter Wright , were unnecessary prior restraints on free speech that breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 3 | Both these films are somewhat stagey , but contemporary comment could be combined with visual fantasy , as is revealed by Cecil Hepworth 's The Perils of Modern Motoring ( 1905 ) , in which a policeman is left in a dismembered state after being mowed down by a car . |
| 4 | The second is put down by a another sacked minister , Mr George Walden , who opposes the bill in principle . |
| 5 | American banks will have to write down by a further 10–20% their medium- and long-term loans to Brazil and Argentina , increasing pressure on the second-quarter earnings of some of the big banks . |
| 6 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ they asked , like people do when somebody 's been knocked down by a bus and lying stretched out in the road . |
| 8 | A wreath of artificial poppies has been held down by a brick . |
| 9 | It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ . |
| 10 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 11 | After being talked down by a flying instructor last week , Mr Alan Anderson was said to be under sedation . |
| 12 | I do not rule out a Labour government , pinned down by a narrow majority , seeking to enact at least some of its social legislation through a supportive EC . |
| 13 | A woman died yesterday after being knocked down by a shoplifter fleeing with a £2.58 descaler . |
| 14 | Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home . |
| 15 | GOODS stolen from retailers accounted for 1.1 p.c. of turnover last year , down by a quarter compared with 1989 , according to the latest survey by accountants Touche Ross . |
| 16 | Joseph 's lodge was at the north of the camp , and one of his wives was cut down by a bullet while carrying her daughter to safety . |
| 17 | The horseman was , in fact , one of Miles ' Cheyenne scouts , and Looking Glass was cut down by a sharpshooter 's bullet ; the only warrior to die after the opening battle . |
| 18 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 19 | What visitors to Foxton now see , either from above or below , is a staircase series of two lock flights , separated half way down by a large passing pond , with intermediate side ponds stepping up the east side of the flight . |
| 20 | As the dog does so , he is taken down by a snatch on the lead . |
| 21 | Again , he is taken down by a very firm snatch of the lead . |
| 22 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 23 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 24 | Happily , the stories live on , such as the visiting sportsman who , when boasting about his prowess with the gun , was easily put down by a local crofter : ‘ Man , that is nothing . |
| 25 | Get run down by a tram to-morrow — |
| 26 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 27 | This was possible because demand went down by a quarter and new supplies were available from the UK North Sea . |
| 28 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 29 | McClellan feels that the advantages to the librarian of this arrangement are that he is able to exercise constantly all his professional skills and avoid being bogged down by a heavy burden of administrative routine . |
| 30 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |