Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large parts of West and South Middlesbrough are eaten up by the Langbaurgh and Stockton South constituencies . |
| 2 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 3 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 4 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 5 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 6 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 7 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 8 | Eighty per cent of the weight of a 450 gram standard SL is taken up by the ballast . |
| 9 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 10 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 11 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 12 | Once more Daisy was knocked out by the fecundity of everything , the blackthorn purple with sloes , plump hazel nuts already shredded by squirrels , elderberries shiny as caviar hanging like shower fittings from their crimson stems . |
| 13 | The eventual destruction of Jerusalem was brought about by the Romans to crush the rebellion of Bar Kokhba who was styled by the Akiba , the most famous rabbi of the time , as the Messiah . |
| 14 | Three times Cooke was pitched out by the pounding surf . |
| 15 | But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable . |
| 16 | Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding . |
| 17 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 18 | Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 19 | It is an ambitious project to undertake but ‘ LIFE ’ in York is spurred on by the knowledge of how badly women in York need our help to cope with a crisis pregnancy . |
| 20 | 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram . |
| 21 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 22 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 23 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 24 | Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine . |
| 25 | Firstly , counter-revolutionary forces on the continent , armed and trained ( particularly since the Cuban revolution ) by the pentagon , remain impressively strong , and in Central America are backed up by the threat of military action by the United States itself , as recent events in Nicaragua and El Salvador have reaffirmed . |
| 26 | To boost their works team , the management headhunted a host of England Amateur internationals , giving them factory floor jobs , before Briggs were taken over by the American car giants and their football ground was developed . |
| 27 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 28 | Poland was set up by the Allies to help subdue Germany , but was then criticised for taking German territory . |
| 29 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 30 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |