Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 2 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 3 | The study found that the subsequent increase in tax revenue during the period to 1985/6 could be explained mostly by factors such as employment growth , growth of earnings and growth of self-employment rather than by any ‘ incentive ’ effects . |
| 4 | Methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate ( dUMP ) to deoxythymidine-5'-monophosphate ( dTMP ) , catalysed by thymidilate synthetase , is the paradigmatic case of a reaction that proceeds via a covalent adduct , formed reversibly by Michael addition of the enzyme to the C 5 -C 6 double bond of its pyrimidine substrate ; for a review see Pogolotti and Santi ( 1 ) . |
| 5 | The idea of using chemiluminescence has now been developed commercially by Amersham International . |
| 6 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 7 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 8 | You 're soft on those who 've been treated badly by life — and if you 're not very careful it might well be you . ’ |
| 9 | Both Kasparov and 27-year-old Short , the first British player in the championship final this century , said they rejected the earlier £1.2 million bid from Manchester because they said they were not consulted properly by FIDE . |
| 10 | There was a long pause broken eventually by Rose . |
| 11 | There was a rather sombre silence for a few seconds , broken eventually by Maidstone who said : ‘ Right ! |
| 12 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 13 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 14 | Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium . |
| 15 | I think it 's also entertainment the excellent wage of services placed on by Harlow Council . |
| 16 | Across the border in North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic within Russia ) , a group of Russian " volunteers " had arrived in late February in the regional capital , Vladikavkaz , according to the Georgian daily Sakartvelos Respublika of Feb. 27 , ostensibly to " protect Russia 's southern borders " , and a small number of these " volunteers " , apparently unarmed , had travelled on by helicopter to Tskhinvali , the South Ossetian capital . |
| 17 | In addition , small group music lessons have been arranged separately and are being given mostly by student-trainers . |
| 18 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 19 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 20 | When Fanny died in Florence in 1866 , shortly after giving birth to their only son , the brooch was engraved with a memorial inscription and passed on by Hunt to her sister , Edith , who came out to Italy to look after the baby . |
| 21 | In 1967 , a parliamentary commissioner was established to investigate complaints passed on by Members of Parliament about maladministration in government departments . |
| 22 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 23 | This is the continuance of Thatcher 's truth , passed on by Major and his gang of incompetents . |
| 24 | BALDNESS can be caused by ringworm from a fungi passed on by pet budgies , dogs and cats , says an Australian hair expert . |
| 25 | There 's Tufnell again passed on by John Hampshire , bowling in sweeps that , he gets it away very fine indeed , he 's running right underneath us here , he gets to the ball now , you can almost hear his footsteps , past the and a good return , and has two . |
| 26 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 27 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 28 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 29 | This fore like SWAPO 'S , was supposed to be confined to its bases by April 1st and disbanded altogether by May 13th . |
| 30 | Optional Excursions and any charges made locally by hotels or others for a la carte dishes , entertainment , sporting amenities and equipment , and telephone connection charges . |