Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 2 | Rejecting the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Libya unless it hands over two men accused of carrying out the 1989 Lockerbie airliner bombing , Gaddafi said he would never surrender to demands by the United States and Britain . |
| 3 | It will aim to reduce duplication of services and its findings will be reported to ministers by the end of May . |
| 4 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 5 | At last , it was registering with Jimmy that Cardiff was not dead , not torn to pieces by the thing down there . |
| 6 | I threw away the guava core , and it too was torn to pieces by the children . |
| 7 | erm this passage , of course , about the savage clamour drowning both harp and voice , refers to the legend of Orpheus being torn to pieces by the Thrashian women , which Milton also uses in Lucidas . |
| 8 | However , the government removed the golden share protection in response to the Ford bid , 14 months before it was due to expire , and the Ford offer was finally recommended to shareholders by the Jaguar board . |
| 9 | Some 300 minshuku are recommended to foreigners by the Japanese National Tourist Office ( JNTO ) who also advise on pension selection . |
| 10 | In particular , the Khmer Rouge delegation had strongly objected to demands by the Phnom Penh government and the Vietnamese delegation that a sentence be included in the final statement referring to the " non-return of the genocidal policies and practices of the Pol Pot [ Khmer Rouge ] regime " . |
| 11 | According to studies by the Water Research Centre , PAHs leached from the insides of old London water mains are present at up to five times the EC limit of 0.2 ug/litre . |
| 12 | During 1990 average global temperatures were the highest since records began in the late 19th century , according to analyses by the Meteorological Office in the United Kingdom and by scientists from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) . |
| 13 | According to reports by the Soviet news agency Tass , fighting in Kabul itself abated on March 7 . |
| 14 | On Jan. 26 , according to reports by the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency , Israeli forces bombarded several villages in southern Lebanon , after a Hezbollah attack into the Israeli " security zone " in which one Israeli soldier was killed and another wounded . |
| 15 | According to reports by the Institute of Renewable Natural Resources and other non-governmental organizations , the annual deforestation rate has reached 80,000 hectares , threatening economic disaster , with rivers losing their depth and the sedimentation capacity of the Panama Canal severely reduced . |
| 16 | According to forecasts by the Paris-based OECD , the industrial countries ' economic think-tank , Austria 's GDP will fall by 0.4% in 1993 . |
| 17 | According to estimates by the Reserve Bank of India , GDP growth was expected to fall back to 5-6 per cent during 1989-90 . |
| 18 | According to estimates by the UN Commission , the UK would have to spend DM3,500 million a year to meet the new targets , or DM2,900 million more than it had planned . |
| 19 | Yet , according to calculations by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals , the two universities performed much as expected , given their subject mix . |
| 20 | When Murphy is shot to pieces by the sadistic Clarence Botticker ( Kurtwood Smith ) and his gang , he loses a hand and then an arm before finally being shot in the head . |
| 21 | Not everyone is moved to tears by the fate of vultures and wolves , but it is possible to think that the old crops of predators and scavengers were somehow more attractive than the new lot . |
| 22 | Luke , who knew the play backwards , had been moved to tears by the moonlit love scene between Lorenzo and Jessica . |
| 23 | Those who commission buildings rarely know what they want ; those who conceive grand plans see them reduced to ashes by the planning system . |
| 24 | With particular reference to agricultural odours advances have been made in odour abatement since the publication of the Working Party Report and for the best current practice on odour control reference should be made to reports by the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 25 | But , as Mates ( 1986 ) has pointed out , there is considerable doubt as to whether the banks have a legal right to such large claims against enterprises , since much of the foreign exchange supplied to enterprises by the banks was sold to them , not given on credit . |
| 26 | ( Typing paper must be supplied to candidates by the Local Centre . ) |
| 27 | ( Typing paper must be supplied to candidates by the Local Centre . ) |
| 28 | ( Typing paper must be supplied to candidates by the Local Centre . ) |
| 29 | Eight years later , punk rockers with honours degrees were going to concerts by The Jesus and Mary Chain — married to girls who worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art , or living with men who created ( or deconstructed ) advertising campaigns . |
| 30 | One of the hazards of going to games by the bus load is the tendency to drink beer by the gut load beforehand . |