Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |
| 2 | Moreover , unlike the clause in Cade the terms had never been negotiated or agreed by any trade association on behalf of farmers . |
| 3 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 4 | Metal products and refined oil are exported or moved by coastal shipping . |
| 5 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 6 | The vagaries of French history in the following decades meant that the principle of parliamentary control was ignored or rejected by successive regimes . |
| 7 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 8 | Opponents lucky enough to escape Malawi to live in exile have sometimes been hunted down and assassinated or abducted by Malawian agents in Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 9 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 10 | The Auvergnat evidence , thus , shows us bishops in context , some managing to dominate their diocese , others at odds with their clergy , or hampered by secular figures , most clearly by the outsider Chramn . |
| 11 | Thus , making use of the abbreviation dB for decibel , when , for example , the power is said to be modified by and when , the modification of power is described as An alternative expression of the power change in these two cases would be that the power is reduced or attenuated by +20 dB and +6 dB respectively . |
| 12 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 13 | The ore/gangue mixture was cobbed or spalled by young women seated at anvils , holding the piece in one hand and beating it with a hammer . |
| 14 | He began to drop his head to find her parted lips , and McAllister , who was prey to the most extraordinary and conflicting emotions , one part of her welcoming a kiss from Dr Neil , whom she loved , a kiss which she knew would be passionate , the other part hating and fearing being held or touched by any man , including him , said breathlessly , ‘ No , you should n't . |
| 15 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 16 | 5 Support etc The rights of light air support protection shelter and all other easements and rights now or after the date of this Lease belonging to or enjoyed by other parts of the Centre The following proviso should be added at the end of this paragraph : provided that such rights and easements shall not [ adversely ] or [ materially ] affect the Premises or the business being carried on therein |
| 17 | The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal , say the tail , in which case the response reappears in all its original strength . |
| 18 | Other towns in the enclave were reported to have been shelled or stormed by Azerbaijani troops . |
| 19 | More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it . |
| 20 | Romero linked his readings with the reality of life in El Salvador and each week his sermon was followed by ‘ a reading of every documented case of persons who had been killed , assaulted , tortured or disappeared by any group on the left or the right ’ . |
| 21 | This indemnity shall not be prejudiced or waived by any exercise of our rights under Condition 3.3 . |
| 22 | Embalmers are additionally advised to wear a basic suit of some material which can be boiled or disinfected by chemical means , a cotton surgeons-type gown and a plastic protective apron as well as wellington-type non-slip and chemical proof boots of sufficient length that the plastic apron overlaps them . |
| 23 | That has I mean most of the welfare state has been er it 'll either created or extended by Conservative government so |
| 24 | Since remote sensing data sets ( especially those pertaining to terrestrial areas of the globe ) typically need much pre-processing to calibrate , transform and then perform an inference process and hence convert measurements of the radiation reflected or emitted by small areas of ground into useful ( e.g. land cover ) data , the processing power required is going to be formidable . |
| 25 | Letters are a record of what has or has not been agreed or said by various parties |
| 26 | Feminism 's attempts to explore the subjectivities of female subjects who are ignored or silenced by western discourses have led it to develop some methodological preferences of its own . |
| 27 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 28 | If the people of Leeds want a Labour Government to be returned to power , they can be sure that property in Leeds , particularly that sought by young people , will have devastatingly raised valuations . |
| 29 | As discrepancies may well overestimate the number of errors that actually occur in a trial ( for example , the electronic rather than the written record may be erroneous ) , the minimum estimate is that provided by retrospective completions alone — namely , 2% in the morning and 9% in the evening . |
| 30 | Kalugin 's Congress seat was that vacated by conservative hardliner Ivan Polozkov following his June election as first Secretary of the new Russian Federation Communist Party [ see p. 37539 ] . |